Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1925 — Page 2

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LIGHT COMPANY EXTENDS LINES Hi EQUIPMENT Indianapolis Concern Expends $900,000 During Year, Officials Say. Improvements, extensions and construction work, involving' expenditure of almost $900,000, are being carried out by the Indianapolis Light and Keat Company this year, according to officials. During the first five months of the year $186,108.03 was expended in renewing and improving power equipment and putting in new equipment at the Mill St. and Kentucky Ave. stations. The program for the last seven months calls for expenditure of $882,630.24. A great part Os the work has consisted in laying permanent underground transmission lines in the downtown district. Electrical needs of the future are being anticipated officials said a necessary policy in a city which is increasing in area and population constantly. Including this year’s program the company by the end of the year will have expended more than $5,600,000 in various improvements and extensions during the past five years. HOLD-UPS REPORTED Police Learn of Thefts—Man Given Drink Awakes At Hospital Two hold-ups were reported to police Monday night. Harold Green, 309 Prospect St., told Lieut. Johnson that he and Miss Bertha Pointer, 3650 N. Capitol Ave. had just left his father’s home at 1693 E. Riverside Pkway, w-hen a large touring car pulled up. Two men got out, one held a gun and took $3.16 and some car tickets from Green. Guy McDowell, Xokomo, Ind., said he was sitting near the State House Saturday when a man offered him a drink. The next McDowell said he knew was when he woke up at City hospital minus his watch and $35. BONDSMEN FACE SUIT Reiny to Act Against Delinquents Within Thirty Days. Suits to collect more than SIO,OOO in unpaid fines stayed by professional and other bondsmen in city court will be instituted within thirty clays, Prosecutor William H. Remy said today. “The State board of accounts, through O. L. Hays and City Clerk John W. Rhodehamel, have called attention to this list,” he said. “I shall sue every bondsman and demand that city court judges refuse to accept these delinquents as bondsmen until every cent is paid.”

GAMING CHARGES MADE Police Squads Arrest Ten at W. Washington St. Address. Police squads under Lieutenant Jonej and Sergeant Nagelson surrounded a second-floor room at 546 W. Washington St., early today and arrested ten alleged gamblers. Varbian Bateflf, 23, was charged with keeping a dice game and the others visiting a gambling house and gaming. A. C. Davis, 29, of 1109 College Ave. was charged with keeping a gaming device. Police say he had baseball pool tickets. FLYING POLICE NEEDED Safety Board Puzzled On Air Ordinance Enforcement. How to enforc® the city ordinance that prohibits fliers other than Government aviators from passing over Indianapolis was discussed at a meeting of che board of safety today. Discussion arose when R. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent, sought permission to take air pictures of Indianapolis parks and boulevards. “Tell your aviator we couldn't catch him if we wanted to,” was the advice of board members. PATROLMAN’S WIFE DIES Mrs. James Frank to Be Buried Wednesday. Mrs. James Frank, 38, wife of Patrolmen Frank, died early today at her home, 1070 W. TwentySeventh St. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday at the residence, followed by burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. She was bom in Greensburg, Ky., and had lived here sixteen, years. FOUR ARE SENTENCED One Farm Tprm Suspended in Tiger Case. <k Four persons were convicted of operating a blind tiger, fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days at Indiana State Farm today in city court before Judge Dan V. White. Sentence was suspended bn payment of fine in the case of Hanna B. Means, 2150 E. ThirtyFourth St. Others convicted: Harry O’Haver, 415 N. Illinois St.; Fred Magsham, 306 N. Delaware St., and Horace Boyd, 1210 Lafayette St.

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SCHOOL HOUSING SITUATION GIVEN Johnson Assails Those Who Oppose Tax Increase. “The ‘little red school-house’ of twenty-five years ago was paradise compared to some of the schoolroom in w r hich Indianapolis school children are forced to attend classes,” declared Fred Bates Johnson, school board member, at a luncheon of the Scientech Club at the Chamber of Commerce Monday. “More than 7,500 Indianapolis school children are improperly housed,” he said, “Attending schools in one-room frame portables, poorly lighted, badly ventilated and insufficiently heated. Yet there are people in Indianapolis who oppose any increase in taxes whereby the. school-board may remedy the situation.” Johnson pointed out that grade

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Robert C. Baltzell today. Simon T. Hickman. deputy United States Marshal, w-as one of the Federal men who brought the liquor to Indianapolis, where it is stored In the basement of the Federal Bldg. United States Marshal Linus P.

school buildings are now being built from one-half to one-fifth the cost of building them eight or ten years ago. He assailed the Indiana Taxpayers Association for Its stand against any increase in taxes. BUILDERS SUE INDIANA Damages of 532,000 Sought by Construction Company. State of Indiana was named defendant in a suit for $32,000 damages filed in Superior Court Five today by the F. K. Vaughn Building Company of Ohio. Damages are alleged to have been incurred while constructing bridges for the State highway commission. Complaint alleged the company was forced to do extra work because of quicksand. CHARCOAL RUNS AUTO STOCKHOLM. July 28. — A gas made from charcoal by Swedish scientists now is being used successfully as a motor fuel.

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Meredith said he would begin pouring out the liquor at once, but that it would take some time to complete the job. The liquor will be poured in a sewer under the Federal Bldg., as the marshal’s men find opportunity to do the work.

BUS PETITIONS SET Two Hiner Pleas To Be Heard on Thursday and Friday. Petition of Hiner’s Red Ball bus lines to operate a beginning line between Indianapclis and West Lafayette will be heard on Thursday morning by Frank Wampler of the public service < ommission. The company’s original line was disallowed by the commission because of excessive speed. Frank Singleton of the commisKion will hear a Hiner application for a beginning line to Martinsville Friday- Beginners’ petition of the People’s Motor Coach Company to run La Hjm to Brightwood also will 'be fienml 'Thursday before Commissioner Clyde- H. Jones. Don’t Give Up t there is Quick Relief in SHAPLEY’S Original STOMACH MEDICINE Try it Todav, and be Convinced. HOOK’S DEPENDABLE DRUG STORES AND OTHER GOOD DRUG STORES.

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BUTLER CLAIMS HE IS WINNER IN VICE FIGHT Crime Cut Fifty Per Cent Under His Direction in Philadelphia. Bu Vnitcd Press PHILADELPHIA, July 28.—“ I’ve made it just twice as difficult for crooks and bawdy women to raise hell in Philadelphia as it was the day I took charge of the police department. “And yet, people are betting In the corridors of city hall, right outside my door, that I will be dismissed before night. Now the betting is sto 3 that I’ll be out within five days.” Gen. Smedley Butler of the Marines, now director of public safety of Philadelphia, thus summed up th i results of his administration to date, in an interview given the United Press. In a year and a half crime and vice have been cut 50 per cent, he said. General Butler, in shirt sleeves, sat at a big desk, littered with charts and sheets of paper covered with figures. Charts with zig-zag red and black lines showing the proportion of crimes to arrests, week by week, hung on the walls of his big room in city hall. Not Ready to Quit "There’s no truth in that story *hat I’ve given up Philadelphia as

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a. bad Job and that I’m ready to quit /at the end of another six months,” he said. “That’s all garbled-every thing I say is garbled, twisted, distorted, to suit the wets or drys, and the politicians. ‘My leave from the Marines expires at the end of another six months. After that, its up to the President of the United States, whether I stay here. He’s my boss. “I’ve been here since Jan. 1, 1924, so this is my second year and I’ve found out that the ’people of Philadelphia are no better and no worse than anybody else. The law can be enforced here, provided I have the tools to work w-ith. It’s the dishonest policeman who is my chief handicap. Many of the police are dishonest, and are looking for graft. Os course many of the policemen are very honest men. And again, some of the honest men are afraid. They know I’m only here temporarily, and they're afraid of what will happen to them after I’m gone. Honesty and courage don’t seem to go hand in hand. Bundle of Statistics The general reached for a bundle of statistical sheets, to show the trend of the war on crime. He spread them out, as he used to spread out-his war maps In the old marine days. And tracing a blunt finger down the columns, he showed that there were 478 holdups in the first six months of 1923, and only 185 in the first six months of 1925. In the first six months of 1923 property stolen (exclusive of automobiles) totaled $1,068,000; in the

first six months this year the total was $527,000. The automobile thefts have gone down to such an extent that two insurance companies which withdrew from Philadelphia, because the risk was too great, have re-entered this field. KAISER RAPS TREATY Wilhelm Thinks Versatile* Settlement “Must Be St-rapped.” r Jist.7. bn ( nUril Prvss The VersailUes treaty, in the opinion of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, “must be scrapped.” Behind the virtually impenetrable wall of Haus Doom, nestling in tho picturesque Dutch countrysldo beyond the borders of his former empire, Wilhelm has reached this firm conviction —and it is being strengthened day by day as he sees groups of nations armed to the teeth surrounding his disarmed Vaterland. Admiral Von Reubeur Paschwltz, who signs himself “acting chief of His Imperial Majesty’s household in Doom”, revealod his master's thoughts today in a cablegram to the United Press. MUST REMOVE TRACKS The State highway commission today decided to order the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Street Railway Company to remove its track - from Indianapolis Blvd., leading Into Chicago or have them removed by the commission. Refusal to remove tracks has blocked the commission’s plan to pave the thoroughfare. A delegation protested on the tracks.

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WIDOW REFUSES TO ENTER RACE Mrs. La Follette Favor of Son. Bit La ttrd Prrss WASHINGTON, July 28.—Mrs. Belle C’aso La Follette. widow of tho Into Wisconsin Independent leader, in ft statement issued here today, declined to enter the race for tho seat held by her husband In tho Senate and thereby opened the way for her son. Robert M. La Follette Jr, to become his father's successor. An announcement of young I* Follette’s Intention to seek election to the Senate, replacing his father, is expected from Madison, Wls, In la few days. HOTEL WOMAN DIES Mrs. Katherine M. Stout, 83, Rueminim at Daughter's Home. Mrs. Katherine M. Stout. 83. who kept a hotel at Trafalgar. Ind, for more than forty years, died Monday, at the home of “her daughter. Mrs. David Smith, 2417 Bellefontaine St. Sho was born at Wooster, Ind, and had lived here seven years. Three sons and three daughters survive. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, at 8 p. m. and burial Thursdny at Trafalgar.

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