Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1925 — Page 11

FRIDAY, JULY 31,1925

SCHMIDT URGED TO CARRY ROAD > FIGHTTOCOURT Former Chief State Board of Accounts Engineer Writes Letter. George G. Schmidt, Marion count} engineer, to-'uy was advised to take court action against the State highway commission for its action disapproving Schmidt’s road specifications, in a letter from A. L. Donaldson, of Evansville, former chief engineer for the State board of accounts. Chesleigh B. Gray, chief engineer for the highway commission, was discharged by Director John D. Williams because he upheld Schmidt’s specifications. Marion county gravel men contend the specifications prohibit the use of Marion Gounty gravel, and give an advantage to crushed stone as a road material. Contemplates Fight Schmidt said he still contemplated carrying the fight to the courts. The letter in part: ”1 have been reading the matter of conroversy in reference to your specifications for gravel, and am very much surprised at the action of the State highway commission. "If this rule of the highway commission was allowed to stand, it would resi It in a system of shoddy roads. . Many Disapproved r "During the eight years that I was chief engineer for the State board of accounts I was compelled to disapprove many specifications for the reason that they called for an inferior grade of gravel. “If I were you, I would fight the matter out with the highway commission. No court would sustain them in assuming such authority. I believe that it would do great good if your board of commissioners would have some disinterested engineer make and file with them a report on your specifications, which would sustain you in your action.” Protest Filed Twenty-eight property owners, living on the W. Morris St. road, between Holt and High School Rds., today filed a statement with the county commissioners, denying the road is in a deplorable condition as alleged to have been stated by Commissioner John McCloskey. The road, built of cement made of crushed stone is in excellent operation, the property owners said. JUDGE CONTINUES CASE Former Anderson Mayor 'Will Be Tried Aug. 14. Case of Jesse Mellett, 2461 Park Ave., former mayor of Anderson, Ind., arrested Wednesday for assault and batter after an auto crash an Meridian St. and Fall Creek Blvd., I will be heard in Judge Dan V. White’s city court Aug. 14, after continuance was granted Thursday. Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff said he would investigate the actions of Patrolman Forest Swank, who, according to witnesses, fled from Mellett’s auto after the collision.

PRISON HEAD SAVES BABIES FROM TAINT

By Eloise Walton “No babies born in this prison!” is the motto tof Miss Margare superintendent of the Woman’s State Prison and she has tried to stick to it religiously during her eleven years as head of the prison, though there have been a few cases, she says, where the stork has won the race, and the little new life came into being behind prison walls. But Miss Elliott is bi terly opposed to subjecting an innocent baby to the stigma of "prison-born.” She has zealously watched over the mothers and seen to it that children were born in a hospital. Miss Elliott's thoughtfulness hasn’t ceased these either. “Wonderful Governors we’ve had,” she says, and she should know, for she has appealed to them f r paroles for these new mother?, so that child and mother need not be separated. At Marysville, Ohio, in the Woman’s State Prison, babies born to prison inmates are kept in the prison with their mothers, and the mothers are permitted to visti them and care for them each day. But this, Miss Elliott feels, is not fair, to the baby to be kept behind prison walls. It was trustee's day. Their business finished, Miss Elliott, Miss Mary Neely, of Martinsville, Ind., and Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing stood watching the mending class at work on the blue and white gingham dresses. All three were emphatic in their denouncement of prison birth for babies. “Poor little things, they will have a hard enough row to hoe without being bom in prison,” said Mrs. Kealing, who is prominently associated with club and reform work in Indianapolis. A steady downpour of rain kept the prisoners indoors. “What do they do on a rainy day?” Miss Elliott was asked. "Oh, I’ll show' you,’’land she led the way, carefully unlocking and locking again each door that she came to. We passed down the corridor to anothei classroom, where blue ginghamed figures were busy over patchwork, beading and basket making. They seemed childishly happy over the praise she gave them. Some of the original designs of the patchwork were lovely. Above the hum of voices in the busy workroom, a canary piped shrilly. Memory of the canaries cared for by Mrs. Rae Krauss, who was recently pardoned by Governor Jackson after serving twenty-one years of a life sentence for murder, prompted the question: "One of Mrs. Krauss’?” "No, one of the girls has hers.” Thf rooms of the corridor seemed filled with gilt cages and the golden

Thousands Pass Bryan Bier in ‘Church of Presidents,

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Here is the first pic ture of the body of William Jennings Bryan lying in state in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, the “Church of the Presidents” in Washington. The Sparish War guard of honor surrounds the bier. Thousands filed past the casket yesterday and this mom ing in silent tribute. __________

LIKELIHOOOD OF MIRER STRIKE SEPT. 1 GROWS Hard Coal Operators and Workers Negotiate Hopelessly. Bv United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 31. ■ —The unqualified stand taken by operators’ delegates, that the anthracite Industry could not absorb the increased costs which would result from the granting of the miners’ demands was to precipitate sharp clashes with resumption of the mlners-operators conference here today. Representatives of the operators indicated that their formal statement on the situation to be issued soon would be based upon this contention and hence would not open a way out of the present deadlock. After nearly three weeks of conferences, neither side has apparently been shaken even slightly from its original stand. A strike of the 158,000 anthracite miners on Sept. 1 appears increasingly likely. Jqhn L. Lewis, international president of United Mine Workers of America, issued a formal statemen* in which he said "it is obvious to every one that the operators have no intention of arriving at a settlement before the present contract expires.” Lewis said: “It is regrettable that no progress of any character has been made by the conference. The operators occupy their time-hon-ored position of denying everything.”

plumage of the little songsters. Immaculately neat the rooms were, too, with their clean bedding and well kept floors. As we went down the basement steps the warm odor of freshly ironed linens met us. "The girls are just finishing,” said Miss Elliott glancing in the U.undry room as we walked nast on our way to visit the kitchens and storage rooms. Everything shone with spotless cleanliness. In the refrigerator room, we discovered twenty-four fat chickens ready for the next day’s dinner. They came from the prison poultry yard. Loaves of fresh bread lined the closet shelves in one of the store rooms, and the breadbaker of that day stood proudly by while we inspected them. In fact, everyone seemed happy and contented, each with her work to do, and really trying to do that work the very best she know how. Many of the girls had never worked at anything Before they came to prison.

Acrobatic Auto Required at South Side Comer

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If you have an acrobatic, mo-tion-picture-studio automobile that will climb sidewalks and buildings, you can drive around the corner at Lexington Ave. and Shelby St. while a street car is negotiating that corner.

Evert Milkmen Dodge West Southern Ave.

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Foul smelling pools thinly covered sewers and canyon-like ruts in the road have driven most of the traffic off W. Southern Ave., according to residents of the neighborhood. Even the milkman fears the mosquitos and bugs will bathe in the milk and refuses to serve them, the residents say. However, wagon transportation is undaunted, as proved by Nor-

BRITISH MINER CRISIS AVERTED Operators Withdraw LockOut Notices for Fortnight. Bv United Press LONDON, July 31. —Premier- Baldwin announcing in Commons today thit there had been a provisional seitlement of the coal crisis. The owners h£#e s'uspended for a fortnight their lockout notices which were to have been effective at midnight tonight. Baldwin explained that the "provisional settlement” was subject to confirmation of the workers. The settlement caused relief throughout Britain for the threatened coal shortage it was feared would bring a tremendous industrial crisis in its wake. DEATH IS INVESTIGATED Coroner Paul P, Robinson was today investigating death of Carl Ragsdale, 25, of Trafalgar, Ind., at Methodist Hospital Thursday. According to Dr. L. A. Ensminger, Ragsdale died from injuries received July 27, while working for the Big Four Railroad near Beech Grove, Ind. Officials said they had no report of the accident.

Lexington Alve. and Shelby St. Intersection.

The intersection has been the scene of a number of accidents because the street car tracks are so close to the sidewalk. Straightening of the jog, a comps rativaly simple engineering undertaking, was promised to the''

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Norman Aikinson, W. Southern Ave.

man Aikins, 240 W. Bakemeyer St., who Is shown maneuvering the crevices and crags on that thoroughfare. Speedy results were achieved through an investigation by Otto Ray, leader of the councilmanlc rebellion. Dr. Heiman G. Morgan, city health officer, reiterated his protest to the park board concerning the insanitary conditions and within a few hours, an order came

These Men Are Aids to Mr. Fixit

L est to right: Thomas E. New som, Frank Reid, W. P. Hargon

Here are three of the chief aids of Mr. Fixit, Indianapolis Times representative at city hall, who helps Indianapolis residents present complaints to city officials. When Mr. Fixit receives a zippy complaint on streets from one of the family of ,Ti mes readers, he hastens to the office of the street commissioner, where he usually encounters one of the three men above. They direct the gangs of city workmen that massage the thor-

south side by Mayor Shank, according to councilmen in rebellion against the present administration. It is one of the things south side councilmen are demanding be done for their section of the city.

from R. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent, for maintenance forces at the city playgrounds to fill in the stagnant pools, located on park board property near Southern Ave. William H. Freeman, board of works member, said he would order immediate inspection of the thoroughfare with a view of remedying the situation.

oughfares and fix up the sewers. You’ve seen their names many times in Mr. Flxit’s column. Meet Thomas E. Newsom, Frank Reid and W. P. Hargon. ‘HOLD-UP’ WAS POKER Grocery Employe Under Arrest After Making Confession. Charles Potter, 38, of 1514 E. Market St., Is under arrest today on an embezzlement charge. Detectives Brickley and Finnerman said he told them his report of a hold-up on Ohio St. July 24, in which he was robbed of 829, was false. According to the officers, Potter confessed he lost $29 which belonged to the Kroger Grocery Company, his employer, in a poker game and invented the hold-up story to cover his loss. GAMING CHARGES MADE Police Raid Room—Doors and Windows Covered. A raid on an alleged gambling place resulted in thirteen arrests on Thursday night. Lieutenant Eisenhut and Sergeant Stoddard and squads covered ali doors and windows as they rushed into the room at 246*4 E. Wabash St., and charged John Bartlow, 62, of that address with keeping a gaming house. LICENSE BROUGHT BACK Bride-to-be Changes Mind Before Ceremony at Muncie. B i/ United Press MUNCIE, Ind., July 31.—-" Women do change their minds,” Perry Mansfield. county clerk, opined today. / “We want to get married right away,” a young girl blushingly told Mansfield as her husband-to-be turned over the license fee. "Can you help us find a justice of the peace?” Mansfield directed them to a marrying squire. The next day the girl returned hastily, left the unused license on the clerk’s and fled.

PENNSY PICNIC Association WilT"Have Outing at Columbia ParkMore than 1,000 members of the Veteran Employes' Assoclatloon of Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania railroad will take their families and friends tc the annual outing Saturday at Columbia Park. H. V. Old is chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements. A special train which will carry the delegation to the park will leave the Union Station at noon.' BARTON ASSUMES POST New Legion Adjutant Takes Over Duties of Creviston James F. Barton, Ft. Dodge, lowa, today assumed the duties of national adjutant of The American Legion, succeeding Russell Creviston, Marion, Ind., who resigned to become field director of the American War Mothers Memorial Association. Barton had been for more than four years adiutant of the lowa department of the Legion prior to his appointment last April as assistant national adjutant. Creviston, who ha's been connected | with the national headquarters for j six years, will go for a visit at his 1 old home at Marion. He will at- ' tend a meeting of the War Mothers j Memorial Association at Washing- | ton, D. Cl Aug. 7 and 8 and then go to New York to arrange, as secretary of the Legion delegation ' to the Fldac congress In Rome Sept. 10 to 13 for the work of the delegtion there. He will sail from New York Aug. 15. U.S. INTENDS TO DEPORT REMUS AND 13 OTHERS Investigation Launched of Nativity of ‘Bootleg King’ and Pals. Bv United Preen CINCINNATI. Ohio, July 31. Deportation of George Remus, the “millionaire bootlegger” as soon as he is released from the Federal prison at Atlanta, and thirteen aliens implicated in Remus’ alleged operations was the aim of a Federal investigation of their nativity launched today in Cincinnati, Chicago and Atlanta, Federal officials announced. The deportations, officials declared, could be brought about under provisions of an immigration clause which provides for the deportation of an alien who within five years of his arrival is convicted of moral turpitude. The clause is imperative against Remus, officers claim, because within the last five years he left, and re-entered the United States. Remus was indicted here by a Federal grand Jury in connection with his liquor activities but the case never was tried. His booze hoard was taken in a warehouse at Lawrenceburg, Ind.

GARAGE WORKER HOLD-UP VICTIM Burglaries and Thefts Also Reported. One hold-up and several burglaries and thefts were reported to police Thursday nlKht. Two colored men entered the Vaught garage, 1839 N- New Jersey St., and when they found Duncan Flowers, night man, was alone, pointed a gun at Flowers and took a watch, $7 of his money and $6.85 of the company’s money. They escaped in a Willys-Knight sedan, license 6-666, belonging to F. H. Miller, 2131 N. New Jersey St., parked In the garage. Ara Wright, 323 N. Noble St., told police his watch, valued at SSO, was taken from his coat in the Checker garage, 525 W. Washington St., whree he is employed. Burglars broke a glass at the Purol filling station, North and Delaware Sts., and took 15 pennies, gasoline and grease. BOYS SHOOT AT AUTOS Two Are Arrested After Rocks Fly Through Air. Two small boys terrorized traffic at Emerson Ave. and E. Michigan St. Thursday night when rocks came bounding through the windows of automobiles. Police found the boys, aged 12 and 13, with a sling shot. They face charges in Juvenile Court. Ivan Rankin, 616 N. Meridian St., first reported that a rock was thrown through the window of a Peoples Motor Coach Company bus he was driving. JUMPS FROM STREET CAR Girl I Tightened by Explosion of Fuse Leaps Off Car. Frightened when a fuse exploded Thursday night, Miss Willie May Settles, 19, colored, 2146 Sheldon St., ran to the rear door of a Columbia Ave. street car at 555 Massachusetts Ave., opened the door and leaped out. She was severely injured about the head and was sent to city hospitaj. Conductor was K. E. Truelove, 19 Bungalow Park. AUTO STRIKES PEDESTRIAN Leonard Fink, 5854 Dewey Ave., was charged with assault and battery Thursday night. Police say his auto struck William Rlckabaugh, 760 E. McCarty St., at Pennsylvania and Washington Sts. Rickabaugh was cut on the head and taken to the city hospital for treatment. CONCERT IS POSTPONED The concert scheduled by the Indianapolis Military Band in University Pnrk Thursday night, prevented by rain, will be held at the same place Saturday night. W. S. Mitchell, director, has announced It will be given under auspices of the city park department.

STATEHOUSE FULL OF TALK NUMBER OF HIGH OFFICIALS ARE TO LOSE POSITIONS SOON

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Patrolman Kdward Harmes. During the past administration the police department adopted the plan of getting more erritory covered with fewer men by having a pair of patrolmen covering two dr three large districts in automobiles. The old custom of an officer pulling the box every hour, was supplanted and the motorized police now pull the box every fifteen minutes. This keeps the men more closely in touch with headquarters, and gives localities police supervision at a snorter intervals. Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff said he hoped before the end of his term to see, all districts covered in autos. Rikhoff says a good pair of men in an are worth four on foot. Patrolman Edward Harmes was one of the men picked to man a car. He was appointed Aug. 3. 1910 and lives at 4625 N. Capitol Ave. He works from 3 to 11 p. m.

Nope, Not Winter, Just July

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“It really is chilly,” said Mrs. Paul Anderson, 1229 N. Pennsylvania St., today as she waited for a (v>r at Illinois and Washington Sts. “I’ll tell you, this cool weather makes a heavy caot feel very comfortable, especially of mornings.” Mrs. Anderson may. keep her coat out of the closet for a few more days at least, the United States Weather Bureau says, for with temperature today about 10 degrees below normal, Indianapolis faces the prospect of continued au>dinn weathei

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WARNING! THE “IF WINTER COMES” SALE of JOHN SHANNON Overcoats, Ends Saturday Night 9 o’Clock! Now A $5.00 Deposit C* W** Holds Any ■ ■ Coa,/ tjU I S&*.£' lg ' a ad" and 1 -If WinfrCcm..,L foreign fabric!. J $75 to SIOO K L.Strjss *GoJ 33 t 0,39 "West Washington St. "THE HOME OF r THE OVERCOAT"

Reorganization of G. 0. P. State Committee to Suit Governor May Bring Changes —Walb Unable to Secure Plums. By Lowell Toms Eyes of the politically ambitious these days are centered on efforts to reorganize the Republican State committee, and much attention is being given to the possible effect of such a rearrangement on some of the better Statehouse jobs. Asa result of the move that ie being made to pattern the committee In a way more suitable to Governor Jackson, It Is freely said the stems on some of the official plums are withering. Jackson Vs. Committee Governor Jackson has shown a strong disinclination to dole out Jobe to the satisfaction of the State committee. The many trips of Clyde A. Walb, State chairman, to Jackeon’e office have proved fruitless. This weakening of Walb hue caused a wavering In the faithfulness of his adherents and the need of a State chairman with views compatible with those of the Governor is seen by many. On the basis of Influence with the Governor, George V. Coffin, Marlon County chairman, would be the logical dictator of the Stats committee’s affairs, but with the out-State voters divided In their views toward Coffin a doubt exists as to his ability to go over next year, when a chairman Is elected. Some Are Doubtful Regardless of the complexion of the State committee, here are some of the officials whose Jobe hang In the balance: Charles W. Zelgler, Attica, chairman of the State highway commission; Earl Crawford, Milton, and Alvan V. Rurch, Evansville, two members of the roads body. John D. Williams, director of the highway commission. John J. Brown, chairman of tha State tax board. John W. McCardle, chairman of the public service commission. John A. Brown, secretary of the board of State charities. Estes Duncan, secretary of the teachers' retirement fund. Robert T. Humes, chief of tha ' State motor police. Each of these officials, for some reason or another, is on the “out*” with a political faction that l|i_ after his Job. The continuance of each on his particular Job depends much on the new State committee and its influence with Governor Jackson. ARRESTED TWO TIMES Man, Said to Have Bern Beating Daughter, Resists Officer*. Garnet Altken. 42, of 1605 Leonard St., was placed In city prison twice Thursday night. Today he 1* held In default of a *5,000 bond and faces two charges of resisting arrest, two of vagrancy, one of assault and battery and one of disturbing the | peace. I Lieut. Joe Klalher said Altken was beating his daughter, Helen,- If, I when Klalher attempted to reason ; with him. Altken, enraged, turned on Klalher. Klalher Is nursing an Injured leg and hand and Altken was treated at city hospital before he was taken to Jail. He 'gained hie release on bond and soon reappeared at his home and started over again, and this time his wife called Patrolmen McDaniel and Prlndle. They charged him with disturbing the peace. MANAGER HAS OPERATION Nelson Trowbridge, manager of the Murat, today was at his home following an operation for the removal of his tonsils. He expect* to return to his desk Monday.

Overcoat Charge Purchases will be payable in November.

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