Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1925 — Page 2

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HOOSIER TRADE BODY CHAIRMAN CHANGES FRONT Van Fleet Switches Sympathies in Commission Decision on Big Business. Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—Vernon Van Fleet of Bristol, Ind., chairman *>f the Federal Trade Commission has raised' conjecture here whether he is going to inject a spark of life into that somewhat moribund body. Six Weeks ago he led the chorus to Commissioner Humphery’s hymn of praise of all American big business, good, bad and indifferent. At that time he joined Commissioners Humphrey and Hunt in a revision of the rules of proceedure, over the violent protest of Commissioners Thompson and Nugent. Changes Front But now comes Chairman Van Fleet hand in hand with Nugent and Thompson and orders dissolution of a consolidation of two large shoe manufacturing companies over the almost tearful protest of Humphrey and Hunt. The decision of the commission, just announced, orders the International Shoe Company, St. Louis, to divest itself of all stock ownership of the W. H. McElwain Company, Boston. The joining of the stock of the two companies, doing an extensive business in several States, is held by the majority of the commission to “substantially lessen competition,” and in violation of the Clayton act. The dissenters view the consolidation as not only legal but beneficial to all parties concerned, including the consumers. Position Important Asked if his joining Thompson and Nugent in this case indicated a change of heart, or head, in regard to the proper wor kof the commission, Van Fleet said that it did notVan Fleet simply averred that in order to be right all the time he might have to join either one of the two conflicting minorities now and then. ' On which minority he joins most regularly will depend, ob"servera believe, whether the commission will become essentially a rubber stamp of big business, or a definite force in molding the business practice and policy of the country.

LOCK-UPS LACK PATRONAGE IN BRITISH ISLES Crime Has Not Decreased —Prisoners Are Treated Differently. Times Washington Bureau. 1322 Sew York Avenue. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—While in the United States prisons are overflowing with criminals held, for crimes ranging frpm speeding to first degree murder, more than twenty prisons in England-ard Wales have been closed since 3 14, says the American consulate hrough the Department of Commerce. This reflects a reduction of practically a third of the total number, although the forty prisons remainir*r are by no means fully occupied. It also indicates a decrease of about 66 per cent in the number of persons sentenced to. imprisonment since 1913. The total prison population for the year 1933-24 was 58,216. Ten years ago it was 167,000. The reduction in the number of prisons and their conversion into places and barracks, does not, however, mean that crime has decreased in proportion. It is all in the way the offenders are treated by authorities. In the United States the procedure is usually that of applying punishment after the crime has been committed., In England they seek to prevent a crime if possible, or when it is not possible, greater use of the probationary methods for adults and Barstal institutions for young people is thought best. The psychology of English justice is to reform a man or woman if possible and to resort to prison only when necessary. Often unjust imprisonment will forever prevent the victim from “coming back.” During the first few years of this century, about 500 in every 100,000 of Great Britain’s population were sent to prison a year. Today the number is 100 to every 100,000. The leading crimes In England which have all shown marked decreases are drunkenness, begging, breach of police regulations, prostitution, assaults, larceny, burglary, murder and manslaughter. "-CENT TAX CUT b.. Times Specie: MARION, Ind., Aug. 10.—A reduction of the city tax levy from $1.12 to 51.05 was announced here today in a tentative budget for 1926. Decrease was made possible, by a $2,000,000 increase in valuation, figures showing a $30,000,000 valuation this year. A SAUCE V& „ Makes

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Mrs. Mary E. Coleman, 84, of 1122 N. Keystone Ave., won a $5 prize for being the oldest person at the reunion of formet Daviess County residents Sunday at Brook-’ side Park. The age of the nine persons who competed for the prize totaled 7(56 years. -Others competing were:

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The life of a life guard at tho municipal bathing beaches includes anything from holding baby while mama takes, a dip to being insulted by someone after saving, his life. • If any one thinks it’s a life of roses ,let him talk with the four guards at the W. J“wenty-Sixth St. bathing beach on White river, Bus Watson, 732 Fletcher Ave., Earl Montgomery, 525 Patterson St.;, Wayne Geisel, 3734 Ruckle St., and Howdy Taylor, 835 W. Twenty-Ninth “It. was so cold out here one night we had a fire, and stood shivering around it while people splashed around in the river,” they said. Prevent Brownings Their man duty, of course, Is to see that nobody gets drowned.

CHURCH MAY BE SOLD Chapel Where Presidents Worshipped Cannot Pay Debts. Bu United Press ASHBURY PARK. N. J., Aug. 10. —Saint James Chapel here, may be sold on the auction block because its sixty communicants are unable to raise S6OO to pay for street paving. Woodrow Wilson, William McKinley, James Garfield and U. -S. Grant worshipped there .when visiting or living in this vicinity. It had only $l5O in the treasury and was unable to pay when the <jlty presented the bill. BAR MISS SOUTH BEND Charge Violation of Rules In Selecting Beauty. Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 10.— Mises Florence King, selected as Miss South Bend to represent the city in the National Beauty Pageant in Atlantic City hqs been declared ineligible by Armand J. Nicholas, contest director. Nicholas said, Misk South Bend was chosen because of her ability to gain votes instead ob being selected on a basis of pulchritude. SAVED THREE LIVES Bu Times Special , EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 10.— Wirt Joseph, a Carpenter of Newburgh, Ind-, has rescued three persons from drowning this season. Friday, Joseph made his third rescue when he pulled Joseph Jefferies of Chandler from the Ohio river.

Mrs. F. E. Dayis, 78, of 40 S. Warman Ave. Mrs. Catherine Zinkan, 74, of 317 Fulton St. Emma McClain, 74, of 702 S West St. L. W. Ellis, 73, of 1143 S. State St. Michael Buckley, 82, of 1120 N. New Jersey St.

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With 10,000 people filling the river on a hot night, it is a task. “You just have to use your eyes,” said the guards. “You can’t rely on the ear at all, when everyone gets to squawking and ducking his best girl.” One time Geisel and Montgomery rescued a woman who weighed 240 pounds. When they pulled her into the boat, it started to sink, and they had to dive overboard. "She got mad when we told her not yn go back in,” said Geisel. Many mothers ask the guards to tend baby so they can swim unencumbered. “We don’t have to, so it sort of depends on who she Is and how she looks,” said one of the guards. “Now there was a red-headed girl

WILD RIDE’PUTS WOMEN IN JAIL Two Arrested After Auto Strikes Men. Mrs. Cressle Jones, 25, of 125. N. Miley Ave., and Miss Emma Finer, 37, of 902 E. Morris St., were lodged in jail today after police alleged they had “one wild ride.’’ Witnesses said Mrs. Jones was driving her automobile thirty-five miles an hour west on W. Tenth St. Mrs. Jones was charged with driving while intoxicated, drunkenness, speeding and assault and battery. Miss Finer was slated for drunkenness. According to witnesses the wopien broke down a barricade at Belmont drove through 100 feet of freshly laid cement and struck two colored man, Gaddis Lucas, 975 W. Pearl St, and Cecil Stewart, 2143 Highland PI. Both were taken 'to city hospital. YOUNG BANDIT KILLED Filling Station Owner Shoots Youthful Hold-Up Men. Bu United Prets SALEM, Ohio, Aug. 10. —One youthful bandit was killed, another was wounded and a third captured in (an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a filling station near Lisbon today. James Crawford, owner of the station, shot the two youths and captured the third when they advanced on his station with drawn revolvers. Crawford had noticed the boys near the station and, becoming suspicious, armed himself with a shotgun and waited. As they advanced he opened fire. TWO BANDITS SOUGHT Police are searching today for the colored bandit and his accomplice who held up Mrs. A. Bundy, 643 S. Delaware St., who was sitting in her husband’s auto at Michigan St. and White River while her husband was digging bait along the river bank. Mrs. Bundy told police the bandit took their lunch and? 2.

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Ferdinand Davis, 82, of 40 S. Warman Ave. Dr. George W. Wilford, 78, of 1404 N. Pennsylvania St. George D. Abraham, 81, of 121 N. Bradley, sheriff of the Supreme Court. J. S. Hubbard was elected president fit the organization; and Emma McCord secretary and treasurer. About 500 attended.

who always let me tend her baby—” Clothes Stolon One of the chief sources of trouble the guards have is people having their clothes stolen from the woods around the beach. “They’re too cheap to spend a dime to check their clothes, and would rather hide them in the woods. Then when someone steals the clothes they jump on us.” People go in swimming with their valuables or key ring in their hand, and then want the. guards to dive for them when they are lost. Another source of trouble is people who can't swim, yet dive in twenty feet of water. They have to be pulled out every time. The guards get $75 a month for their varied activities.

FIND HUGE MUSHROOM Enormous Plant Disovered Near Atlanta, Ind. “How many mushrooms for a steak?" has been an old controversy among cooks, but S. Mahlon Unger, local attorney, 523 State Life Bldg., and Arthur Woodward, 431 Harvard PI., hace reversed the question. Unger and Woodward, returning from a reunion, found a mammoth mushroom growing near Atlanta, Ind. The growth measured 48 inches in circumference and weighed 11 pounds. Now Unger and Woodward are wondering how many steaks can be well seasoned with their find. O’BRIEN ESCAPES SHOT Police today were investigating the firing of a bullet into the home of Fire Chief John J. O’Brien Sunday night. O’Brien was sitting in a room at his home, 19 E. Orange St., when he heard the bullet strike an dplastering fall in ah adjoining room. He dug the lead out of the wall and took it to his office today. Neighbors said a small car followed by a larger one passed the house and occupants of both were shooting. It ’ was thought the exchange of shots might have been between rum-rummers and hijackers. POSTAL DEFICIT HUGE Bii United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—The postoffice deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, is approximately $37,149,000, it was announced by Postmaster General New today. Obligations amounted to $649,371,000 while estimated revenues were $600,600,000, from which a deduction must be made of $11,622,000 for estimated increases In outstanding liabilities and for civil service retirement. GALLONS OF LIQUOR SEIZED Mattie Malfreda, 734 Holmes Ave., was slated today on blind tiger charge following a police raid on her home Sunday. Officers seized two ten-gallon kegs of wine, large quantities of wine in other container*, home brew and beer, they said.

FORD’S ELECTRIC RAIL ENGINE IS READY FOR TEST Possesses Enough Power to Pull Train Mile and OneHalJ Long. Bti United Prem - DETROIT. Mich., Aug. 10.—The locomotive that Henry Ford believes will be the next step In world railroad transportation is about ready to make its trial test in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad. It is the longest locomotive ever built, is electrically driven and possesses enough power to pull a train of freight fars a mile and a half long. Some of the outstanding features of the giant engine follow: Carries Own Generators It weights 372 tons;, develops a maxium of 6,000 horse power; is 117 feet long and will go up to 35 miles an hour. A single high tension alternating current of 22,000 volts will be taken directly from the line and “stepped dcnwn” to supply? 600 volt direct current driving motors by means of transformers and motor generators r „r.v engine itself. , Engineer In Front Wh divided into two main sections of two articulated parts, each of which io complete and may be operated separately, control is equalized at, the front end where the engineer sits. The “fireman's’’ duty will be to look after operation of motor generators. Each of the sixteen axles is driven by a separate ilectric motor. The drive wheels are forty-two inches in diameter and have seperate brakes operated by air." '

SI.OB TAX RATE IS RESULT OF HOGUE’S COTS % Controller Suggests Business Men’s Committee in Future. C'y tax rate of $1.0825 was the final result of whittling at the budget for 1926 by Joseph L. Hogue, city conti oiler, today. “Can’t you soak the general fund a cent or two?” asked Mayor Shank. “Nothing doing; it’s down to' tho bone,’ Hogue replied. Hogue's Suggestion Hogue suggested that in preparing budgets in the future a committee of four business men, be appointed so consider the problem in n business like manner. “Too late! He’s out of luck," Mayor Shank said, when he was told that Gustave G. Schmidt, city plan commission member, sought appropriation of 1 cent levy for straightening the jog' at Illinois and Sixteenth Sts., contemplated by the commission ncxtiyear. Appropriation Refused Shank had refused to authorize I any appropriation for the thorough- I fare plan, despite the fact that the | plan commission had requested a. 3cent levy. i Schmidt said the Illinois St. improvement is badly needed because of congested traffic conditions. It would cost from $75,00 to SIOO,OOO, he stated. The plan commission also proposes to widen W. Sixteenth St. to sixty feet as far as Northwestern Ave., according to Schmidt. SHANK RUNS RAMPANT All Excited Over Tax Raise in Kendallville. Mayor Shank stampeded the State house today, expressing intense ire over the tax situation in Kendallville, home town of Mrs. Shank. The mayor hailed John J. Brown, chairman .of the State tax board, and after complimenting Brown on his chances foi* becoming Governor, proceeded to object to taxes in Kendallvllle, where the board ordered a 10 per cent increase on real estate. Shank pointed to the meager 5 per cent increase the board recommended for Ligonier, a neighboring town. He declared high taxes had driven a big refrigerator plant out of Kandellville. EXAMINE SCHOOL BOOKS State Board of Accounts Examiners Hoover and Thad Major today began the annual examination of the books and records of the Indiar>apo11s school board. The examination will require several days, it is said. ANNUAL W. C. T. U. MEET Bv Times Sperial MARION, In A, Aug. 10.—Annual convention of the Grant County W. C. T. U. will be held in Friends Church at Jonesboro, Sept. 29 and 30. New officers will be elected.

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Columbia Club Directors

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Irring W. Lemaux > These men are directors of the Columbia Club which moved into its new building on Monument Circle today. The officers of the club are also members of the board of directors. A formal opening of the building will be held in the fall.

NEW YORK ST. UP TO DOARD Plan Commission Not to Handle Project. City council members, who said they voted for the major thoroughfare plan ordinance because It would take the E. New York St. improvement out of the hands of the board of works, were surprised at an announcement of Gustave Cf. Smith, plan commission member, today that the board will retain jurisdiction. The project would raise the average width to fifty-four feet. Property owners want an average width of forty feet. William H. Freeman, board member, said today the board is determined to establish a speedway thoroughfare as decided by the plan commission. FIRE LOSS IS $1,000,000 Chicago Manufacturing District Periled by Lumber Blaze. By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 10.—The last embers of a million dollar lumber yard fire were extinguished early today. The greater part of the city's fire fighting apparatus worked furiously through the night checking the flames in the center of the manufacturing district. The lumber yard that was razed was owned by the Harris Brothers Company. Explosion of a 1,600 gallon gasoline tank an hour after the fire started shot flames hundreds of feet in all directions.

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NEW DEPUTY INSPECTOR State Superintendent Names E. B. Butler. t)r. Henry Noble Sherwood, State superintendent of public instruction, today announced the appointment of E. R. Butler, for the past four years principal of the Rushville schools, as assistant school inspector. Butler succeeds John Rlttenger, who recently was made chief of tho inspection department. Butler is an Earlham graduate and later attended the Universiy of Chicago. He also is chairman of the Sixth district teachers' association.

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STATEGASTAX FUND FIGURES FOROITYOIVE^ C. of C. Budget Expert Puts Local Apportionment * at SIIO,OOO. Indianapolis will receive approxl maiely SIIO,OOO on or about MArtfli I, 1926. as Its share of the 1926-26 State . gasoline tax, Leonard V. Harrison, secretary. Chamber of Commerce civic affair* department, declared In a report today. City budget-making official* had estimated the amount at SBI,OOO. but Harrison aid they have not taken Into consideration normal increases In ccmsumptlon of gasoline. For Road Improvement* Under the gasoline license fee act passed by the last Legislature, tho funds are to b apportioned among the State highway commission, counties, cltteoi and towns. Indianapolis is to receive 17.7 per cent of the one-twelfth portion allotted to cities on a basis of population according to 1920 censua. The fund ts to be used by council In the maintenance -or repair of any city streets or bridges, preferably on streets connecting with State highway*. • Harrison said that total amount of gasoline consumed for the first quarter of l'j?4 under the 2-cent ,tnx was 971,000 gallons, as compared to 64,687,050 gallons nn 36 8 per cent, for anme monthsMPl this yeai. Amount Consumed Total amount of gasoline consumed for second quarter of 1924 under 8cent MX total I',.', in- :>n7 gallons, MM compared to 72,811,040, increase of 11. per cent for corresponding nmnthH in 1925. Harrison said. GaHol.no consumption for the seven-month period, July, 1924, to January, 1925, Inclusive amounted to 159.825. 290 gallons, the report stated. By addin# a 10 per cent. Increase to this consumption. 175,807,819 gallons is given for the remaining sevenmonth period of the present gasoline tax year.

QUEEN CONTEST ENDSTUESDAY Local Clubs to Elect Miss Indianapolis. , J Miss Greater Indlana|s>lia must receive a majority of the vote* of a number of organizations before she is crowned queen of the feetlvl ties of Greater Indianapolis Week, Aug. 16-23. It wns announced by John F. Walker, committee today. An she must be single and supporting, he said. Candidates must submit pictures not later than 6 P- m. Tuesday. Heads of the police, fire, parks and postoffice departments and clvlo clubs will <ho< se candidates. They will then conduct a spirited warfare to obtain election. Voting will stop at 6 p. m. Thursday. Votes must be brought to headquarters before 6 p, m. Friday Judges are Virgin Ferguson, Wallace O. and Frank Jordan. Frank A. Holmes Is In charge of the contest.