Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1925 — Page 3

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MARY JILTS HER FOSTER FATHER FOR THE FILMS Modern Cinderella’s Adoption to Be Declared Null and Void. Bu United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 10.—Mary gpas, modern Cinderella, has Jest her disillusioned foster-father and apparently is headed for the movies. Wearing one of the forty frocks which the riches of her “fairy godfather,” Richard W. Browning, purchased for her before it developed that her age was 21, Mary walked out of the millionaire's life Su day, never to return. Browning Sorry The girl’s departure, anticipated by a few hours an attempt made by Browning to invalidate the adoption. “I am sorry for the whole affair,* 1 Browning said today. “I had confidence in her to the very last. If she had been 17 years old it would have been different. But 21 years old was too much. (Mary intimates that Browning told her to claim 16 as her age, which she did). With Film Agent „ “She is a wonderful actress. Well, if you try to help some people you are double-crossed, and if you don’t help them, they try to take it out on you.” Mary left with a moving picture firm agent late yesterday against the wishes of Browning and has not been seen since.

iLONE TRUSTEE SEEKSCOUNSEL Beech Grove Board Members Split. Beech Grove was split into two camps today on the transportation question. The town is without a town board, two members having resigned in order to enter the motor transportation field. The remaining member of the town board, Willard Ticeu, facing the necessity of acting immediately on the 1926 tax levy, is powerless to act and will consult attorneys today. In the meantime, a resolution has been served on Governor Jackson, asking him to compel the public service commission to reconsider am order authorizing the South Side Motor Coach Company to establish a bus line between Indianapolis and Beech Grove. Two members of the coach company firm, Frank Stuck and G. E. McFarland, were the two former members of the town board. Because Stuck and McFarland held official positions, the commission first tjenied the application for a Beech orove route. They resigned and tho reversed its; order. At an indignation meeting Satur-l-'Jjiy night a number of citizens des??red action of the commission. |0 ENFORCE DRY LAW 1 Officials Will Stop Liquor Traffic in Illinois City. \ii United P*ets GARY, Ind., Aug., 10.—Calumet Jty, 111., just across the street from {me- dry Indiana and an oasis for Jirsty Hoosiers of the Calumet dispict is going dry, officials of the 11jnois village pledged today. Special attention will be paid to enforcement of the prohibition law by Calumet City police, Mayor Jaranowski announced. Soft drink parlors are not to serve anything hut soft drinks hereafter, the mayor said. RADIO DEALERS INVITED Gibson Company to Be Convention Host Aug. 18. Plans for a radio dealers’ convention, to be held Aug. 18, were announced today by the Gibson Company of Indianapolis, wholesalers of yadio and automotivze equipment. Invitations have been sent to more than 3,000 dealers and prospective dealers in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. The future of broadcasting, permanency of radio, a summary of radio marketing conditions and other maters will be discussed. The latest in radio sets will be exhibited In the Gibson Bldg-, Michland N. Capitol Ave., where the cOB-vestlon will be held. CAMP DATES ARE SET Several Hundred Children to Attend Y. M. C. A. Outing. Bu 7imes Special MONTICELLO, Ind., Aug. 10.— Two hundred boys and girls are expected at the annual Y. M. C. A. • camp of White, Carroli and Jasper Counties, Aug. 17 to 24, at Camp Tecumseh on the Tippecanoe River south of here. Girls will meet first four days and boys the latter four. H. G. Leslie, speaker of the House of Representatives, and other wellknown men will talk. RATE PETITION DEFERRED Bu Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 10.—Announcement was made today that the proposed reduction in the light and power rates of the municipal eleotric light plans will not be presented to the public service commission, but will be deferred until after Jan. 1. SLATE FOUR MOTORISTS Four alleged speeders were slated today. They were: . Albert Cohen, 3117 Central Ave., Julius Bielach, 6141 Kenwood Ave., Everett Harlan, 2839 Kenwood Ave., and James Gooteby, 333 S. Rural St. I CADDIES CHASE MELONS Bu Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., Aug. 10. — Chas-ing-watermelons instead of golfballs landed several caddies of the local Country Club In juvenile court. The boys were lectured and released when they promised never to do It again.

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Federal authorities took precautionary measures against riots Saturday in Washington during the Klan parade by stationing armed marines around tlif\, treasury building. At top is shown a typical Itarade car. Initiation of 500 New Members Concludes National Klonvocation. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Washington settled'back to its work-a-day_ routine of Government business today as 86,000 Ku-Klux Klansmen scattered to their homes throughout the country, following their monster klonvocation here Saturday and Sunday. Initiation of 600 new members beneath the glare of a monster fiery cross on a hill outside Washington last night was the last official activity of the klonvocation. An arfny estimated at . 50,000 strong paraded past the White House to Washington monument Saturday ■without significant incident. 'GRAND OLD FRESHMAN’ i Scholarship Students to Represent Late Edward Rector. Bu Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 10.— When De Pauw University opens this fall the new freshman class will be without the name of its “grand old freshman.” Edward Rector who died Aug. 1 at Chicago and who had given more than a million dollars to the institution will not be present. It was his custom to enroll each fall as a freshman and attend the first chapel session. However, 193 other freshmen known as Rector scholars will represent him. OFFICERS STOP DANCING Sheriff and Dry Agent Close Fall Creek Barbecue s Place. Dancing at Fall Creek barbecue, Keystone Ave. and Noblesville Rd., ended at 2 a. m. Sunday when Sheriff Omer Hawkins and Bert Morgan, Federal prohibition agent, closed the place. Homer McQuarry, 445 W. TwentyEighth Ft., proprietor, was charged with contributing to the delinquency of- the J.4-year-old daughter of Mrs. Eva Cyilmont, 2208 Duke St., an employe. The mother was charged with child neglect. It was said the two allowed the girl to sell dance tickets. An abatement suit to close the place for a year was filed last week in Circuit Court by the Anti-Saloon League.

NEW PAPER ISSUED The Bulletin Is Official Organ of Fire Marshal’s Office. Initial issue of The Bulletin, official organ of the State fire marshal’." office, was being mailed throughout the State today. Hitch is editor of the publication, a four-page paper. Governor Jackson extends his greet : ngs to the firemen of Tndiana. The paper is being distributed free to schools, libraries, newspapers, fire stations, public* officials and others interested. SEVEN CONCERNS'MERGE Union Steel Company Announces $20,000,000 Combiac. Bu Times Special GARY, Ir.d., Aug. 10.—The Union Drawn Steel Company which operates a plant here has announced a $30,000,000 merger of seven concerns, all manufacturing cold drawn steel products. The Union company will retain its main offices at Beaver Falls, Pa. Merger is understood to be an Indirect result of the Pittsburgh plus ruling of last summer. BARN DAMAGED BY FIRE Fire officials today were Investigating origin of fire that caused SSOO damages to a barn of Charles Colton, north of the city on the Michigan Rd. early Sunday. Firemen said they thought the blaze was the work of a pyromaniac.

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OIL STATIONS AREROBBED Two Attendants Victims of of Clever Ruse. Attendants of two Sinclair Oil Company filling stations were victims o fa new idea ifi thievery Sunday, the company’s loss being $157. W. D. Munns, 1133 Kappes St., attendant at McCarty St, and Virginia Ave. said a man called over the telephone representing himself to be superintendent of service for the company and ordered him to go to Twenty-Fourth and Meridian St., and relive the attendant there. A man who called himself Cole, in a Sinclair uniform, relieved Munns. He took S9B from the safe and cash register. , C. W. Ross, attendant at Thirtieth and Meridian Sts., received the same orders./ The sum of $59 which he turned over to the new man w-as taken. NIGHT SCHOOL EXPANDS Ten New Courses Added To I. U. Extension Division Ten new courses wdll be added to the Indiana University Extension Division curriculm, with the opening of the fall term Sept. 24, it was announced today by Miss Mary B. Orvis, director. Classes are held in Shortridge High school and at 319 N. Pennsylvania St. In addition to liberal arts and business subjects, the following new courses will be given, business cycles and forecasting, cost accounting, banking and production movements, general inorganic chemistry and metallography, introduction to teaching, reading and phonetics, the English novel, English history and French history, seminary in history, contracts, and bills and notes. REVEALS HIDING PLACE Alleged Murderess Tells Where Husband Put Drills. Bu Tithes Special LA PORTE, Ind., Aug. 10.—Nagging conscience forced Mrs. Anna Skibo, who is lodged in jaid here waiting trial on charge of murdering her husband with a crtffvbar, to tell Judge H. B. Crumpacker where a quantity of drills stolen by her husband - were hidden. “I want to right all the wrong I can,” said Mrs. Skibo in a note to the judge. The drills were stolen when her husband worked in nearby carshops. POLICE CHARGE BOTH George Williams, colored, 1909 Lewis St., is charged with blind tiger and keeping a gaming house and Hayes Humphrey, colored. 2005 Lewis St., is held on charges of petit larceny and gaming. Humphrey told police he bought liquor from Williams and Williams claimed Humphrey stole $lO from him during a craps game Saturday.

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If you see automobiles bearing those license numbers, call the police or The Indianapolis Times, Main 3000. The owner may be able to do the same for you some time. Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Herbert Toops, 624 Park Ave., Ford, from Market and Delaware Sts. • D. H. Furse, Cl ay pool, Hudson, 216-998, from 37 S. Capitol. Ewing Shield, 2535 Park Ave., Ford, 12-593, from same address. John Walker, 3720 College Ave., Ford, ,567-348, from same address. M. T. Dalton, 51 S. Oriental St., Chevralet, 562-529, from Meridian and McCarty Sts.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: James Bacon, 231 S. Oakland Ave.', Overland, at Indiana Ave. and North St. Herman Peiper, 3122 S. New Jersey St., Ford, at 1604 S. Meridian St. Le Roy Sutherland, 1128 S. Shefeld Ave., Ford, at Belmont Ave. and Eagle Creek. On the forms of this country are five chickens for every man, woman and child in the entire United States.

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QUEER SHOOTING IS INVESTIGATED Police Arrest Several After Man |s Wounded. Detectives today -vere attempting to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding the shooting of Frank Miller, 31, of 123 W., Walnut St., wounded in the left shoulder early Sunday. * - Police said Miller told them that he and Jean Thompson, alias McDenold, 23, of 123 W.-Walnut St., were walking at North and Senate Ave., and were insulted by a crowd of colored people, one of whom shot him. Miller was found by police in the home of Ralph Hyatt, Palmer Apts., North St, and Senate Ave. In the apartment Were Hyatt and hi* wife. Lee Merritt, 2407 N. Meridian St.; Harry Day, 966 N. Meridian St., and Marion Roby, Spencer House. Police arrested them on vagrancy charges and found Mrs. Thompson at her home with William Walker, 28, of Grand Hotel, suffering with a deep gash in his head. She said she struck Walker. Clarence Cissell, 29, and his wife, Mary, 22, of the Sher man House, were placed under arrest when police found them In an auto with a revolver with an exploded shell in it. Police say they learned all the persons drinking at Hyatt's apartment and that Cissell drew a gun on Miller.

KITTEN BALL SEMI-FINALS Boys to Meet in First Game of Wind-Up. Thousands of fans gathered at Riley municipal playground today to witness | the first of the semifinals -in the Boys’ Kitten Ball League between Fall Creek gand Kingan’s playground teams. Fall Creek won the pennant in League Five, while Kingan's captured the honors in League Six. Other semi-finals scheduled this week are: Military-Kansas & Meridian at Willard, Tuesday: Williard vs. winner of game between Spades and Highland for leadership of League Four. Wednesday. Winners of the contests Monday and Tuesday will play Thursday. The Times will provide medals for the players on the city championship team. GEORGE HAYWOOD DEAD Attorney and Former Publisher to Be Buried Tuesday. Bu United Press LAFAYETET. Ind., Aug. 10.— Funeral services will be held Tuesday for George Haywood, attorney and former newspaper publisher, who died Sunday. He was at one time publisher of the Lafayette Journal and served one term as postmaster of Lafayette.

TWO HELD IN SHOOTING Both Captured After One Wounds His Brother-In-Law. Ransom Pruitt, 32, of 674 W. Wilkins St., and his brother-in-law, Monroe Dicks, 22, same address, are held by police today after it is alleged Pruitt shot Dicks in the shoulder Saturday. When police arrived, Pruitt threw a revolver away and escaped ’ after being fired upon by SerKt. Russell. Dicks was arrested after the auto he

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was driving collided with another at Raymond St. and Bluff Rd. Pruitt was captured at West and Merrill Sts. by Detectives Lansing and MoDonald. . HOME FOR BURIAL Bu United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Aug. 10.—Th# body of Evelyn Perron, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Perron, was taken to their home In Barberton, Ohio, today for burial. The Utile girl was fatally Injured by an lnterurhan car here.

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DRIVER FIGHTS BACK Woman Motorist Appeals Spending Conviction. Bu United Press CRAWFORDSVII.T.E, Ind.. Aug. 10.—The appeal of Miss Halon Hitch of Lafayette, against conviction for speeding In Justice of the peace court at Linden, was on file today In Montgomery Circuit Court. She was the first driver to flfht hack at John Stull, town marshal, In hta antl-speedlng campaign.

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