Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1925 — Page 3

SATURDAY, SEPT. 5,1925

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Mrs. Zachary Lansdowne, right, says her husband, Commander Lansdowne, center, protest- Secretary of the Navy Wiled against the blimp’s fatal voyage because of the probability of just such a storm that caused bur, who denies Mrs. LansJhe tragedy. Secretary Wilbur overruled him, she says. Lansdowne’s mother is at the left. downe’s charges.

Restrictions ON HUCKSTERS ARE ORDERED Privileges Abused, Says Sloan —Predicts End of Night Sales. r* Peddlers have abused the privileges granted them by the board of safety apd Will suffer from tightening of restrictions, according to Robert R. Sloan, market master, today. Sloan said a city ordinance provides that hucksters may not come on their locations before midnight and shall not sell their wares before 4 a. m. market days, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. “I predict that in another year there will he no night marKet,'' he declared. On Sunday Night “Why, I heard they were even selling their products Sunday night.” “It's a condition that has been allowed to run on without attention until it has grown out of control,” Sloan stated. Police earrested P. V/. Pedeon, Fletcher Ave., a huckster, BFi-iday night when It was alleged Kd backed his wagon near the courthouse and began to sell his produce. He w r as charged with, blocking the streets. Drive to Be Made "The condition is deplorable, and I intend to make some drive to better it today,” Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff said. He asked the members of the board of public safety and Michael Glenn, traffic inspector, to meet with him. NECKLACEFOR DEAUTY WINNER Contest Will Be Held at Rhodius Park. A pearl necklace will go to the girl winning most popular applause in the bathing beauty contest to be held at Rhodius Park tonight. Before a crowd more than 8,000, Rhodius Park swimmers were victorious in most events at the Rhodius Park water carnival Friday night. Rhodius. girls won the canoe tilting event from Riverside, but the Rhodius boys lost to Riverside, which also was victorious in the polo , contest. Result* were: Sixty-yard, Tree style. wjKtilor girls, Euphrasia Donnelly. Rhodius. : Fern Blank, Rhodius. second: Flora Rhodius third: forty-vard. free junior girls' race. Esta Whiteford. Riverside, first: Helen Gauge. Rhodiui, second, and Loraine Collins. Rhodius. third: board race, Bonnie Miller. Riverside, first; Alice Elicit, Rhodius. second; fortyyard back stroke. Miss Donnelly, first: Garnet (l.iuse. Rliodius. second, and Helen Gause. Rhoalus third ® hlrh dive, seniors. Miss Donnelly, first; Regina Reese Willard. second, and V.rglnla Bayer. Willard, third: junior low dive. R-ith West. Rhodius. The recreation department will hold a water carnival Monday night at the Twen-ty-Sixth St. beach on White River.

Souvenir hunters are shown carrying away parts of the wreckage.

LILLY WILL BE BURIED HERE Former Indianapolis Man Died in Massachusetts. Funeral services for John Miller Hilly, who died at Weston, Mass., Thursday, will be held here Monday, r T -o&|p8 Mr. Hilly was JMlll active in business I mWm in Indianapolis for i! man y years, I ';§ having engaged in R _Jjaßg||i||| the varnls b, tile K and veneer bust f'A jjdmFA nesses. In 1921 V |j| he sold his interest I PB Varnish Company SEiUkH here and retired Ag|g|3jill| tn Weston. He HM'vfIMMMM was a member of the Columbia Lilly Club, Indianapolis country Club and the Indianapolis Gun Club. The widow, one daughter, Mrs. A. RusselPAtwater, Boston, Mass.; two sisters. Miss Eunice Hilly, Mt. Clemens, Mich , and Mrs. H. W. Churchill, White Plains, N. Y. and a brother Charles Lilly, Los Angeles, Cal., survive.

BURNED BODY IS FOUND Hands of Dead Man Tied Behind His Back. Bu T7ni*>id Press NEW YORK, Sept. s.—The badly burned body oof an unidentified man with his hands tied behind his back, was found in the smoking ruins of a motor car on the upper East Side today. The car had been saturated with gasoline. Its license plate had been removed, but the rust line left by plates were believed by police to indicate the machine had borne New Jersey plates. HEAT CAUSES LEMON BOOST Acute Shortage Results in Price Increase. Hot weather has created an acute lemon shortage in the city, according to local commission merchants. At the present time lemons sell for $lO a crate and if the hot spell continues prices will soar to $lB or even higher, they say. Lemons were quoted at 30 and 40 cents a dozen on city market. This price Is below wholesale and the merchants can do this only because they have an extra supply on hand. Chicago commission men wired Indianapolis for lemons to meet demands there, but local men were un-

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This is a close-up of the tangled wreckage, showing the helium gas tank just below the center of the photo, slightly to the left.

able to comply because of demand here. , Other prices were. Bartlett pears 10 cents a pound, sugar pears two pounds for 25 cents; beans two pounds for 15 cents; sugar corn 25 cents a dozen; pink meat cantaloupes 15 cents each; Tokay grapes 20 cents a pound; pickles are higher at 30 and 60 cents a hundred; Grimes Golden apples sold on the curb five pounds for 25 cents; Johnathans were three pounds for 25 cents, and large watermelons sl. Poultry prices ranged from 35 and 38 cents on live stock to 40 and 43 cents on dressed material. Eggs sold at 38 to 43 cents a dozen and butter 50 cents a pound. NOBODY CARED FOR HER Guardians’ Ward Runs Away After Alleged Quarrel. Bu Times Special BROWNSTOWN, Ind., Sept. 5. “Nobody loves me, and that Is w r hy I ran away.” So spoke Miss Blanche Baird, 16, charge of Jackson County board of Children’s Guardians, who left Monday from th-3 home of Dallas Spray, near here. A posse found her on Thursday night emerging from a cornfield to enter a barn to sleep. She said sho existed on watermelons, cantaloupes and green corn.

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Only two of these Shenandoah officers survive- Left to right: Commander Zachary Lansdowne, killed; Lieut.-Com. L. Hancock, killed; Lieut. J. P. Lawrence, killed; Lieut. A. R. Houghton, killed; Lieut. E. W. Sheppard, killed; Lieut. C. E. Basch, escaped uninjured; Chief Machinist S. S. Hallisburton, escaped uninjured.

This is a view of the super-dirigible, the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation of Akron, Ohio, plans to build, contrasted in size with the Shenandoah and the Los Angeles. \

EXTRA CARS TO FAIR PROVIDED Street Railway Company to Augment Service. Additional street cars sufficient to handle the augmented State fair week traffic will be placed in service over three lines of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company Monday morning. Extra service will begin at 6 a. m. daily and will continue until the fairground is cleared at night. Cars will be rim on the Central and College Ave. lines every five minutes and on the Illinois St. line every four minutes. The trip from Washington St. to the fairground loop will be thirty minutes. The Street Railway Company will maintain a commissary at the fairground for employes. Illinois St. fairground cars will be designated by green signs, Central Ave. cars with red signs and College Ave. cars with blue signs. The regular schedules to other parts of? the city will be maintained.

RICH RESIDENT DEAD Edward Thistletlnvaitp Succumbs at Daughter’s Home. Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Sept! 5. Edward Thistlethwaite, 74, the only Nob) sville resident rated sis a millionaire, died Friday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. H Griffin. He was stricken with paralysis a week ago. Six children survive. He was born at Richmond, Ind. He owned 30,000 acres of Louisiana timberland and was interested in a number of Indiana banks. CLOSE CAMP FOR POOR Salvation Army Gives Outings to 600 Persons. The Salvation Army fresh air camp, thirteen miles northeast of Indianapolis, ended Its summer camping season Friday. Maj. William B. Sowers, divisional commander, said 600 poor mothers and children were given an outing during the summer. According to Dr. Herbert T. Wagner, physician who examined each camper before and after leaving camp, most of them gained five pounds in weight while there. Local civic clubs assisted the camp by providing cottages .and programs at various times.

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Franklin Masters, chief petty officer of tho Shenandoah, and his family. Masters had planned a parachute drop at Akron, Ohio, to see his new baby, which arrived Sunday. He escaped death by dropping from a girder as the blimp neared the ground.

CITY TO INVITE HUMANEGROUP Hargon Will Campaign For 1926 Convention. Backed by the convention bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, W. P. Hargon, president of the Indiana Federation of Humane Societies, will launch a campaign to obtain the 1926 convention of the American Humane Society for Indianapolis. Hargon will be Indiana representative at the 1925 convention In Toledo, Oct. 5, 6 and 7. Hargon has requested Governor Jackson and Mayor Shank to Issue formal letters of invitation v to Indianapolis. Educational work to protest ani-

main from cruelty, which also will save shippers, packers and the public thousands of dollars, Is being conducted by the society, according to Hargon. DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE Myers for Mayor Chib Formed by Irvington Citizens. The Democratic municipal campaign was started in Irvington with the organization of a Myers-for-Mayor Club at the Irvington Masonic Temple. Officers elected were: Luther Shirley, president; J. Franklin Pitts, first vice-president; Mrs. Phil Zoercher, second vice president; Mrs. Ella Dawson, secretary, and T. D. Moffitt, treasurer. Directors chosen were: Edward W. Felt, Mrs. Thomas Ellis, Dr. Silas J. Carr, W. D. Hedrick and Dr. W. F. Kelly. Walter Myers will address a meetlng sponsored by the club Bept. 17. >• n .

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