Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1925 — Page 2

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HOME SEARCH RIGHT HANDED ANOTHER JOLT Discharges Two on Liquor Appeals—Charges Evidence Lacking. The right of an officer to search a home to obtain evidence received another jolt Wednesday afternoon when Criminal Judge James A. ColHfla discharged Raymond Humble and Leo Vachet, both of 422 E. Vermont St., who appealed from city court on blind tiger convictions. In the lower court each were SIOO and costs and given thirty days on the Indiana State Farm. Lieutenant Cox testified he Watched the apartments of the two defendants for several days and observed men leave with packages. A Search warrant then was obtained from Justice of Peace Henry H. Spiher.and the apartments searched, Cox said, a quantity of liquor being confiscated. Not to Get Evidence Judson L. Stark, deputy prosecutor, insisted Lieutenant Cox did not enter the home to get evidence. "I do not wish to take issue with the court, but the officer entered the home to get liquor to destroy,” said Stark. But the court reminded Stark that prosecution against the defendants followed. “There was a proper and lawful way to obtain evidence,” said Judge Collins. “I believe the officers try to do their duty as directed, and this has resulted in the invasion of thousands of India.napolis homes. Case Under Advisement ' Judge Collins took the case of Mrs. Mayme Stroupe, 111 Vz N. Alabama St., charged with blind tiger, under advisement until Monday. Mrs. Stroupe appealed from city court where she was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to ninety days in jail. Lieutenant Cox testified he found thirty-eight one-half pints of white mule in Mrs. Stroupe’s Hotel. She said it belonged to one of her roomers.

CITY IS READY FOR CHRISTMAS (Continued From Page 1) gion. Fire Chief John J. O'Brien and Mayor Shank sponsored the affair. Fire Station Entertainment Under direction of Capt. John Feeney 600 persons were guests at an entertainment at fire station 21, at Olr.ey St. and Roosevelt Ave. Wednesday night. State, city and county institutions planned giving patients and inmates a treat at Christmas programs, with special dinners. Hospitals will have Christmas parties and serve special menus. Luncheon clubs this week observed the holiday season in programs, many giving cheer to unfortunates. Readers of The Indianapolis Times played the Santa Claus role to more than 100 needy families, names being secured through the Family Welfare Society Christmas clearing house. ■ City recreation department plans singing carols at hospitals and in various sections of the city early Christmas morning, R. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent, announced. Parks Decorated Monument Circle and city parks decorated with Christmas trees by the park department, attracted citywide attention. Christ Church vested choir will Sing at Riley and Long Hospitals early Friday. Many other organizations planned singing carols. Late Christmas shoppers thronged the downtown streets making lasthour purchases. Early street cars were loaded with persons carrying bundles to be mailed. Various public utilities and private businesses cheered employes with presents and salary bonuses. “Army” to Be Host The Salvation Army will play Santa Claus to about 3,000 poor children tonight at Tomlinson Hall, when candy, fruit and toys will be distributed following an entertainment. Lists of needy persons were furnished tp individuals who wished to make contributions. Five hundred baskets were distributed to needy families today. The baskets contained a chicken, sugar, coffee, butter, canned milk, syrup, canned corn, j>eas and tomatoes, bread, crackers, potatoes, turnips, onions and apples. Amos T. Mack, benevolent chairman of Murat Shriners, said several hundred families will be remembered with baskets. Distribution will start as early as 6 a. m. Members will contribute automobiles to carry the baskets over the city. The fund was recently raised at a Shrine ceremonial. Parties Planned E. J. Gausepohl, Shriners entertainment chairman, said about 3,000 children will attend the party for members’ children Monday from 2 to B p. m. Adults will attend a party at 8 p. m. Columbia Club will have an informal dinner dance tonight and a special noon and evening dinner Friday. E. P. Ekin, secretary, announced special entertainment will be provided at the evening dinner, followed by dancing. Indianapolis Athletic Club will have a regular dinner dance tonight Stubborn sores kj and inflammations quickly yield to Resinol

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Martin Healey, 1822 Central Ave., a mail carrier since April 1, 1886, today looked forward to his first Christmas day at home in thirty-njne years. On every Christmas day he has been a carrier, prior to this year. Healey came to work at 4 a. ni. and worked until late in the afternoon, delivering Christmas mail and packages. “It will seem strange not to come to the postofflee Christmas day,” he said. “We used to work all day and not even have time enough to eat lunch. “It also will seem fine to sit

and a special Christmas program and dance Friday night. Madam Theo Hewes dancers will entertain. Hoosier Athletic Club will have a party and dance for members Saturday night. Boy Scouts Aid Boy scouts generally observed the holidays by doing “good turns,” for friends and neighbors, Chief F. O. Belzer said. Many aided in distribution of gifts and helped poor people. American Settlement House, €l7 W. Pearl St., will have a Christmas program tonight at 7 p. m. Junior Chamber of Commerce members will distribute presents to more than 200 children of all nationalities. Glenn Campbell as St. Nicholas will come down the chimney at 8:15 and present each child with a sack of candy and other presents. Chamber of Commerce members raised a fund for building and case employes, V. D. Vincent, building manager said. John Brandon, Kahn Tailoring Company advertising manager said employes will distribute 300 baskets containing toys and food to needy families. Family Welfare Society conducted a Christmas clearing 'house for charitable organizations and individuals to prevent duplication of gifts to overlooked families. Several hundred families received aid through the cooperation. Hospitals Remembered Santa Clause, gifts, and programs of songs found their way into every ward in Indianapolis hospitals. Special attention was given children at hospitals. Christmas morning 14<> nurses from James Whitcomb Riley and Robert W. Long hospitals will form a carolling procession through the wards awaking the children. Riley Cheer Guild No. 6 will distribute gifts through a Santa Clause Christmas night at Riley Hospital. Trees were provided by the park hoard. Public Health Nursing Association junior auxiliary will have charge of the program Christmas night at Iy>ng Hospital. Troop No. 75 of Boy Scouts will give a motion picture show. A Christmas tree was placed in the Methodist Hospital children’s ward. Student nurses and Camp Fire Girls of Second Presbyterian Church will give a program of carols. Santa to Be There St. Vincent’s nurses' choir will sing early Friday morning. Trees will be placed in the nurses’ home and children’s ward. Santa will distribute gifts sent in by friends. Indianapolis Advertising Club entertained Wheeler City Mission children at luncheon today at the Claypool: Rev. H. E. Eberhardt, mission superintendent, gave a Christmas message. Frank Flanner, Christmas party chairman, presided. Gifts were presented. Indianapolis Exchange Club members distributed baskets today from the Lincoln, following a talk by Dr. E. H. Mills, at luncheon. Forty-four baskets were sent out by the recreation club of the county recorder’s office. Orphans at Jjeneralj Protestant Orphans’ Homo will give ,an elaborate program at the home, 1404 S. State Ave., Sunday at 2 p. m., under direction of Adolph G. Ziegler, superintendent. Henry Walters, president, will extend greetings. .Soldiers Remembered E. Bert Allen, American Red Cross field director, will distribute gifts to patients in Ft. Benjamin Harrison Post Hospital. Cigarets, toilet ar-' tides, candy and clothing will be given. Entertainment Will be given, at 3:30 p. m. Friday. Women’s;

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down to a real Christmas dinner. In the old days, by the time I was through carrying mail ail day, I used to be so tired I hardly coujrf appreciate the dinner my wife had worked so hard to prepare. “I know all the boys appreciate the opportuntiy to have the holiday and we are in debt to Postmaster Robert H. Bryson.” Healey started carrying mail in the old Irish Hill district, then in the vicinity of Noble and Washington Sts. He then distributed mail in E. Washington St., to Noble St. He later worked? the courthouse and now carries in the Guaranty and Kahn Bldgs.

Overseas Service League will assist in presenting gifts. Carols will be sung tonight by the vested choir of Christ's Church, Monument Circle, at a candle light service at 5 p. m. today. Candles carried by the choir will be the only illumination in the church, Dr. Floyd Van Kuren, rector, said. Services with communion will be held at 8 and 10 a. m. Christmas day. Sunrise services will be held at Zion Evangelical Church at 8 a. m. Friday. Chimes will be played from 6:30 to 7. “Why Christ Came in a Human Form,” will be the topic of Rev. Frederick Daries. pastor. At St. Paul's St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will have services at 10:30 p. m. with holy communion at 11 tonight. Special music is planned. Holy communion will also be held at 10 a. m. Friday. St. Matthew's Lutheran Church will have a service at 9 a. m. with the pastor conducting the opening service. All Catholic churches wil T hold midnight mass tonight and masses during Christmas morning. About.4oo, children will be guests at a program at the Broad Ripple fire station tonight. A musical program will be given and the children will be given toys and candy. Baskets will be distributed Friday. TIRE THIEF IS RESCUED Police Wee Organized Ring of Auto Accessory Takers. Police today sought the owner of an auto who is said by police to have young men working with him in an auto drove up, pointed a gun thefts from autos parked downtown. Floyd Roney, colored, janitor at the First Church of Christ at Thirteenth St. and Alabama St., told police he saw a youth take a tire from an auto parked at that corner. . Roney seized the boy and was holding him for police when a man in an organized ring of accessory at him and made him release the boy. Roney obtained the license number. SHAM BATTLE IN STORE Several Hundred Dollars in Loot Obtained by Burglars. After breaking into a drugstore owned by Alvin Light. 2201 Brookside Ave., through a rear window, burglars early today staged a sham battle with candy and other articles. Change from the pay phone and peanut machine, candy, cigarets, toilet articles and accessories valued at several hundred dollars were taken. They attempted to open the safe. DELTA TAUS BANQUET Samuel R. Harrell Elected Head of Alumni Association. One hundred members of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity attended the annual dinner of the alumni at the Columbia Club Wednesday night. Samuel R. Harrell was elected president: Alfred H. Johnson and William M. Hutchinson, vice presidents; Bimry Spradling, treasurer, and 11. L. Browning, secretary. The northern division of the fraternity will meet here Jan. 3 5 and 16. National officers and alumni and undergraduates in the Middle West will attend. The Butler chapter will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary at this conference. HMUlarhn From Slight Cold* Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets relieve the. Headache .by stopping the Cold. A Safe and Proven Uornedv The box bears the signatory of E. W. Grove, 30c.— Advertisement.

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SANTA STUFFS GOTHAM’S SOX WITH SUMMONS Wine to Flow Red and Dollars Loosely, However, for Twenty Days. Bu United Preen NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Broadway's stocking was filled with Government Christmas presents today. .Forty-one summons charging viqlation of the liquor laws had been left over night by a Santa Claus who closely resembled Emory R. Buckner, United Stales district attorney at forty-one supper clubs and cases. With each was a credit card on which it was more or less agreeably stated that the gift could and probably would be exchanged for a padlock within twenty days. Wine still will flow red and the dollars easily during the twenty days, and the Rialto is said to have been assured that no attempts will be made to close the gilded cabarets, restaurants and “speak easies’’ until after the golden harvest of New Year's and Christmas. Buckner said each proceeding is backed up by liquid testimony secured by agents in the last few days. FORTY PLACES CLOSED Liquid Christmas Spirits Scarce In Chicago’s Suburbs. Bu United Prees ' CHICAGO, Dec. 24 —Liquid Christmas spirits are scarce in Chicago’s suburbs. Federal Judge Adam Cliffe closed forty outlying cases and roadhouses by injunctions.

ARGUMENT OVER STREET OPENING Board of Works Unyielding in Determination. Whether an argument that open ing Shelby St. straight through to Washington St., instead of via Cruse St. will delay track elevation and will cost $400,000 or whethec those charges are “bluff” and “bunk” Is the question puzling south side citizens today. Meanwhile, board of works members are unyielding in their determination to route the street through Cruse St., to cost $69,000. they said at meeting Wednesday. William C. Downing, Pennsylvania Railroad superintendent, told objectors that routing the street straight probably would halt elevation of the company's tracks. A meeting of those remonstrating to the opening through Cruse St., will be held Sunday afternoon in Fountain Square Hall at Fountain Square. COMMISSIONER FIRM Taggart’s Plea for Plaza Church Buy Doesn't Move Kitley. “I have made up my mind. I will not sign the bond,” emphatically declared John Kitley, county commissioner, today, when Thomas Taggart, Indiana Democratic leader, called upon him to urge him to sign the sl,200,000 bond issue for the purchase of the two churches in the World War Memorial Plaza. Kitley is the Democratic member of the board. John McCloskey, president of the commissioners, already has signed the bond issue, but Ch-irles Sutton, third board member, has not signed it and he indicated that he does not intend to. WARD’S CAR IS FOUND Santa Claus Returns Auto of United States Ditsrict Attorney. Santa Claus returned what the meanest thief took. United States District Attorney Albert Ward was in Ottawa, 111., this morning to get his new sedan, which was stolen from a parking place in front of the Federal Bldg, several weeks ago. The car was found near Ottaway in a ditch. Ward only had the car six days before the theft and did not have it insured. INITIATION ON JAN. 23 Sahara Grotto to Take in Class at Athenaeum. O. W. Wald, Sahara Grotto monarch, today announced a class of candidates will be initiated Jan. 23, at the Athenaeum at the Saharabelle Ceremonial. A special program has been arranged for women guests. A grand ball will follow the dinner and concert by Sahara Pirates band. WFBM radio station will broadcast the concert. BUS EXTENSION ASKED Street Car Company Files Supplementary Petition. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company today fieled a supplementary petition to Its petition to extend its Madison Ave. bus line from Napoleon to Shelby Sts., The new petition asks a permit to extend the same line on Union St., from Palmer to Minnesota Sts., east on Minnesota to Madison Ave. FIRE~ DAMAGES GARAGE An overheated stove at the frame garage of J. L. Johnson, 36‘0 W. New York St., caused a fire damaging the building about S7OO, late Wednesday. Vacant house at 2360 Schofield I Ave. was damaged about SBOO bV a fire of unknown origin.

‘VAGABOND’ AUTHOR CONFABS WITH ZEUS Richard Halliburton, Back for a Square Meal, Visits Indianapolis and T ells of Journies.

By Walter I). Hickman A Yankee lad is back to the States after trying to live and act as Ulysses, character*- of Homer, was supposed to in the greatest of storybooks, “The Odyssey.” Just twenty-five he is and his name is Richard Halliburton, hailing from the good old town of Memphis, Tenn., but now claiming the wide world as his playground. I found him at Bobbs-Merrill this morning, anxious to leave Indianapofor his home town, where he is bound to have a real Tennessee Christmas with his parents. Back from Greece, he is, and he CHINESE WAR NEWS CONFLICTS Success of Christian General Is Indicated. Bu United Prree LONDON, Dec. 24.—Conflicting reports of the situation in China, where two distinct military movements are under way, reached here today. The Daily Express Peking corroi spondent reported that the forces of General Li Ching Ling were retreating southward presumably toward Shantung after the surprising success of the “Christian general.” Feng Yu Hsiang. On the other hand, doubt was cast upon earlier reports that Feng had actually invested Tien Tsin after his repulse of the hitherto victorious Li forces. Differing from the Express version, the Daily Mail’s Yangtsun correspondent claimed that Feng’s men had not entered Tien Tsin, adding that the Li forces were consolidating their positions in preparation for strong opposition to further advances by Feng troops. PARK IS GIVEN STATE Land Around I-ale James Donated by Steuben County. Through the generosity of Steuben County, approximately 600 acres of Lake James shoreland today came into possession of the State conservation department, for use as a State park, it was announced by Charles G. Sauers, assistant director. The transfer was authorized by a ' 1925 legislative act, upheld by the DeKalb Circuit Court. The new park is the first in the State to be established in the lake section. It includes a rolling, wooded landscape and about two miles of lake frontage. The tract will be preserved in its virgin state, Sauers said. QUIET TITLE TO ESTATE Judge Upholds Complaint of Delavan Smith Trustee The complaint of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, trustees, under the will of Delavan Smith publisher, against remote heirs ot Smith, was upheld in Federal Court, Wednesday afternoon by Judge Robert C. Baltzell. The trust company had filed suit to quiet title to about SBOO,OOO, the residue given under the will to the Indianapolis Foundation. Judge Baltzell's ruling will have the effect of quieting title to the fund for the Indianapolis Foundation. The trust company suit was filed against Luther M. Fairbanks and other non-resident first cousins of the late publisher. ONE IN AND ONE OUT Poolroom and Dry Saloon Proprietors Face Charges. Peter liieff, 558 W. Washington St., poolroom proprietor, was released under $2,000 bond today after lie was arrested Wednesday on grand jury capias charging him with selling liquor and maintaining a common nuisance. Bill Hughes, dry beer saloon operator at 625 S. Missouri St., is held in the county jail under $1 000 bond on a similar charge. Both men were indicted several days ago by the grand jury. Indictments were returned on order of Prosecutor William H. Remy to clean up conditions in local poolrooms. SUTHERLAND GETS POST Bu United Prree WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. Former United States Senator Howard Sutherland of West Virginia today was appointed by President Coolidge to be alien property custodian.

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is chockful of a great idea —Ulysses was a regular he-guy and that this wandering hero of Homer did stage the first glorious adventure. Halliburton, after reliving the life of Ulysses in the same place that Homer placed his hero, is back to the United States consulting the powers that be about his new book, which will be called “The Glorious Adventure,” a tale of how it feels to seek adventure as Ulysses sought It, or was supposed to, long, long ago. Talked to Zeus “When I started the glorius adventure,” Halliburton told me,” I climbed to the top of Mount Olympus and talked to Zeus. Had to do it to get the atmosphere. “Zeus was on a spree or something because he treated me badly —storm, wind and everything else. Ulysses swam the Hellespont, Just like my hero. But when I started to swim back, I ran into a terrible storm in the channel. I had no boat following me. I was swimming naked. The stonn carried me down and down on my glorious adventure. ' “I was picked up half dead by a Turkish boat and taken to Troy. Doesn’t it sound just like Homer. I went to Troy,” he told me. And then for months, this beloved vagabond who travels without a cent in his pockets, who before he was twenty-five, after leaving Princeton, bummed his way all over Europe and much of Asia, Africa and every other place, published a book, called "The Royal Road to Romance,” now one of the Bobbs-Merrill books of the year. Now He’s Broke He had to come home for two big reasons—he promised his folks that ,he would forget Ulysses for awhile and put his feet under the family table for Christmas in Memphis and also, he is broke, although his parents are wealthy. While in this country, he will give more than a hundred lectures. He docked last Saturday in New York, gave two lectures there Sunday, landed in Indianapolis this morning, left at 31 a. m. for Memphis and home. The world is Halliburton’s playground and Homer’s Ulysses is his companion. For more than a month, this man studied in the libraries of Athens. Greece. “I know that there are geographical locations in the stories of Homer,” he told me. "I know because I have been to every place visited by Ulysses.” And so this twenty-five year j>ld vagabond of literary fame goes on and on, hunting adventure grand and beauty.

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Evansville Lawyer, Who Lost Supreme Court Election by One Vote, Announces He Will Seek Democratic Nomination for Long Term. George K. I)enton, Evansville, who lost out by one vote in His contest for justice of the State Supreme Court in the 1924 election, today announced he would be a candidate for the long term as United States Senator in the Democratic primary. Denton announced he would make no fight for the nomination, which course of action he said he pursued in the race for the Supreme bench. In connection with the announcement, Denton reviewed thq contest for the place on the bench awarded to Benjamin M. Willoughl>y his Republican opponent, by Secretary of State Frederick E. Sehortemeler. His Statement “It is quite generally known, 1 think,” the statement declares, “that I carried the State by 935 votes as shown by the election returns tabulated and one file In the offices of the clerks of the ninety-two counties. I have never heard this disputed. But owing to mistakes, mostly mere clerical errors by county clerks, in certifying the results to the Secretary of State, I was declared defeated by one vote.” Judge John Rabb Enilson of Knox County, recently sustained the,election of Willoughby. Denton wus Mi- the House of Representatives from 1917 to 3919. He ran far ahead of his ticket in the election of 3918, when he was a candidate to succeed himself. Sought No Votes “I never have asked for or sought the vote of any person or any organization and kept free from all entangling alliances, and every vote I got came unsolicited,” Denton said, with reference to his race for the supreme bench. “I want the nomination for tfib Senate only if members of my i>arty think I am the most available and desirable candidate.” ALICE HARRIMAN DIES Widely Known Writer and Publisher Succumbs to Pneumonia. Bii United Prese HOLLYWOOD, Ca 1.,., Dec. 24. Mrs. Alice Harrlman, author of “The Man of Two Countries,” and widely known as a magazine writer and publisher, died of pneumonia at her home here today after u brief illness. Mrs. Harriman was born in Newport, Maine, March 12, 1863. She was head of tlie A3ice Harriman Company, book publishers, with offices tit Seattle and New York City. PRISONERS STILL AT LARGE Bu United Prree NEWCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 24. Forty-eight hours of search today has failed to disclose a trace of the three prisoners who escaped from the Henry County jail. The men hunted are Albert Hatch, 28, Harley Taylor, 26, and Fox Evans, 22. It’would take a train as long as from Washington, D. C., to New Havenfl Conn., to haul one average day’s output of the bituminous coal mines of this country.

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WAR MOTHERS’ TRIP PROPOSED Pilgrimage to Graves in l France Is Asked. Bu United Prree WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—A pH. grimage of war mothers to the • graves of their sons in Franc* at Government expense was proposed today by Representative Fish, Newr York. Fish lius presented to the House a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to arrange “as soon practloable” for a visit to the cemeteries France of mothers of more than 1,000 soldiers and sailors buried there. A similar bill was reported favorably to the House last Congress. -vVUnder the bill the President would have power to set aside Government vessels to transport the mothers abroad and return. Each mother making the tour would also receive SIOO under the bill.

HOLD-UP NOT CARRIED OUT| Arrival of Customers at 1 Restaurant Timely. The timely arrival of customer* probably prevented a hold-up at a restaurant at 620 E Walnut Hr. Wednesday night, according to police. Miss Stella Ray, waitress, said two men asked her how much money she hnd, acted suspicious and then gave her a $5 bill In payment fur a 6-cent purchase. She refused to open the register to norite change and (hey left when the customers came In. , v Thefts reported to police werei William llendren, 614 Rybolt Avo., $95 from clothes at coach repsjy yards. Alonon tracks and Twenty* Seventh Ht.; Grover Robinson, 365 J Crescent Ave. jewelry, $65; C. 1.. Corbett, Indianapolis Athletic Club, $l5O diamond stickpin; H. T. Riley, 2712 N. Capitol Ave., $77 coat; Mrs. Loulso Gray, Colonnado Apts., $92 coat and Benjamin Brunley. 454 Blake St., Christmas presents valued at S4O from parked automobile. WAR ON ‘ENDLESS CHAIN’ Attorney General Tells Coinntlssi*n Practice Is Fraudulent. War wag declared against promoters of a number of so-called end- • less chain merchandizing schemes today by the State securities commission. following receipt of an | opinion from Attorney Gentrul Arthur 1.. Gllliom that the practice, in many cases, is fraudulent. Buyers of $1 coupons, on agreement to pyramid the sale of similar certificates, are promised valuable merchandise. Coupon sales could, be carried into the billions If the scheme were pursued without interruption, Gllliom pointed out, with no specific guaranty to a single pur-! chaser. Secretary of State FrederickE. Sehortemeler announced that’ a drive would be made against companies engaging in the practice flirt' not registered with the securities commission.