Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1926 — Page 1

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BUS LINES LOSE; TRIPS CURTAILED Red Ball Company Seeking to Save Money, Receiver Announces. 31 DAILY RUNS STOPPED Patronage Falls Osf —Action 4 Called ‘Temporary.’ Bus operation has been losing business since its inception, Fred I. Jones, receiver for the Indiana . Red Ball Lines, Inc., said today in announcing suspension of thirty-one trips between Indianapolis and State cities. Service reductions were made on the Elwood, Clinton, Crawfordsville, Lafayette, Greensburg and Martinsville lines. “In accordance with the policy of the receiver for the Indiana Red Ball Lines to cut expenses to the minimum, it has been found necessary to reduce schedules,” Jones said. “Operation has been on a losing basis since its inception. It is the hope of the receiver, however, to operate on this reduced schedule until increased patronage makes additional trips necessary:” .Tones announced the “schedules show the time at which busses may be expected to arrive at and depart from the several stations but their arrival or departure at the time stated Is not guaranteed." Jones called the new arrangement •temporary winter schedules.” FAMILY FIVE SLAIN Police Believe Father Killed Four, Slashed Throat. It/ I nited Press NEW YORK, Jan. B.—Police believe today that Thomas King beat his wife and three children to death with a baseball bat and then slashed his throat. The five bodies were found in the King apartment. The gas had been ajurned on.

SNOWFALL DUE TO . CONTINUE TONIGHT i A/hite Blanket Descends Upon City—Traffic Hampered —Saturday Expected to Be Cloudy.'

Real winter weather again came ;o Indianapcflu today with a heavy snowfall which started about 7 a. (h. and which, according to the United States Weather Bureau, is due to continue through today and INSULL SEEKS THREE MORE Purchase of Indiana Utilities Is Petitioned. Samuel Instill, Middle Western public utilities “czar," reached out today for three more Indiana utilities valued at $190,244.An Insull firm. The Indiana Service Corporation of Ft. Wayne, the public service commisMdorvfor permission to buy the Berne Electric Light Company, valued at $64,371; the Bryant Electric Company, valued at $37,993, and the Wells County Electric Company, valueg at $97,879. All are located in the northeastern par*, of Indiana. With these three companies the Insull utilities will provide thirtyseven towns with fransportataion and thirty-nine communities with electric service. Permission to transfer the Marion and Bluffton Traction Company, purchased recently by the Calumet Gas and Electric Company, another Insull concern, to the Service Corporation also was asked. POLICE WATCH DANCE HALLS Chief Determined on Midnight Ruling. I'lans to close all public dances at midnight was announced by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson today. Dance promoters will be required to secure permits good for one day until midnight only, he said. Only P>ne permit will be Issued at a time, le saSd. Sergeant of Policewomen Rachel Schwier and Policewomen Mary Moriarity and Laurel Thayer were assigned to enforcement of the regulations. Member dances in clubs are not affected by the regulations, but club dances where admission is charged must heed the midnight curfew. Johnson declared.

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1926 Will See Indianapolis l-eal estate and business men predict the following in the city's development this year: A slight retard in downtown office building construction. More building on the side streets in “the mile square. Increase In number of apartment buildings. Biggest institution, school and hotel building program ip years. Expansion of the city’s suburban limits. Less out-of-town speculation and more local Investments. Decrease In rentals. A decided increase in the number of moderate priced homes. More community centers.

ACTIVE BUILDING YEAR FORESEEN IN INDIANAPOLIS Real Estate and Business Men Predict Prosperous , Twelve Months. By Charles O&rll Indianapolis will enjoy one of Its most prosperous years during 1926, real estate and business men predicted today. Indications point to a "banner twelve months for all types of industries, and the progress of real estate development will exceed last year, they said. There may be slight changes in the general run of construction and building as it is believed erection of new downtown business buildings, will be retarded. Realtors and business men said last year was remarkable for business building and" rental buildings space in the business district probably will suffice without further additions. Area Extended There will, however, be a record' amount of building and development in sections within the mile square downtown, they declared. It is sail that there Jhas been a lack of development in th* past half-decade along side streets and thoroughfares directly adjacent to the main downtown lanes. “It is the general belief that the smaller and less prominent down(Turn to Page 22)

tonight. Saturday is expected to be cloudy, but without snow. The white blanket, which fell steadily through the morning, was fine, and rather “wet.” It was drifted somewhat by a wind from the east. Tempterature dropped 2 degrees during the morning, registering 24 at 7 a. m. and 22 at noon. The 7 a. m, mark was 4 degrees below normal. Traffic was hampered to some degree by the fall, drivers finding it necessary to clean their windshields often. There is danger of traffic tie-ups in the city and over the State if the snow continues through the night, officials said. No change in temperature is pre-dicted-for tonight. The lowest mark is expected to be about 25 degrees. / HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 23 10 a. m 28 7 a. m 24 11 a. m...... 22 8 a. m. 23 12 (noon 22 9 a. m 23 1 p. m. 2J~ FIRE UESTROYS BAPTIST CHURCH Woodruff Place Structure Razed by Blaze. Fire early today destroyed the Woodruff Place Baptist Church, Walcott and Michigan Sts., causing a damage estimated at $50,000. Fire officials said the blaze evidently started from an overheated furnace. The Rev. L. C. Trent, pastor saw the flames leaping from* the church while at his home, 411 *N. Arsenal Ave. The Rev. Trent said there had been a prayer meeting in the building late Thursday. Plans were being made by Leon Joyce, board of trustees chairman, to replace the church, which was a frame structure. Sparks in a house at 1203 Kentucky Ave., owned by the Union Trust Company, started a fire that caused a $25 damage. STILL IN BASEMENT Many Legal Troubles Faced By Mrs. Sallie Yates. Mrs. Sallie Yates, 34, Negro, 2325 Northwestern Ave., had all kinds of legal troubles today, \ First she found herself facing ejection from her home, for failure to joay rent, and Constable George B. Davis, moving her furniture out on the street. Davis stopped when it came to moving a still he found in the basement. Motor Policemen Chitwood and Caldwell, took the still and Mrs, Yates to city prison where she i* bald.

FOUR COPS CALLED IN BRIBE QUIZ Chief to See Police Charged by Remy With Taking , Liquor, Tobacco. —, — FEDERAL QUIZ POSSIBLE / Grand Jury May Act —Suspension Considered. Four patrolmen, charged by Prosecutor William Remy with accepting liquor, cigars and oigurets as bribes for “winking” at fi&graut liquor laW violations, were ordered before Police Chief Claude F. Johnson this afternoon to answer to the charges. The four are among a number of Indianapolis officers whom Remy charges are implicated in statements made by bootleggers arrested In recent Federal dry raids here. Three men. said by Remy to have made sworn statements against the officers, have been ordered to be present. Johnson said. If the officers admit the charges they will be suspended at once, the chief said. If they deny the charges they will afce their accusers. Others Involved A number of other policemen are involved in statements made by poolroom operators and case proprietors arrested in the recent Federal raids, Remy said. A drug clerk today reported a policeman who secured alcohol from him. A number of persons are resporting cases by telephone, but refuse to give their names, he said. Federal grand jury will investigate the police force situation if Prosecutor Remy turns the evidence over to him, United States Dietrict Attorney Albert Ward said. The Government will not act unless sufficient evidence is submitted and an investigation deemed necessary, be said. Harris Investigating Deputy Prohibition Administrator A. R. HArrirs is investigating alleged drinking on the part of police officers at a suburban dance resort New Year's Eve. A Federal prohibition officer at the place reported to Harris that the police did not cooperate with him in arresting violators and that police were seen drinking with patrons.

‘ROBBER,’ SAYS WOMAN VICTIM

Mrs. Bickerstaff Talks; Then Relapses Into Coma. Awakening momentarily again from the coma that has sealed her Ups slncq she was cruelly beaten in her home, 3412 E. Twenty-Fifth St., Monday bight, Mrs. Albert Bickerstaff early today strengthened the policy theory of robbery. “Oh! the robbers! P4d they get them?” she stammered and lapsed back into unconsciousness. Detective Inspector Michael J. Glenn believes she awakened and saw a burglar before he crushed her skull with a revolver. Thursday she opened her eyes, and, seeing her husband, said: “Oh, he tried to kill me. He hit me twice.” She relapsed before she was able to describe “him.” TAX CHANGES OFFERED King Would lift Auto and Amusement Levies. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—Amendments to the Federal tax revision bill was Introduced In the Senate today by Senator King* Utah, Democrat, providing reduction In the corporation tax from 12V6 to 10 per cent and complete repeal of all taxes on admissions, automobiles and capital stock. ( BOY AND TWO BOTTLES Found in Raid by PPottcc; Other Arrests Are Made. A Technical High School boy was found with two empty bottles, in which he said he wa* to get moonshine, by ergeant O’Connnor and squad in a raid at 318 Muskingum St., early today. , Two Negroes, Jess Carter, 27. and Priscilla Coleman, 25, were charged with operating a blind tiger and five others with vagrancy. The boy said he never before had been there, but had been told by other students that liquor could be obtained. FERGUSON / TESTIFIES Testifying in his own behalf today, John R. Ferguson, 2640 Allen Ave., in Criminal Court denied drinking before the automobile crash last March in which three men were killed at Troy Ave. and Bluff Rd. ' Ferguson testified after the State rested - the manslaughter case against hinj * Emsley Johnson, defending Ferguson, characterized McKinley Alfprd, Loogootee. Ind., driver of the other car, a speed maniac in his opening statement. The case was expeotad to gp to the jury before night.

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MOTHER OVERJOYED WITH

PHOTO OF LONG LOST SON

Photograph of Francis Murray Shown to His Mother.

HEALTH BOARD MEETING WILL GET OPPOSITION Definite Steps Expected to Be Taken —Jdckson Plea on Deaf Ears. With Governor Jackson taking an active hand in the State board of health chaos, definite steps will be taken within the next two days to forestall a board meeting Monday, at which charges of neglect are to lie heard against Dr. William F. King, secretary. Attorney General Arthur L. Oilliom has been asked to bring Impeachment action against the three members of the board who are championing the King; attack, it was also learned. In the face of Jackson s plea for harmony in the board, members or the insurgent trio declared today that they will hear the-- chargee against King next Monday, as anI nounced. As long as King Is secretary of the board, chaos will continue. one member declared. “We Intend to take care of that matter Monday.” was the reply of I>r. Homer C. Haas, Peru, to Governor Jackson’s entreaty to settle down to business or resign. In answer to Jackson’s declaration that the charges of neglect against Dr. King are “frivolous,” Dr. T s Victor Keene of Indianapolis, leader of the anti-Klpg forces, said, “When the charges are brought out In the hearing it will be determined whethei they are frivolous.” Referring to letters sent out by Jackson to the three members asking them to desist in their attack against Dr. King, Keene said, “The Governor’s letter undoubtedly will receive all the consideration It merits.” Another letter was sent Dr. James A. Turner of Nashville, carrying the same admonitions as those to Haas and Keene. None was sent, 'however, to Dr. John H. Green of North Vernon, board president. In the letter, Jackson cited an opinion of Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom In which the latter declared that any group of members of the board is powerless to prosecute charges against another member. LICENSE FEES ART DUE Buser Says Cleanup Will Start Next Week. Cleanup next week of persons falling to pay fees for various city licenses was promised today by City Controller William C. Buser. Delinquent persons will he given the remainder of the week to pay up, Buser said. Special attention will be given to poolrooms. FLAPPER FANNY sa&w I SSI jT X Hf . % _ CIM e> wi amvicx me. A fellow doesn’t have to be an antique dealer to poll a lot of old staff.

Sees V Features of Missing Youth for First Time Thirteen Years. By Kldora Field i r ""i OODBY MU VVER,” tearful f . three-year-old Francis Mur--Iray called to his mother, Mrs. Margaret Murray Long, 434 Raymond St., one day, thirteen years ago. as she closed the door of the Indianapolis Orphans’ home. “Hello mother,” that same boy greeted today from a photograph received by the Times from a Houston (Texas) hospital. The photograph was incontrovertible evidence to her that the boy she parted with that dreary day in. the orphans’ home, and who now lies in the Texas hospital, both hands gone as the result of-an explosion of a torpedo, is her son, lost all thesfe years. “I’d have known him'anywhere,” the mother declared. “Anywhere. the dear dear boy.” “Doesn't the boy look wonderful —no well and so sweet, and I expected him. to'look, so terrible,” the mother kept murmuring, never taking her eyes off the pioture. Beyond Words Mrs. Long learned of the boy’s whereabouts through a copy of The Times, carrying; the story through a Texas dispatch. The accident dims but slightly the mother’s Joy at finding her son. “I am grateful beyond words that he is alive and that I have found him,” she declared, “Only a mother cat, realise how I feel about it, in spite of his injury." When the photograph was first put into her hands she seemed afraid to look at it. “The poor child, I guess he must look terrible,” she commented, then took the picture over to a light. Slowly, then eagerly, she looked at the pictured face. Great tears welled into her dark eyes. She tried to speak, but could not, and turned away to recover herself. "My dear, my dear," she murmured bending her face close to the picture and If far off Francis Murray was thinking of his mother he must have got the message that went straight from her loving heart. "I want my boy—here with me,” she said when she could speak, “and this accident is not going to spoil his life. We won’t let It.” The stepfather of Francis Owen Long, who has never seen the boy, comforted ’his wife and agreed. "We'll do all we can. everything," he said. But the family has little money and the stepfather is a cripple, with one leg. He is employed every day at E. C. Atkins Saw Works. To Be Sent Home Through the publicity given the story through The Times and The , Houston Press, a Scrtpps-Howard newspaper, the Houston Optimist Club is planning to send Francis home as soon as he is able, aceom- ! panied by Fred Newland, superintendent of (he Bayland (Texas) home for boys. Francis will be able to travel' in about three weeks. The accident occurred when the boy was examining the pockets of a pair of overalls at tlje fair concession, whore he was employed in Houston. A "live” torpedo in a pocket exploded. The amputation of his hands and a plastic operation on his abdomen were necessary. “But we’ll make him forget all | that,” the mother'declares, bravely. | "All I want is 'to get him here — ! to be able to do for him; tqr show 1 him that we love him.” !• __ STEEL rates protested Kansas City Charges Discrimination —lndiana Centers Named. Btt United Press IWASHINGTON, Jan. B.—Kansas city steel companies protested to ! the Interstate Commerce Oommls I sion today against present rates on | iron and steel materials moving from i St. Louis, MOj, and South Chicago, j Granite City and East St. Louis, 111., ! and steel centers In Ohio, Indiana |and Pennsylvania, to points In OklaI homa and Texas. The complaints said rates are unreasonable and unjustly disertminaUmi -n

lOWANS MEET TO PLAN FIGHT FORFARM AID Call for Conference of Nine Corn States to Be Issued. By United Press DES MOINES, lowa, Jan. B. Fifty representative lowan s gathered here today for the first' conference of the Agriculture Advisory committee appointed tnls week by Governor John Jfemlll. The committee is composed of farm and in'dustrial leaders, educators, bankers, professional men, and publishers, all with a single purpose in miiid—lo wwjti ‘the middle west Into a solid phaljffix'for securing farm relief legislation in Congress. Out of the committee an executive council will be selected, em? powered to call together representative leaders from the nine corn belt States for an “all-oorn area conference" next month. STATE MINERS FACE SUFFERING Relief Plans Rushed in Southern Indiana. Bv Times Pnecial •EVANS’! iLLE, Ind„ Jan. B.—With continued snow and colder weather In prospect, preparations were rushed today to care for 800 coal miners in Warrick, Gibson and Vanderburgh Counties, who quit nonunion mines this week, pending negotiations between operators and union officials. Harvey Cartwright of Rfcknell, vice president of District No. H, United Mine Workers, said clothing and food would be ready by Monday at the latest.

GIRL, BANNED PROM ‘DATES’ RUNS AWAY Miss Edith Bakery 15, Missing Since Church Service Thursday Night—Went Riding With Friend.

Police were asked today to search for Edith Baker,‘l6, of 1402 Pleasant St., whO, according to her faClaude Baker, ran away because she was not permitted to have "dates.” The left home early- Thursday evening to go to a meeting at the Edwin Ray M. E. Church, only a block from her home. The father STORMS, FLOODS SWEEP EUROPE Waters Reported Falling in Germany, Belgium. Dispatches from London today told of landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and icy floods that are making Europe’s new year miserable. In addition there are snow, thunderstorms and gales. Abnormal weather conditions are being experienced from the Baltic sea well toward the tip of the Balkan peninsula. In Germany and Belgium, floods are falling. In France and Britain, waters are still rising. Even the Thames Is miles} wide in many places. Dispatches said the situation in Paris is acute. Unconfirmed dispatches have also been received from Mexico, telling of disastrous floods in the State of Noyarlt. Five hundred dead are re-

Entered aa Second-elans Matter at Poatofflce, Indianapolis. Published Dally Except Sunday.

$3,000,000 COURTHOUSE IS'PROPOSED C. of C. Civic Affairs Secretary, in Ref port, Favors New Office Type Building to House County Offices. WOULD LEASE PART OF SITE r . . u*''',?! Harrison Says Practically All Moneji ' Could Be Obtained by Dividing Block. Erection of anew Marion County courthouse of the moderr office-building type, at a cost of approximately $3,000,000, was recommended today by Leonard V. Harrison, secretary of the civic affairs committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting of the committee.

DUVALL HAS CALLERS Thirty Greet Mayor When Ho Reaches Office. About thlAy persons were In line waiting to sed Mayor Duvall today when he arrived at city hall. He received each singly. Louis Brown, Coffin worker, who asked a temporary order restraining the board of works from opening bids on flood prevention work; Judge Mahlon E. Bash, who administered Duvall the oath of office; Cassius L. Hogle, county commissioner, and John E. Milnor, park board member named by Shank on the eve of his retirement, were among the callers. GRILL SARGENT IN ALUMINUM TRUSTINQUIRY Attorney General Admits He Knows Little About Investigation. Bv United Prtss WASHINGTON. aJn. B.—Attorney General John G. Sargent told the Walsh coipmittee today that he did not know much about ihe Investigation of vhe Department of Justice into the aluminum “trust,” controlled by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Sargent, grilled by Senator Thomas J. Walsh, who bared the Teapot Dome scandals, admitted a newspaper man was the first on* to tell him that Attorney General Stone, -his successor, had written a letter, holding the aluminum company was violating the anti-trust law. Sargent said It was about Oct. 16. 1 Sargent admitted he personally did nothing, when Walsh asked him how determined he was to get every bit of evidence possible from the Federal Trades Commission. The committee adjourned until 10 a. m., tomorrow. Sargent will resume the stand.

discovered at daylight she had not returnod. “I don’t allow Edith to have dates or boy tompany. We’ve had considerable trouble over thlß. A few weeks ago, I had to whip her for going out with a bjy, and I’ve noticed—so has my wife, that she seemed “very unsettled and dissatisfied at home. I think she stayed out with someone last night and was afraid to come home,” Baker said. Walter Rothermell, 1636 Pleasant St., Baker said, admitted Edith went riding with him Thursday night, but said he had left her at the church door at 8:30 p. m. Rothermell said he afterward had trouble with his machine and It was some time after this —he didn’t know just when—he got to his own home. Baker and his wife, the girl’s stepmother, said Edith has no Intimate friends with whom she might be staying. “I don’t allow her to go with the young folks to any extent,” the father- declared “They’re all so wild nowadays.” Edith has black bobbed hair, blue eyes and weighs about 115 pounds. She was wearing a dark brown coat, a small brown and tan slippers. AUTO SHOW vTO OPEN Bp Times Special NEW YORK. Jan. 8. The twentieth-sixth annual automobile show will open here Saturday afternoon. .More than 300 r.hasses and oomplete representing fifty makes-of cars, will be represented. rmifHin *u~ run.

Forecast UNSETTLED tonight and Saturday; probably light snow tonight,; not*much change - in temperature.

TWO CENTS

Harrison’s proposal, a result o. weeks of study, is this: That the present courthouse he razed and the Washington St. side of tiie county property -i>e leased for ninety-nine years. That the new building be erected on the Market St. side. That the lease proceeds be used to pay over a period of years virtually the entire cost of erection of the new building. County commissioners refused U say whether they favored Harrison’i plan or not. It Is understood, how ever, that a complete remodeling oi the present structure with a wins added would be favored by them They said Harrison conferred wit) them several months ago, when he was surveying the utilization o space at the courthouse. Points Out Need Harrison pointed out that there it a real need for more facilities at the courthouse and that these could be obtained through remodeling the present structure or through con structlon of anew building. He ad vised against remodeling, as beinj considerably more expensive to the taxpayers and expressed the opinion that the plan he proposed wuuli 1 cost taxpayers very little. “Extensive remodeling of th present courthouse, it is estimated will cost $500,000, and will provld* from 25 to 33 1-8 per cent more additional space,” he said. "The inevitable future growth oi courts and offices will require the building of new wings to the old structure In a few years if the remodeling plan is adopted. The cost of remodeling and erection of new wings would go far toward covering the cost of the new building. “By abandoning the present build ing and realizing on the sale of the Washington St. frontage a modern new building could be erected at a smaller net cost than would be Incurred in remodeling the old structude building new wings. . Need Offloe Building . "Modern county office require ments demand the office building type of multiple-storied building. It is obvious that the courthouse square Is many times larger than Is needed as the site or sites for a multiple-storied courthouse main building and later year annexes. At least one-half of the courthouse site could be disposed of. "In placing the Washington St frontage up for cash sale It would be difficult to obtain full value. “By leasing the south half of th courthouse site for ninety-nine years Marion County could derive income sufficient to pay full cost and inter est charges of & new building de voted exclusively to county usee, costing In the neighborhood of $3,000,000. . I Advantages Over Sale “Advantages of the lease arrange mens over sale would be: 1. To enable the county Immediately to realize upon a higher per front foot property valuation. 2. To give the county the benefit of appreciation In value of the property over a long period of years. 3 To enable the county to writs the equivalent of taxes into the year-' ly lease rentals even though the ground Is tax-exempt to the lessee; and thus enjoy all of the benefit which would have to be divided among other local taxing units if the property were sold. 4. To retain the title would give an opportunity many years later to make another decision as to how the property should used thence forward. Pay Much of Cost “If the south half of the court house site should be leased on the basis of prevailing lease rental rates the revenue would pay for the Interest and debt retirement charge* on anew courthouse costing around $3,000,000 within forty-four to fortysix years and the cost to taxpayers, excepting interest charges during th© period of construction of anew building and clearing the old site, would be nil. “Should it be found that there are legal difficulties in the way of leasing a portion of the courthouse plot at the present time, It would seem desirable to postpone action on courthouse until an effort could be made at the legislative session In 192? to secure legislation specifically authorising Marion Oountar to lease the ground."