Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1926 — Page 15

JAN. 15, 1926

ARMY BUILDING PROGRAM WILL BE EXTENSIVE More Than $.100,000 to Be Expended When Bill Is Passed. Time Washington Bureau. 1322 New Ycrk Avenue. WASHINGTON, Jan. IB.—A buildinsr program to cost more than 1100,000,000, for permanent barracks and hospitals for many thousands soldiers, will be begun by the War Department soon after the passage of the Wadsworth-Hill bill. The bill provides that the department may get rid of about $20,000,000 worth of surplus military reservations to provide money to start the building program. rt is sponsored by Senator Wadsworth, N. Y., and Representative Hill, Maryland, and has been passed by the Senate and favorably recommended by the House Military Affairs Committee. War Secretary Davis told the House committee that 2,500 officers and 42,000 men are still housed in temporary buildings built during the World War. These buildings are decaying rapidly, he said, nearly one-fourth of all available going to pieces during the last year, and the danger from fire is great. A system of permanent posts is contemplated by the department. Expenditures Planned Among the larger expenditures planned, by States, are the following: Maryland—Camp Meade, $5,559,000; Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $656,000; Edgewood Arsenal, $189,500; Camp Holabird, $485,000; Ft. Hoyle, $230,000. Indiana—Ft. Benjamin Harrison, $1,466,000. Pennsylvania—Carlisle Barracks, $337,000. Alabama Camp McClellan, $2,169,000; Maxwell Field, $444,000. Ohio—Erie Proving Grounds, $87,000; Fairfield Air Depot, $572,000. Nebraska —Ft. Crook, $327,000; Ft. Omaha, $70,000. I Oklahoma—Ft. Sill, $4,025,000. Texas Ft. Bliss. $1,159,000; Brooks Field, $2,188,000. Ft. Sam Houston, $8,017,500; Kelly Field, sl,958,000; Normoyle Q. M. Depot, $600,000; San Antonio Arsenal, $20,000. California Letterman General Hospital, $1,115,000; Ft. McDowell, $280,000; Rockwell Field, $71,000; Crissy Field, $30,000; Alcatraz Island, $20,000; Ft. McArthur, $37,000. Washington—Ft. George Wright, $48,000; Camp Lewis, $4,518,000. Kentucky—Ft. Thomas, $458,000. District of Columbia —Walter Reed Hospital, $3,922,000. To Be Sold Among the larger forts, reservations and parcels of real estate which the department would be authorized to sell by the bill' are the following: Pittsburgh quartermaster depot, Pennsylvania; Tullytown Arsenal, Pennsylvania; St. Paul Army building, Minnesota; Park Field, Tennessee; lots In Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Parks, Tennessee; portion of Ft. Morgan, Alabama; Ft. Gaines, Georgia; Perdido Bay reservation, Alabama; Ft. Howard, Ft. Washington, Ft. Smallwood, F*t. Armistead and Ft. F’oote, Maryland; Ft. Townsend, Washington; Ft. Wingate, New Mexico, (portion) San Diego barracks, California; Three Tree Point Reservation, Washington; Ft. Casey, Wash. Nitrate plant No. 1, at Sheffield, Ala.; Waco quarry, Alabama, and the New Cumberland general reserve depot, Pennsylvania, which were on lists for sale when the bill was defeated last year, have been withdrawn.

LODGES HAVE INSTALLATION Joint Ceremony Is Held by Maccabees. Officers for five lodges of Maccabees were installed at a joint meeting at the Denison Thursday nigto. A. W. Frye, Detroit, Mich., supreme commander; Milo Meredith, Wabash, Jnd., great commander, and E. H. Palmer, district manager, installed the following: Indiana Hive No. 206—Mrs. Etta i Thrush, oast commander: Mr*. Ella Meade ' Palmer, commander: Mrs. Orla Dee Overman. lieutenant commander: Miss Alice Lavery. record keeper: Alice M. Wiltshire, chaplain; Mrs. Adah Daugherty, musician: Lillian F. Hawkins, sergeant: Mrs. Bertha Weneke, lady-at-armii: Leona Koelling. first guard- Jeanette Coiuombe. second guard: Mrs. Laura Greiner, sentinel: Hattie E. Shaw, picket; Mrs. Hannah Hiatt, captain Tent No. 35—In line as above, H. R. Kraus. A. H. Hausmnr. George A. Shaner, J. H. Daugherty, John Blnmberg. George Icenberger, Phillip Keh-1-eln. A. Lewis Pteper, Leonard Plenpr, W. A Marsieky, August Meyers. Fred W. Peiper. Capitol City No. 88—Thomas R. Lavery, David Bland. Arthur C. Riedl. A. O. White. August H. Newberg, Oscar G. Miller. E. L. Greiner. J. Thomas Patterson. Alfred G. Clem Jolm O. Doolittle. Curtis F. Haag. National Tent No. 101—G. O. Martz, A O. Starkey. J. A. Martz. J. F. Ake. .1. N. Christiansen. Price A. Whittaker. William Hoy. William Coulombe. Harold Holder, J. M. Munn, E. J. Stanbrough. Hoosier Tent No. 188—IF. J. Edwards, E. S. Harter. William Howery. W. A. Edwards, C. L. Marlatte. F. M. Hawkins. C. C. Coombs. Meredith N. Edwards. Paul M. Edwards. J. A. Smith. George Green, B. Rcath. • THRESHERS TO MEET Indiana Brotherhood to Have Convention Jan. 19-21. Several thousand members are expected to attend the annual convention of the Indiana Brotherhood of Threshernien, which will be held in Tomlinson Hall, Jan. 19 to 21, according to Elmer Crull of Hagerstown, president. Among speakers will be Mayor Duvall, Judge Vinson H. Manifold, B. B. Clafke, Madison, Wle., and Ralph Test, Richmond, Ind. Test, a few weeks ago, roped a mad cow at the' Chicago stock yards, and saved the lives of a number of boys and girls, f attending the International Dive Stock Exposition. THIS TOWN IS WET DUBLlN—Progress toward prohibition in tho Irish Free State is reported to be so slow as to be almost negligible. In one town, Glenmaddy, according to a recent survey, •ith a population of ly, there are thirteen saloons.

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W. G. WALL IS BPEAKER Improvement in Autimobiles Is Subject Before Scientech Chib. New developments in the automobile field will be discussed by William G. Wall at the Scientech Club luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce Monday. Wall just returned from the New York automobile show. J. W. Atherton will talk on plans for Butler College.

REGULATION OF TRUCKS, BUSSES ASKED IN BILL Interstate Commerce Commission Would Be Given Jurisdiction. Time Wathinaton Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue. WASHINGTON, Jan 15.—Regulatlon of motor busses and trucks by the Interstate Commerce Commission is asked by a bill now before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. It was Introduced by Senator Cummins of lowa at the request of the American Association of Public Utility Commissioners with the hearty support of the American Association of Electric Railways and Steam Railroads. Bus operators are not opposed to it. In fact, they realize, they say, that there must be some sort of interstate regulation. They do not want to bother with a number of State permits. They are quite willing that "public convenience and necessity" should determine whether anew bus line be established or not. Truck Operators Opposed Truck operators, however, are opposed to any such regulation for themselves. They feel that the railroads are trying to squeeze them out of business. Railroads have felt In the past that motor trucks were interfering with their freight business, particularly on short hauls. Investigations made by the Bureau of Public Roads and the Interstate Commerce Commission, however, have not borne out the contention that any appreciable railroad mileage has been abandoned as a result of the motoi truck business Aid Railroads In fact, the American Automobile Association contends that motor trucks have brought to the railroads much freight which they would not have handled otherwise. Not only have they acted as feeders, . but they have also been customers of the railroads. Automobile parts, tires, etc., have constituted a big part of railway freight business in the past few years. Railroads themselves want to go into the motor bus and trucking business. Fifty-one railroads are using motor trucks as part of their shipping service at the present time. Twenty steam railroads are using motor busses. Since railroad-owned trucks and busses have to be regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission the railroads want all bus and truck operators to get the same treatment.

AUTO SHOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL Contracts for Decorating Are Let “The decorative scheme for the Indianapolis Auto Show the week of Feb. 15, will compare favorably with that of the New York exposition, says J. S. McFarland, newly elected president of the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association, who has just returned from the big Gotham exhibit. Contracts for decorating the Indianapolis show building have been awarded to Charles W. Reed of the Read Scenic Studios of Indianapolis. The color scheme will be white and gold and ail material used will be flutted, requiring ’more than 175,000 square feet of cloth. The side walls, girders and ceiling w'lll be completely covered. Special attention will also be paid to lighting this year, McFarland says. The work of placing the decorations, 'booths and electrical fixtures will start Ffb. 8. EASY COMe7 eASY GO Boy Finds SSO Ring on Street, Sells It for 25 Cents, Police Told. \Young son of George Quinn, 1713 Langley Ave., found a SSO diamond ring on the street. He sold it to a neighbor for 25 vents. His father asked police for aid in recovering the ring.

* “Peg” Hamilton “Stopping” a Truck

Railroad Crossing Employe Uses Friendship to Make Autos Stop. —’“DUTOISTS are so reckless at crossings that at least one watchman has resorted to cultivating the friendship of those passing his crossing most regularly to reduce the hazard of being run down by trains. J. M. “Peg" Hamilton, 66 —he'll be pensioned one of these days—Big Four watchman at West and Georgia Sts., says it’s “no use to throw your llag at them,” or make vicious faces when they ignore signals and dash out In front of trains. “It you make ’em mad, they’ll just try to run you off the street the next time they pass," Peg says. Tames Woman Driver “There used to be a woman who took her husband to and from work who passed here four times a day.’’ Peg said. “She always ran past the signal. One day she pretty near knocked me off the street, but I laughed and hollered, 'Got a lot in Crown Hill?' That made her laugh too, and now she always smiles and slows up to say ‘hello.” If I flag her down, she stops now.” “Peg” ran a hack forty-throe years in Indianapolis. He vised to be James Whitcomb Riley’s favorite hack driver. He lost his leg years ago, and broke his hand cranking a flivver in 1917. It healed crookedly, so he hasn’t much use for other kinds of transportation than a horse. “You can’t make them run out in front of a train,” Peg says. Starts Campaign Peg started a "one-man-campaign” today for an ordinance to require motorists to stop for crossing watchmen’s signals as they are required to for traffic policemen’s signs. He wrote Chief of Police Claude F. Johnson and the board of safety suggesting such an ordinance. Motorists, here’s a tip from Peg. When you run past a crossing, the watchman la required to take your number. It is filed, and If you get killed or hurt at a crossing the facts In the watchman's report will be introduced against you at possible damage suit trials to show you were, at least at that time, reckless and careless.

Stucfent to Work Way to Europe

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Charles S. Kendall crrjraiTH intentions of working |\X/| his way to the British I *’ 1 Isles, Charles S. Kendall, 20, a junior at De Pauw University, will leave for New York next week. Kendall will entrain for the coast with Dr. D.„ R. Eckhardt dean of freshmen at De Pauw, who will go immediately to Europe and will Join the dean in Glasgow, Scotland. Kendall intends to get work on a steamer bound for Europe, and after meeting Eckhardt in Scotland will tour the British Isles and perhaps France. Kendall’s home is in New Albany, Ind., and Ije is student pastor of the Maywood/ Methodist Church. At the university he Is a member of Cosmopolitan Club, Glee Club, American Club the orchestra, the debating team, the Oxford Club and the Commerce Club. ROBINSON AT ANGOLA Bv United Prett ANGO DA, Ind., Jan. 15.—Senator Arthur Robinson is due here today from Washington to make two addresses. Robinson will speak before the Rotary Club and at & men's meeting at the Congregational church. Saturday he will go to Ft. Wayne to confer with political friends and then will go to South Bend to speak at an Anti-Saloon Deague meeting. He expects to confer with Clyde Walb, Republican State, chairman, at Lagrange, before returning to Washington, Sunday night. I

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

LOCAL MEN HONORED I*ut on Committees of Meat Packers Institute. Three Indianapolis representatives of Kingan & Cos., have been appointed on important committees of the Institute of American Meat Packers, according to a list made public at Chicago. They are A. M. McVie. accounting committee; Charles S. Mallory, . traffic committee; W. R. Sinclair, committee on foreign relations and trade.

Indianapolis merchants began to realize on the full buying power of the whole market to which they are entitled and on which their overhead expenses are based. Asa result of this change The Indianapolis Times, Gained 2,005*272 Lines of Local Display Advertising _ ( \ /This was more than DOUBLE the COMBINED increase given the\ pother Indianapolis newspapers in their thirteen issues per week J i * This change in advertising policy proved both wise and profitable to the merchant. Cost per sale —the factor which determines all advertising value —was found to be lower in The Times: Carefully checked results brought further increases in use of Times space as the year progressed, reaching the peak in November and December. j The cost of advertising per unit of sale will continue lower in The Times during 1926. Those merchants who have not yet enjoyed-the profits to be derived from advertising in this newspaper are invited to consult a representative regarding rates and other facts. ' The Indianapolis Times

WOMAN WIELDS GUN TO SCARE PROWLER AWAY Fires at Man on Front Porch —One Wounded When He Foils Hold-up. Mrs. Violet Graves, 3444 E. Twen-ty-Sixth St., was not frightened Thursday night when a Negro prowler came upon the porch of her home, police said today. Instead, Mrs. Graves obtained a gun and fired one shot at the man. He fled. Police found no trace of him. John W. Oliver, 58, of 630 Home PL, nursed a bullet flesh wound on the left leg today, received when he thwarted a hold-up and saved his money late Thursday. Oliver said a young bandit knocked on the door and asked his wife tb call him to the door. When he arrived, Oliver told police he faced a revolver and heard a demand for his money. Instead, Oliver said he,, knocked the gun toward the ground and the bandit pulled, the trigger and fled. Cecil Carter, 2139 N. Olney St., reported rabbit skins valued at $26 stolen. William Elliott, driver for the Gregg & Cos. cleaners, reported two rugs valued at $125 stolen from his truck In the rear of 134 N. Pennsylvania St. H. H. Bushong, 3357 N. Meridian St., reported theft of his Shrine diamond set ring, worth S3OO, from the Indianapolis Athletic-Club. Mrs. J. W. Anderson, Apt. 233, 239 N. Illinois St., walked Into the bathroom of her home and a Negro ran out and escaped. Mrs. Frank Rich-

Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Albert F. Tinder, R. R. L., Box 118, Ford, 478-217 from Senate Ave. and Washington St. Kenneth Owens, Princeton Hotel, Ford, 143-593, from New York and Pennsylvania Sts. ter, 1223 W. Thirty-Second St., de scribed a Negro prowler about her home. MOTORIST DIES AT THE WHEEL Widow and Twin Baby Sons Survive. Charles E. Reynolds, 37, grocer, of 707 w. Thirty-First St., died to-

day shortly after collapsing behind the steering wheel of his automobile at Burton Ave. and TwentySeventh St. , He Is survived by the widow, Lena; twin sons, George and Robert, nine months of age, and his fat her, George Reyonlds. Deputy Coroner William A. Doeppers Investigated. Jesse Martin, 1942 Wilcox St., who was riding with R e y nolds,

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stopped the automobile. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

AHNUAL STATE AGRICULTURAL MEETING ENDS North Carolina Speaker Concludes Conference at Purdue. Bv Timet Bvecial LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 15. "How to grow the products; how to turn them into cash, and how to turn the cash Into an abundant and satisfactory Individual family and community life is the threefold problem of agriculture,” said Dr. Carl C. Taylor of the North Carolina Agricultural College at the closing general session of the agricultural conference at Purdue Thursday. The day’s program marked the close of what visitors on all sides declared was the biggest and most helpful agricultural gathering of Its kind ever held in Indiana. "A farmer carries on the occupation of farming as a means to the end of obtaining for himself and those dependant upon him a decent standard of living,” continued Dr. Taylor. "If he does this, farming, to his mind, is a success; if ho does not, farming to him is a failure, na matter haw well he feeds, clothes and shelters the rest of humanity. The farmers of America must learn to measure their success not In] terms of crops and livestock so much as in business dividends, and above all In terms of human satisfactions,” he said. The home economics section was again an interesting one, with the home and prime topic of discussion. The typical American home, from ♦he standpoint of the married and

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Ice Dips SHE la tot i swimmer to annovuct her Intention of trying to negotiate the English ohunnel is Irene Hesen lus of Wtnthrop, Mass. She is the champion longdistance water nymph jf New England. is getting .eadyj for the hhzaittous effort by taking a dip tvery day In too cold waters.

unmarried woman was given by Mm. Charles Sewell of Ottertmln, and Miss Leila Gaddis of Purdue. “America’s Biggest Business,” the term applied to the American hotne, proved an Interesting address by Mrs. (Clara I. Judson of Chicago. POULTRY TRUST INQUIRY OPENS Assistant Attorney General Tells of Investigation. Bv United Prett WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The justice department now Is conducting an inquiry Into the “poultry trust,” Special Assistant Attorney General Ix>tt revealed today In testimony before the Walsh committee. Incidental to the examination, Lott said: “Well, we’re conducting a little Inquiry Into the poultry trust. I don’t know if those fellows know we are after them yet or not.” Lott gave no details. Chicago had 90,000 population before getting a steam fire engine In *1867.