Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 235

POLICE TO PUT LID ON HOLLYWOOD Chief Calls in Officers After . I Gay ‘Opening’ Is Disclosed. MAY REFUSE PERMITS White Persons and Negroes at ‘Avenue’ Case. Police Chief Claude F. Johnson called into his office this afternoon all captains and lieutenants to find out why Hollywood Case, £32 Indiana Ave., the dazzling spot among the “Avenoo’s” bright lights, was open Saturday night to all—white or Negro. Johnson’s action followed disclosure by The Times that negroes and white people danced together there until light penetrated the windows Sunday morning. It was the “grand winter opening.’’ Something to Happen , “If the captain and lieutenant on duty and the sergeant on that beat can’t give a good excuse why that thing existed something is going to happen,’’ Johnson said. He also said police would again clamp down on the place and refuse dance permits to the proprietor if white persons had been permitted there or dancing had continued after midnight. Johnson, when he assumed office, announced Indiana Ave. resorts would be cleaned up and Mayor Duvall In a pre-inauguration announcement said white persons would be kept out of such places. Johnson said he understood the opening was to be for Negroes only. When The TJimes reporter visited the place he expected to be refused admittance because of Johnson’s But he wasn’t. He received his admittance ticket fight along with the rest of the crowd, that from time to time jammed the stairway -leading to the pafe. * Inside a Bedlam The inside of the place, after midnight, became a bedlam. The music continued to get “hotter.” As the orchestra members perspired, so did the dancers. The number of white persons was fewer than usual Saturday night, according to regular visitors at the place.

Several young Negroes, who have not missed a night at the place for a long time, said that generally the crowd consisted of about an even mixture of white persons and Negroeb. One of them told of teaching the wife of a white man to dance the one-step a few nights ago. Signs of intoxication were evident on all sides. No open drinking was seen by The Times reporter, but several persons found it hard to mount the narrow stairway to the scene of activity “Hot” Dancing

Two Negro women put on some warm stuff hilled as “all that Is late." They eang and crooned some of the “hottest jazz pieces what am,” intermingled with snappy dancing. Hollywood and other Indiana Ave. “black and tan” resorts were ordered to bar white persons by Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff, when two persons were fatally injured and two seriously hurt in an automobile accident at Indiana Ave. and Illinois St., two months ago. It was said that they had just been to the Hollywood. Hollywood opened Saturday night at 9 p, m., and according to announcements distributed was to stay open “until ?” The announcements were entirely correct. As soon as the crowd began to grow the small dance floor in the center of the cabaret became crowded and dancers found it much more convenient to dance between the tables and other spots on the floor. Autos Parked Many automobiles were parked along the “Avenoo” ift front of the Hollywood. After midnight it was practically impossible to obtain a table, and persons lined the front and sides of the soda fountain. No police were seen in or around the case. The same reporter obtained admittance to the cabaret the night following the accident. He was, only allowed to* remain there a short time, however, and was ousted by a policeman. He was told to “come right back as soon as the law went away.” It is said that white persons have been permitted In the case since New Year's eve. YOUTHS NAMED MAJORS Sherwood Blue. 4233 Boulevard Place, a graduate of Technical High School, and Robert Boyland, 2539 Broadway, a Shortridge graduate, have been appointed majors in the Indiana University R. O. T. C. for the second semester. H. C. McGRUDKR. IU3 Hoyt St.. • • • RENTED a room thru • • # A TWO-DAT "lor Rent” Ad. • • * ROOMS are being • * RENTED every daj THRU “Eor Rent” 4 Ad TN The Tlroee,

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WIDOWED MATRON LOSES SCHOOL JOB

When Husband Was Killed in Fall She Worked to Give Son College Education—Now Without Support.

A forlorn little woman, 52, Iter eyes dimmed by a recent flood of tears, is sitting at home today wondering why, after four years of hard, faithful service as matrop at Technical High School, she should be caught in the jam of political machinery and be ousted. ' t She is without a job, without support, with a crippled right wrist received in a fall at the school more than a year ago. Mrs. Julia Wynn, 952 Parker Ave., is bewildered at her fate. She

HUNT FOR CITY OFFICIAL AIDED BY SIOO OFFER Reward Posted for H. Houston Tall, Missing Since Tuesday. Search for H. Houston Tall, 50, of 43 W. Thirtieth St., thief horticulturist and assistant parks superintendent, missing since Tuesday, was spurred today by the posting of a SIOO reward for information solving the Vnystery. Police Sergt. William Paulsel, Tails brother-in-law, who offered the reward , believing that Tall has committed suicide by Jumping in White River near College Ave., again headed a searching party that dragged the- river. Tail’s car was found on the banks. “If he’s in there, he went in of his own accord,” Paulsel ‘said. Tail’s mother died about a year ago, and he is known to have been in ill health. Tall was subpoenaed as a witness at the board 6f safety trial of four policemen charged with taking bribes from bootleggers. The trial was held the day he disappeared. He did not testify. Both sides in the trial denied causing the subpoena to be issued for him. He is said to have usually eaten lunch at the restaurant of Charles Braun, 121 W. Sixteenth St., who made a sworn statement that he bribed the officers with “presents.” The officers were exonerated and reinstated by the board. Warren A. Sampsell, 800 E. SixtyFourth St., told police he saw Tail driving north on either College Ave., or Bellefontainc St., Thursday or Friday morning in his auto, which police found Friday morning. Reported Seeing Him Others have reported seeing Tall since 10:30 a. m. Tuesday, when he left Paulsel’s home, 3423 Kenwood Ave., and apparently disappeared. Police and members of the family believe such reports are cases of mistaken identity.' They believe Tail’s wide acquaintenance would cause his presence in most any Indiana city to become known generally at once. The search for him has been supplemented with radio announcements. 1 - 1

MAD TAXI RIDE STAGEDBY MAN Threatens Driver With Gun After Hospital Escape. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 1. —Escaping from a hospital -where he had been taken for examination after threatening to kill his wife here, H. H. Sackett, an official of the Utilities Manufacturing Association of Kansas City, staged a mad taxi cab drive through city traffic today. Shot through the hand by a policeman, who had taken him to the hospital, Sackett leaped into a taxi, driven by A. E. Shryer. “Drive like hell., or I’ll kill you,” said Sackett, jamming a gun I.ito Shryer’s ribs. Shryer’s young son was in the cab. Fearing the maddened man Would wreak vengeance on the boy, Shryer smashed his way through traffic and drove for hours while police hunted the car. Shryer Anally drove to the Union Station, where police seized Sackett. COURSES TRANSFERRED Social Service Work to Be Taught Hero Second Semester. Courses in social service work for professional workers are being transferred from Bloomington to Indianapolis, and'new .courses for social workers, teachers, and others interested in community welfare will bo offered during the second semester of tjie school conducted by the depart/nent of economics and sociology of Indiana University, beginning Feb. 4, Dr. tl. G. Weatherly, director, has announced. Classes will be conducted at the extension center at 319 N. Pennsylvania St. BANKER IS SENTENCED Bu United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. I.—John A. Bell, bankrupt banker and coal operator, formerly head of defunct Carnegie Trust Company, today was sentenced to six and a half years in the county jail and fined $19,000. Bell was convicted of embezzling $643,743 of the funds of the trust company in Criminal Court here.

knows it isn’t her work as matron at the high school that is responsible for her being fired. And she boasts Carl Larsh, head custodial-, said, “It will be hard to find another woman so capable.” Harsh also was ousted a few hours later. They gave her two hours notice and she walked away at 5 p. m. Friday, seeing the sidewalks and streets through a haze of tears. Once before she was ousted when a building superintendent made way for his elderly uncle and aunt at an Increased salai-y. Her husband lost his life in the school service nine years ago when he fell from a rickety stepladder. Her son Earl, 22, is working and studying to finish his last year in Butler University with honors. Then he can teach and support his mother who has worked to keep him in school. Mrs. Wynn, a Catholic, is one of twenty-three employes ousted'since the new school board took office. She made personal protests to Theodore Vonnegut, president, who received her ‘"coldly,” she said.

Aha! A Clean Getaway Itu United Press OLIET, 111., Feb. I.—Dis- ! j guislng himself as a Lx—l soap bubble, perhaps, Fred Austin, burglar convict, rode out to freedom in an empty soap barcel, which, with others, was being moved from the State PeAitentiary here.

PIONEER, 101, IS 9EAD Clark Millikan. Who Would Have Been 102 in A|fil, Succumbs. Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. Feb. I. Clark Millikan, who would have been 102 years old in April, died today, following a brief illness. Five children survive. 100 NECKTIES TAKEN Burglars Also Steal Derby Hat anil Watch From V. M. C. A. Room. Burglars took 100 neckties, a derby hat and a watch from Harry Beckman’s Y. M. C. A. room while he was away over the week-end, he reported to police. He valued them at SIOO. BOY BURGLARS HELD Tliree Burglarize Home of Mrs. Nellie Nelson—Glass Broken. Three boys who burglarized the home of Mrs. Nellie Nelson, 2217 E. Michigan St., were held today at the detention* home. Mrs. flelson told police they entered by breaking glass in a rear door. The house was ransacked and a strand of beads tfften.

BANDITS LOOT RESORT Obtain Thousands in Wildwest Raid at Cicero, lIL Bu United Press CHICAGO, Feb. I—Five bandits stripped thousands of dollars worth 1 of jewels and other valuables from 100 men and women patrons of a Cicero roadhouse Sunday. They announced their arrival with a shower of bullets and kept up a steady fire during the half hour they spent gathering up everything that might be of value to them. Even the slot machines were emptied. The cash register gave up SI,OOO. POSTAL RECEIPTS JUMP January Shows Increase of $35,003 Over Period in 1925, Says Bryson. Postoffice receipts for January showed an increase of 10.64 per cent over January. 1925, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said today. The total was $363,778.92 as compared to $328,775.28 in 1925, an increase of $35,003.64. Bryson said the increase was partly because there were five Saturdays last month. WORKMAN LOSES ARM Injured Pennsylvania Employe in Hospital After Accident. ' John Rlst, 51, of 2506 N. Gale St., is at St. Vincdnt’s Hospital today, suffering from loss of his left arm as result of an accident at the Pennsylvania Railroad machine shop Saturday. He is a pipe fitter. Officials said Rist's arm was caught in the driving rod of a locomotive. Dr. J. H. Oliver said it was necessary to amputate Rist's arm below the shoulder. Railway officials are investigating. PICKPOCKET REPORTED Miss Edna Sentman. 223 E. Seventeenth St., tqday reported a pickpocket grabbed her purse, containing SIOO, as she entered a bus On Monument Circle Sunday night. Police to Salute Superiors | "T"9LL police below the rank At of sergeant will salute w. ,SI lieutenants, captains, inspectors and the chief in military style, following an order of Police Chief Claude F. Johnson Today. Johnson issued the order at * a conference of captains and l lieutenants at 3 p. m.

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NEW HUNT FOR SLAYER SUGGESTED Martinsville Attorney Offers Information Shaw Gave | to Him. DETECTIVES MAY BE SENT Case Will Never Be Closed, Says Chief Johnson. An announcement which may lead to anew hunt for the murderer of Mrs. Helen Hager Welehel was made today by Attorney S. C. Kivett, Martinsville, who Saturday wrested a verdict of acquittal from a jury in the third trial of John Thomas -Shaw, Indianapolis Negro, who once was sentenced to die for the murder. Kivett said any information “confidential or otherwise,” which he had obtained as Shaw’s attorpey, would be turned over to State’s attorneys, if they wanted it. Will Send Men Police Chief Claude Johnson said detectives would be sent to Martinsville to go over the case with Kivett. if Kivett would write him disclosing the nature of his information. “The people of Indianapolis will always believe Shaw killed Mrs. Whelchel, unless new evidence is turned up proving otherwise,” Johnson said. “I want to put the minds of everyone at rest, or. run down the. real criminal if he has. not been turned free.” “The Whelchel case will never be closed as long as' there is any possible chance of getting new information.” „ The State charged Shaw kidnaped Mrs. Whelchel the night of Nov. 27, 1923, as she alighted from a street oar near her home, 1858 Applegate St. Her body was found on the Big Four railroad tracks near Ben Davis next morning. Remy Skeptical Prosecutor William H. Remy. doubted the veracity of Kivet’a inference that he had any “new Information.” but said he welcomed all information Kivet had. He did not say he would detail an assistant to the case, at this time. Shaw spent Saturday night In the Morgan County jail and left about noon Sunday with friends, who announced their Intentions to get him employment in Cincinnati. Cleveland or Louisville. Immediately following his acquittal, Shaw said he was going to Tullahoma, Tenn. where his father, mother arid eight brothers and sisters live, to study law. Shaw Would Appear Kivett announced Shaw told him thf t at any time he was needed as a witness in a trial of any person accused of the murder, he would appear. willingly. Kivett expressed the belief that the responsible party could be found and punished with the proper cooperation among authorities. Shaw’s destination when he set out from Martinsville was not disclosed, even to Kivett, the attorney said. „ Remy said it would be impossible for the State to bring any further or leeser charges such as being an accessory against Shaw. “It’s just a case where the Jury found him not guilty and let him go.” Remy said. "The State has no hold upon him now, since all the evidence which might have convicted him on a lesser charge was merged in the murder indictment.”

STATE CLOSE* PORTLAND BANK Institution Founded by Morton S. Hawkins Fails. Doors of the Farmers’ State bank of Portland, founded in 19>15, by Morton S. Hawkins, now serving a term in the Federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud, were closed today on order of Thomas D. Barr, State bank commissioner. Barr ascribed poor business as cause for the failure. There are four banks remaining in the city. Depositors will be paid in full (gventuajly, Barr predicted, but stockholders will be compelled to take a loss. It was the first bank failure of the year. Barr and his examiners will go over the situation with the bank’s stockholders tonight. HAIL FLIER AS HERO Latin-Americans Honor Franco, First Spaniard to Span Ocean. Bu United Press PENAMBUCO. Feb. I.—Hailed as a hero for spanning the ocean in his flight from Spain. Commander Ramon Franco was given here today a reception worthy of an ancient conqueror home from victorious battle. Franco swooped out of the skies on the Sabbath as thousands in a veritable storm'of Joy cheered him. His first act was to kiss the soil of the Americas and offer a prayer, as Christopher Columbus, four centuries before him. Wad done when he landed in the new world

Mitchell Prepares for African Big Game Hunt

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If h just pretends that the lions and tigers are his foes In obtaining a unified air service for Uncle Sam, former Col. William Mitchell’s aim ought to be good next spring when he goes on an African hunting expedition. Billy, who was court-martialed and whose resignation from the Army was accepted "pronto” last week, is shown here, getting his “firing eye”.in trim. -

WIFE PROTESTS HER INNOCENCE ■% Mrs. Gipprich Denies Statement of Man, 70, That They Conspired to Kill Husband for Insurance.

“He must be insane. He must be a madman. I’m innocent." This was the answer today of Mrs. Ruth Gipprich. 26, of 3134 N. Illinois St., held at city prison under $5,000 vagrancy bond, to a question of why G. A. “Cap" Clary, 70, merchant policeman, 20 N. Drexel Ave., should confess that he conspired with her

BOOTLEGGER GIVEN TERM ‘Society’ Operator Fined and Sentenced. Walter Markle. 25. Detroit, Mich., pleaded guilty to violation of the liquor law today before Criminal Judge James A- Collins and was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to ninety days on the Indiana State Farm. Markle, apprehended here more than two weeks ago as a "society” bootleggger, made a complete .confession to Prosecutor William l). Remy before he was sentenced. Remy said Markle gave ail the names of persons to whom he sold liquor in Indianapolis. It is understood several local business men are on the list. Remy said charges will be brought against each of them. Markle was known largely as a "canventior, bootlegger” aid many of the persons to whom he sold liquor live outside Os Indianapolis, said Remy. Markle .told th • prosecutor he barely made a good living selling liquor. He said he was engaged in the business six months.

G. HOG’S SHADOW MAY NOT BE SEEN Weather Bureau Predicts Cloudy Tuesday January Temperature and Rainfall Varied but About Normal.

With January, “the Monday of the months” out of the way. Indianapolis today started intq February with cloudy skies overhead, and a prediction by the United States Weather Bureau that the cloudiness will continue through Tuesday, with lower temperature tonight. The mercury is expected to register a

ARMS PARLEY IS POSTPONED League to Wait for Germany and Russia. \ Bu United Press GTENEVA, Feb. I.—The League of Nations has definitely decided to postpone the sitting of the preparatory disarmament commission originally set for Feb. 15. The commission will now convene not later than May 15. A desire to have Germany as a full league member and to await Russia’s possible participation prompted this action. TRAINMEN ASK BOOST Eastern Roads Receive Joint Demand From Unions. Bu United Press NEW YORK. Feb. I.—A Joint demand for an increase In wages of approximately $1 per day *for railway trainmen and conductors was received by eastern railroads today. The demand in the form of a communication from ’ the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen knd Conductors. A reply to the demand is asked by March 2. LEAGUE BILL SIGNED Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. I.—President Coolldge today signed the joint resolution of Congress providing $E 0.000 for the expenses of an American delegation to participate in the I .••ague of Nations preparatory disarmament commission at Geneva.

to kill her husband Leo, 25, last Wednesday night. Clary declared in a signed statement that he attacked the husband because she wanted his insurance money to repay $1,700 loaned her by Clary. Mrs. Gipprich said she first met Clary at her mother's restaurant on Georgia St., about ten years ago. She said she always considered he had a fgtherly interest in her. being so much older fhan she was. She admitted, however, that about five years ago, before her marriage to Gipprich, Clary made love to her violently. She had considered this a “fatherly affection.” She stated she did not know Clary was married at that time. Mrs. Gipprich said the money she borrowed from Clary was strictly a business transaction and that she put up a diamond, an auto and a typewriter as security, although Clary never took possession of any of it except the diamond. Clary, suffering a slightly fractured skull was arrested downtown ard taken to city hospital. Gipprich said he returned home Wednesday night with his Vise from the theater, and went to the basement to fire the furnace when he encountered a man in the coa.l bin. The intruder, he said, swung a gas pipe at his head. Gipprich warded off the blow and struck him twice, felling him, police say. A unsigned typewritten note found in Clary’s pocket, was addressed to “Dearest One,” and pleaded that the receiver “not put it off any longer,” saying the writer could not bear to face “that person” much longer. Clary said the note was from Mrs. Gipprich.

low mark of about 24 during the night. Those who believe in the old legends were gladdened by the cloudy forecast, for Tuesday is Groundhog day. If the sun shines and the woodchuck can see his shadow, he is alleged to sneak back Into his hole for six weeks more of wintry weather. Similarly, if lie does not see his shadow, the winter practically is ended. ThouglV averages of temperature and precipitation for the month were about normal, there was considerable variation, bureau records show. Snowfall was 8.3 inches, or 1.8 inches above the January normal, but precipitation of 2.73 inches was below the normal of 2.81 inches. There were fourteen days on which there was a considerable amount of rainfall. Sunday brought the .month to a conclusion with a rainfall of /38 inches, the fall starting about noon and continuing through the and evening. CARETAKER RESLATED Charged With Setting Fire fe Haznrick Home. Arson was charged in an affidavit filed today against Jack Ecton, 19. Negro. 816 W. Twelfth St., caretaker at the Jesse D. Hamrick farm home on the Michigan Road, northwest of the city, which burned last week. It was the fourth dwelling on the Hamrick property to be destroyed by incenchary fires. Ecton had been held on vagrancy charge. John L. Niblack. deputy Marion County prosecutor, said the grand jury is investigating. DAIRYMEN GATHER Bu United Press CHICAGO. Feb. I.—Dairymen from all over the States of Indiana. Wisconsin and Illinois gathered here today sot the annual meeting of the Milk Producers’ Association. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m...... 34 10 a. m 35 7 a. in 33 II a. 36 I 8 a. m 33 12 (n00n)i.... 36! 9 a. m $4 1 p. m. IS

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$2,500,000 FIRE LOSS AT SOUTH BEND One Fireman Killed, Two Others Hurt as Flames Sweep Quarter of Block —Twenty Stores Burn. SECOND BLAZE AT OIL PLANT t Fortune in Gems Destroyed When Jewelry House Is Razed. Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. I.—South Bend’s business district was paralyzed today by fire which swept an entire quarter of a block with loss of $2,000,000. Five three-story buildings, containing twenty stores, including some of the city’s best, were destroyed. One fireman was killed; two others hurt, one perhaps fatally. While the city’s entire department was battling the downtown blaze, fire broke out in the Standard Oil Company plant on the outskirts of the city. Damage estimated at $500,000 was done there. Aid had to be summoned from Mishawaka and other towns.

The downtown fire was brought under control shortly before noon. Capt. Camille Dezleeschaumer, 65, a veteran of 30 years’ Service, and for twenty years a fire captain, was killed when he touched a live wire Charles Rupp and Albert Kreszewskt, two other firemen were hurt by falling bricks. Rupp may die. Discovered at 3 A. M. The blaze was first discovered in Brandon-Durell store shortly alter 3 n„ m., and before the fire fighting apparatus arrived.had spread so rapidly that it was entirely out of con trol. Thousands of dollars in gems and jewelry were destroyed when the Schuell's jewelry store, one of the largest in the State, burned. Other stores destroyed were Woolworth's Five and Ten Cent Store, Kuehn shoe store. Springs ready to wear store, Burke Optical Company, Newman’s ready to wear store. In addition to these stores about fourteen small shops anl offices were destroyed in the upper stories of the buildings. The firemen were hindered in fighting the blaze at the oil company plant by the danger, of several large storage tanks of gasoline igniting and exploding. Two patrolmen discovered the cjowntown fire. They heard a plate glass window crack from the heat Beforo they could turn in an alarm the entire building was in flames. Chester Moreland, night watchman at the oil plant heard a noise in the furnace room and discovered the fire, which is believed to have been started by an explosion. Instead of turning in the alarm through a telephone switch board in the plant, Moreland ran two squares to a Are alarm box. During the delay the flames gained great headway and firemen were hindered by heat from burning crude oil in their efforts to reach the center of the flames with streams of water. THREE FIREMEN HURT * ' $250,000 Damage Done by Blaze at Warren, Oliio. •Bu United Press WARREN, Ohio. Feb. 1. —Three firemen were seriously injured and eight were overcome by smoke in a fire that swept the Braden block in the heart of Warren's business district today. Damage was estimated at $250,000. MOTHER AND TWO DIE Flames Trap Woman and Children in Boston Tenement. Bu United Press BOSTON, Feb. I.—Trapped In their two-room home by smoke and heat, Mrs. Mary Chase; her son. William, 21, and her daughter, Helen. 19, lost their lives Sunday when Are destroyed a three-story frame tenement in Hyde Park. BLAZE AT DANVILLE, ILL. Origin of SIOO,OOO Fire Is Sought by Officials. BV United Press DANVILLE, 111.. Feb. I.—Officials today were investigating the cause of the Are which destroyed a drygoods store here with SIOO,OOO loss. One fireman was Injured. W.IAZ TRIAL FEB. 15 Bu United Press CHICAGO, Feb. I.—Radio station WJAZ is not a "pirate of the air," Eugene MacDonald, president of the Zenith Radio Station, operator of the station, declared today, when he entered a plea of not guilty to the Federal charge that WJAZ had violated the “radio traffic laws. Trial was set for Feb. 15. MOTORISTS’ LEG INJURED Arthur Bakerman. 120 N. Garfield Ave., was injured about the leg when his machine was struck by a car driven by A. E. Huggard, 849 Sanders St., at New Yofk St. and Sherman Dr. Huggard waa elated. i

Forecast CLOUDY and somewhat colder tonight with lowest temperature about 24; Tuesday partly cloudy.

TWO CENTS

MAYOR URGES SQUARE DEAL Bell Telephone Lunch Club Hears Duvall. The public desires and demands a square deal. Mayor Duvall told the Monday Lunch Club of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company today at the Splnk-Arms. “I believe t<ho utilities should do everything they can to take the public into their confidence.” Duvall said. "The public generally haa no desire to retard the growth of any worth-while enterprise, but desires and demands a aquare deal and, in the Jong run, there is nothing that pays better dividends than the square deal.” DETOUR AT SCOTTSBURG High Water Makes Blocking of Stale RJ. One Necessary. John D. Williams, State highway coT.iiasion director, today announced State Road No. 1, at Marshfield, north of Scottsburg, waa closed because of high waters. It is the principle artery from the Michigan to Kentucky line ajid traffic is being detoured over higher ground. The road will be closed for two days. boo klyam e dsecret ary Former School Director Named Executive of Clark Memorial. Announcement waa made today by the Indiana historical commission of the appointment of William H. Book, former business director of Indianapolis schools, as exexutive secretary of the George Rogers Clark memorial committee. Book will be in charge of the 150th anniversary of the capture of Fort Kackvllle, site of Vincennes, Feb. 24 25, 1929. DRUG STORE ROBBED Haag's drug store, 802 Massachusetts Ave., was ransacked and 1191 taken early today. A former clerk, said to know where the money was hid, was questioned, but denied the theft. ’ARMY” HEAD RETIRES iv United Press NEW YORK. Feb. I.—Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army will give up all her work and go into complete seclusion at the seaside today as a result of a serious relapse following an attack of plurisy and bronchitis.