Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1926 — Page 1

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LEAGUE IS DEFIED BY MUSSOLINI Says No International Body' Can Interfere With Italy’s Internal Affairs. STRESEMAN IS ANSWERED Seen as Challenge to German Intention. By Thomas B. Morgan United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Feb. 10. —Premier Mussolini today told the Senate, in a reply to German Foreign Minister Stresemann’s rspeech Tuesday, that Italy never would consent to any international body interfering with her internal affairs. The statement was taken as a direct challenge to the suggested German intention of taking to the League of Nations the question of Mussolini’s "beyond Brenner” speech and the subject of the German minority in South Tyrol. BAVARIAN PLOT BARED Ijondon Hears of Scheme to Overthrow Faclst Control In Tyrol. Bv United Press LONDON, Feb. 10.—A Bavarian nationalist plot to overthrow the local Italian Fascist domination In Southern Tyrol, especially in the Etsch (Adige) region, was reported in Bosen dispatches today to have been discovered by Fascist authorities. The discovery was said to have been made in connection with the Fascist military arrests of fifty Germans possessing arms and munitions at the town of Lavirione. Other arrests are reported impending. Meantime Rome dispatches to the United Press reported patriotic demonstrations in many Italian cities, inspired by the “Beyond Brenner" speech of Premier Mussolini last Saturday which German Foreign Minister Streseman answered yesterday. Meantime. Paris advices pictureas largely approving Mussolini's declarations, especially as France sees in the present agitation an attempt by Germany to fight Austria’s battles as a preliminary to the mtich discussed Austro-Ger-man union. Such a strengthening of Germany is not welcomed in Paris. ” APPLICATIONDECEIVED GENEVA, Feb. 10.—-Germany’s application for membership in the league of Nations has been received by the league secretariat. The application is without reservations or conditions. 26 AMERICANS HELD IN CHINA Claimed as Hostages by Tuominchun Troops. Btt United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.—American Minister Mac Murray reported to the State Department today that Tuominchun exporters at Peking have promised to- investigate the holding as hostages of twenty-six Americans at Sinyang by Tuominchun troops. Tuominchun troops on Feb. 4 occupied Sinyang and claimed I all foreign residents as hostages. ' Sinyang is about six hours’ Journey on the railroad back of Hankow, on the main railway line to Peking. BOULDER FALLS ON INTERURBAN Huge Stone Loosened by Snow—Five Men Injured. Bv United Press EAST LI'TERPOOL, Ohio, Feb. 10. —Loosened by the heavy snow fall, a huge boulder crashed down a Hillside into an interurban car here today, injuring five men seriously and terrorizing fifteen others. The victims were employes of the Steubenville, East Liverpool and Beaver Valley Traction Company.

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AUTO INJURIES FATAL Teaclier Hurt Two Months Ago Dies at Goshen. BV United Press GOSHEN, Ind., Feb. 10.—Ruth Long, 21, is dead here today from injuries sustained Dec. 5. The girl, who was a teacher in the Jamestown school near here, was struck by an automobile as she was leaving the school gro ands.

CLASHES FEARED AS CONSEQUENCE OF TEAM RIVALRY McCordsville Pupils, Forced to Attend at Fortville by Burning Down of Own School, to Be Kept Apart— Town Sees Calamity in Situation. By Clyde G. Byers Times Staff Correspondent FORTVILLE, Ind., Feb. 10.—To preclude the possibility of clashes between Fortville students and seventy-three McCordsvill senior and junior high school pupils who must start class attendance in Fortville’s school building Thursday, plans of school officials provide there shall be no mingling of the enemy groups. ~

Observers declare sparks of basketball rivalry might be fanned to flames of fighting at the least provocation. Rooms Allotted Asa result, four rooms of the Fortville building have been allotted to McOordsville students*, and it has been arranged that the net : teams of the two schools shall not use the gymnasium at any time together. Fortville is twenty miles northeast of Indianapolis, in Vernon Township, Hancock County. McCordsville’s school burned early Sunday morning, necessitating attendance of the students here the rest of this term. Students will be brought the five-mile distance on busses. Rivalry between the schools, which caused a suspension of athletic relations this year, dates back many years, according to L. N. Blue, McCordsville principal, and revolved about the alleged taking of a basketball from McCordsville gymnasium, by the Fortville team. “The basketball was taken up there, all right, but we got it back,” Blue said. “We were called up on the green carpet before the State High School Athletic Association,” 'Tift said, "yaFTesWr fft w played them down here. “The schools are going' to be separate and I don’t expect trouble if we keep them apart.” Teams Separate Coach E. H. Wright of McCordsville said the Fortville team would use the gymnasium after school and his boys would practice after supper. Principal L. N. Luce of Fortville, said he believed that the plans would preclude the possibility of clashes. He admitted high-strung competition existed between the schools, but denied it was a result of acrimonr (Tuna to Page 3) SAYS FORT HAS BAD QUARTERS Legion Starts Drive for Better Conditions. Following a report of a committee of the John H. HoHiday post of the American Legion that soldiers at Ft. Benjamin Harrison are housed in dilapidated, leaky wooden shacks, improperly heated, a drive was under way today to urge Congress to appropriate money for repairs. Aaron F. Head, post commander, said the Legion would pursue the campaign thvough “proper channels” to insure adequate housing for enlisted men and officers. The report declared insufficient housing arrangements had resulted in assignment of commissioned officers to quarters oi noncommissioned officers, who were forced to live in farm houses. ’llie committee was headed by Richard IL Habbe. SHOT VICTIM IMPROVES Condition of Florist, Accidentally Injured, Reported Better at Hospital. * Slight improvement was noted in the condition of George Pahdell, 906 S.* Noble St., florist, in St. Vincent Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in his chest received Monday at his summer cottage in Ravenswood. Police were told revolver Pan dell was carrying was accidentally discharged. beeciTgrove~~aspires I Petitions Circulated to Make Town City of Fifth Class. Petitions are circulating about Beech Grove today in an effort to reincorporate the town into a city of the fifth class, following a mass meeting Tuesday night. A strong faction proposes to abolish the present town board and substitute a mayor, city council and various commissioners. There are 3,500 citizens in Beech Grove, 1,500 of them said to be voters. JUDGE MILLER ILL Judge Sidney S. Miller of Superior Court Three is ill at his home, 1308 N. Alabama St., it was announced today. Maurice Tennant has been named special judge until Judge Miller is able to resume his -duties.

TAKES HAND'IN AIR MUSS 1 House Committee to Quiz Secretary Davis’ Quiz. Bn United v ress WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The House military committee today voted an investigation into the inquiry ordered by Secretary of War Davis into alleged “disloyalty” of air service officers.

They Don’t Like Salute

SHAT historical, militaristic custom, the salute, fails to meet approval of city counciimen. A few days ago. board of safety members ordered police to salute superior officer and all counciimen. But the city lawmakers aren’t pleased. And It’s not the fatigue of returning the salutes that annoys them. “Why, it’s embarrassing; gets

LOCAL HOUSEWIVES DEFY ‘BREAD TRUST ’

Thousands Could ‘Bake Their Own’ if Prices Mount —TooHigh. Thousands of Indianapolis women could bake their own bread if the two billion dollar AVard Food Products Corporation, which Government officials fear will be a "bread trust," attempts to Boost prices,-, local domestic science teachers declare. The Government has filed suit in Baltimore Md., to block incorporation of the concern. The Taggart Baking Company here is controlled by the Continental Baking Company, one of the firms in the merger. Mrs. Ida C. IrfVlgerwisch, general dlr-ictor of domestic science in public schools, estimated 1,000 eighth grade girls are taught to make bread each year. Only about thirty per cent of the girls and thflr mothers bake bread regularly, she said. Mrs. W. J. Marks, 3311 N. New Jersey St.. Home Economics Club director of domestic science, said at least 500 women she had taught, could “bake their own.” First call to the defense was Issued by Mrs. Julian Heath, National Housewives’ League president, who urged members to communicate with Senators and Congressmen to “see the business of housekeplng Is protected.” During the World War the Indianapolis branch of the league did valuable work in breaking up a local sugar trust and keeping the price of bread from soaring too high. Chief aid in the latter was Mrs M. G. Brbrich, 1565 Park Ave., whose loaf of delicious homemade, reasonably priced won a fair price committee decision. What the league did then it, is prepared to do now, should the merger have ill effects, and Mrs. Erbrich has her breadboard ready. freeman^ritesTonight Center Masonic Lodge Will Conduct Service at 8 P. M. Center Lodge, F. and A. M., will conduct Masonic funeral rites for Norris C. Freeman, 34, Vapor Heat and Oil Burner Company president, at 8 o’clock tonight at the home, 6723 N. Meridian St. The Rev. C. O. Hittle will deliver ■ the funeral sermon. Burial will be I at Long Beach, Cal.

Rah!Rah!Punch f lm in the Nose

Yea! Rah! Georre. Knock im on the floor We want a knockout. Knock ’im out the door COLLEGIATE rooting at a boxing match Is the lnsplraJ tlon of George Muiholland, Butler, ’26, recently turned professional paster in the squared circle, or “ring.” George took up the gentle art of assault and battery on a “pro” scale to make money to go Blast to a big school next fall after he graduates from Butler To make himself worth more to promoters, George decided to “pack ’em in” at Tomlinson Hall tonight when he fights Jim Savage in the “headliner" bout. “There ought to be about 160 of the gang there,” George said. “Why I’ve sold fifty tickets myself and they’ve nostporec the fraternity meeting Oil tomorrow night so all

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 1926

Local Women in De Pauw Beauty Contest

you all fupsed up and wonderin' jr-rs 1 URIELS not on tiie pro what to do.” said Boynton J. I | I gram are being giver Moore, president. “It seems a *■- ■ * school children, who plaj little undemocratic to me.” "hooky” to sec the movies. Walter It. Dorsett, president Juvenile court officers art pro tern., said: “raiding” downtown 10-cen! “Wo cm all city officials in movie houses during school one sense or another; why estah- hours. Twenty three boys and lish any system of caste or rank two B lrl ® been rounded up except within the department?” j since Friday. It is only necessary “I'd lots rather have them i ■SJBKHMfIfiNHMNUMHfidRfIiH to watch the 10-cent picture

you all fussed up and wonderin’ what to do,” said Boynton J. Moore, president. "It seems a little undemocratic to me.” Walter R. Dorsett, president pro tem., said: “We am all city officials in one sense or another; why establish any system of caste or rank except within the department?” “I’d lots rather have them call me Ote.” was the reaction of councilman Otis E. Bartholomew.

CITY DUE TO SEE LAST OF SNOWY WAVE But Other Cities Fare Worse —Toll of Nine Lives Taken in East. With other parts of the country immersed in snow. Indianapolis today was due to see the end of a half-he-wted wintry wave, according to the United States Weather Bureau. Os the nearly two inches of snow which fell Tuesday, only six-tenths of an inch was on the ground this morning downtown. In the residential districts more snow remained, but Its wetness caused It to melt fast. Mostly fair weather Is predicted for tonight and Thursday, with higher temperatures on the bill for Thursday. The mercury is expected to stand between 20 and 25 tonight. It registered 19, or about 7 below normal at 7 a. m. Other cities fared worse. The storm took a toll of nine lives in the East. A track walker was killed at New York, as was another in Greenwich, Conn., two died from exposure at Philadelphia, two at Washington and a trolly accident caused by a blinding snow in New Haven, Conn., brought death to a truck driver. One sailor was believed to have lost his life when a fishing schooner was driven ashore off Gloucester, Mass. The body of an unidentified man was found In a Boston snow bank. And In Indianapolis, even the robins were out enjoying the snow. George Shaler, 1301 Kentucky Ave., reported seeing a “red breast” in his front yard. CHANGE LUNCHEONIIATE Traffic Chib to Hear Lectures on Psychology. Luncheon meetings of the Traffic Club will be held at the Severin' on Fridays Instead of Mondays, beginning this week. Herbert L. Smith,* secretary, announced today. Prof. Edgar L. Yeager of Indiana University will deliver a series of lectures on elementary psychology.

the fellows at the house cim go down.” Tommy Smith, also '26. a fraternity brother, and Butler’s cheer leader, will command the collegiate moral support In his usual white and blue sweater. “This’ll be a sweet system of getting George in the B. M. (big money) class,” Tommy observed. Officials of the National Athletic Club, promoting the fistic encounter between the college hero and the Chicago heavy,> announced every seat in Section A had been reserved for Butler students. George played right guard on the Butler Bulldog football squad and is majoring in English and economics subjects. “I’m going right on to school, maybe some big school down East, if I make the money," he said. Asked if be intended to fight for a living when school days end. he said.

Above—Miss lis Booth (left), Miss Eugenia Anderson (right). Below— Miss Mary Ann Tail.

—Photos by Hlllery G. Bailey. SHREE Indianapolis women are among thirty De Pauw University coeds entered in the beauty contest conducted by The Mirage, college yearbook. Pictures of winners will be published in the annu&L Miss Lois Booth, 2727 Ashland Ave.; Eugenia Anderson, 2303 Broadway, and Mary Ann Tall, 8172 N. Capitol Ave., are the Indianapolis girls. Hillary G. Bailey, of the Bhadowart studio. Greaftoastie, will display the photos of the thirty entrants in the window of H. Lieber Company. 24 W. Washington St. Indianapolis Advertising Club members will select the six most beautiful coeds from photographs.

ABANDON HUNT FOR TALL BODY Give Up Dragging White River in Search. Grappling and dragging operations were abandoned in White River today In the search for H. Houston Tall. 60. of 43 W. Thirtieth St., assistant dty park superintendent, missing fifteen days. Dynamiting of holes In the river was completed late Tuesday. The river was being watched constantly from the banks for the body, but the dragging boats were pulled ashore by park board employes, who had worked tirelessly for ten days in searching the river bed. Police Sergt. William Pauleel was one of the observers on the banks. He had little hope the body will be found in the river. Search was started there after the missing official’s automobile was found on the banks. FRANCO REACHES GOAL Spanish Birftman Greeted Wildly by Buenos Aires. Bv United Press BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 10.—Commander Ramon Franco, Spanish birdman, today successfully completed his 6,300-mlle flight from Huelva, Spain, reaching here at 12:20 p. m. He was wildly greeted by the entire city. Franco is the first to make a Spain-Argentine flight. His Journey took him to the Canaries, Cape Verde Islands, Fernando Noronha, Pernambuco and Rio De Janeiro.

“Not unless I get up in the championship class,” revealing a concealed ambition spark in this direction. Muiholland has had two gruelling bouts of a marked professional nature recently. He was beaten by Soldier Buck at Louisville, but turned tables on the soldier at Tomlinson Hall. That waa the start of his professional career. Tonight he hopes to start up the ladder of pugilistic prominence with a clean, decisive victory. Savage, likely, will have about a four-pound weight “edge,” tipping the scales at 189, while George only weighs 185. But George will have "organized rooting,” an unheard of thing in the land of calcium flares and resin squares. Lamba Chi Alpha fraternity, of which Muiholland is a member, will meet Tt\ursday night instead of Wednesday night this mm

Thrills for Truants

SHRILLS not on the program are being given school children, who play “hooky” to see the movies. Juvenile court officers are “raiding” downtown 10-cent movie houses during school hours. Twenty-three boys and two girls have been rounded up since Friday. It is only necessary to watch the 10-cent picture houses, because few truants can stand higher prices, according to Charles Downey, probation officer in charge. The youths were taken to the

POLICE DRAG CANAL AFTER FINDING AUTO

Car Belongs to Farmer of Near Cumberland —Hat Discovered. Police today were dragging the canal south of the Sunset Ave. bridge, following finding of an abandoned Ford coupe near the bridge. The certificate of title showed the machine to belong to Ernest Jl. Kottlowski, 56, farmer, of near Cumberland, Ind. Footprints in the snow led from the car to the middle of the bridge, stopping there. A bullet-pierced hat was found at Twenty-Fifth 9t. in the canal by Patrolman Wennings. The hat was powder marked. Mrs. W. G. Ryan, 5314 Sunset Ave., saw the car about 6:30 a. w. Mrs. Jennie Lester, 603 W. FiftyThird St., said the car was parked on the east side of the bridge, near the south end, about 10 p. m. Tuesday. Mrs. Louise Windhorst, housekeeper for Kottlowski, said he started to Indianapolis about 6 p. m. Tuesday to attend a Red Men’s lodge meeting. He had not returned at noon, though he had planned to be hack Tuesday night. He started for Indianapolis alone. He is a high official In the Red Men’s lodge and is said to have carried large sums of money at times. He was to have been in a law suit today, it was said. Kottlowski has a six-acre farm about two miles east of Cumberland on the National Rd. His wife died two years ago, and he has no children. VOTE JURY DISMISSED Fail to Agree In Trial of Ev&novife Official. Bv United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 10. — When the Circuit Court jury trying Fred Measer, Vanderburgh County courthouse custodian, charged with fraudulently attesting to absent voters’ applications in the city primary here last spring, failed to agree after several hours’ deliberation last night, it was dismissed by Special Judge Tweedy. BEER FOES USE MACHINE GUNS Two Wounded as Chicago Saloon Is Fired On. Bv United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—Machine guns were introduced as weapons In Chicago’s beer war last night. Two members of a powerful beer "syndicate” were wounded. Martin Costello, a Bouth Side saloon keeper, had been buying hla “real beer” from one syndicate one month and from another the next month. The McErlane-Saltis crowd wanted all of Costello’s business. That was the background, police said today, for the battle. John Foley, a labor leader, and William Wilson, a pugilist, both beer runners and representatives of the syndicate opposing the McErlaneSaltis crowd, were in Costello’s saloon talking to the bUrtender. when from a rear window came a spray of bullets. Foley and Wilson fell with several bullet wounds each. Wilson’s wounds may prove fstaL

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WAR SHRINE WORK TO BE BEGUN SOON Contract Awarded for Foundation of Main Memorial Plaza Building at Cost of $289,000. After more than five years, trustees of the Indiana World War Memorial awarded the contract today for the erection of the foundation of the main building of the Plaza project in the block bounded by Vermont, Michigan, Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts. E. C. Strathmann Company was awarded the contract on its low bid of $289,000. Under the contract the firm will start excavation for the building’s foundation and basement archives within ten days.

school offices and held until called for by their parents. “Raids” were started when Miss Geneva Dickey, school attendance officer, visited one movie and found eight boys and one girl. William A. Hacker, school attendance director, after a conference with Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lnhr, said managers of motion picture houses would be warned they wIU be prosecuted for contributing to delinquency If they do not bar school children during school hours.

CONDITIONS AT JULIETTA ARE GIVENJNTRIAL Remy Makes Opening Statement in Case Against Contractor. A vivid picture of conditions at Julietta, county hospital for the insane, resulting from a lie gad faulty construction by George A Weaver & Irion, contractors., was given today by Prosecutor William H. Remy in his opening statement to a jury In Criminal Court where Windsor J. Weaver, the son, is on trial, charged with presenting a false claim to the county. The son was granted a separate triaL The State and defense agreed upon a jury at 11:30 a. m. Court adjourned until 2 p. m., when Remy ( rrade the opening statement. Charles S. Wiltsie is special judge. The Weavers are alleged to have unlawfully claimed 117,673.75 from the county after two new wings were added to Julietta. This is 15 per cent of the contract price, which the county withheld until the buildings were finally accepted. Remy declared that Weaver swore to an- affidavit that the units were constructed according to specifications. The prosecutor Informed the jury that he would show the walls were out of plumb, roofs leaked, holes were in the walls, ceilings and floors sagged and that “the buildings shook when an extra amount of weight were put on them.” One of the first witnesses was Harry Dunn, county auditor, who identified contracts. GAME WARDEN WOUNDS MAN Officer Also Shot in Encounter With Hunters. Roy Vehr, Rushville, Is In a Greencastle hospital with a, revolver wound in his leg; as a result of a gun battle with three State game wardens at noon somewhere in Putnam County, according to a telephonic report to southern division Game Warden Chief Fred M. Ehlers, at the Statehouse this afternoon. Berkley Wataon, Greencastle, and A. R. Hill and John T. Pyle, game wardens, came upon two men hunting, Ehler said he was informed. One shot at Pyle. His clothes were torn. Hill then shot Vehr, wounding him in the leg. He was taken to a Greencastle Hospital. FISH BOAT WRECKED One Man Reported I>rowned—Nineteen Reach Safety. Lu United Press GLOUCESTER, Mass.. Feb. J.O. — At least one man is believed to have drowned and several others escaped a similar fate today when a seventymile gale drove the fishing schooner Ralph Brown ashore on Long Beach. Os the twenty-one members of the crew, nineteen reached safety.

Forecast MOSTLY fair tonight and Thursday; lowest temperature tonight, 20 to 25; warmer Thursday.

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Its bid was the lowest of ton received. The firm was low In previous bidding competition, but the contract was not awarded when the State board of accounts objected to specifications, charging they restricted reinforcement steel to that manufactured by a firm in which Walker & Weeks, architects for t.he building, were Interested. The specifications were changed following an investigation. Secredary Elected Frank W. Henley, State American Legion adjutant, was elected secretary of the memorial commission, at $2,600 a year to succeed Paul Comstock of Richmond. The main building foundation and archives must be completed Aug. 31. 1926. The work extends twenty feet under ground. The building will be 184 feet square. The foundation, however, will extend under a 78 by 70-foot south approach and a 65 by 112-foot north approach. Excavation work likely will start by the middle of next week, E. C. Strathmann, president of the construction firm, said. “Down to Buntness" Marcus 8. Bonn tag, Evansville, president of the Memorial Commission, provided for by a legislative act five years ago last November and appointed by Governor James P. Goodrich, said: “We are at last getting down to business." Sonntag explained the commission would advertise for bids on the super-structure, probably immediately after completion of the foundation and basement. Btrathmann’s contract provides a penalty of $l5O a day, for every day the building is not completed after Aug. 31. Near Churches Plans for the building do not proven the First Baptist and Second Presbyterian Chuiv.hes remaining In their present locations, it'was tald. The south approach, however, will be almost flush against them if the county does not buy and remove them. The Bobbs-Merrill Bldg, and others on the site will be wrecked by the ; middle of July, Sonntag said. Commissioners attending the meetI ing were Sonntag, Vice President Howard .O’Neall, CrawfordsvlUe: Thomas B. Coulter, Vincennes; Sam uel D. Royse, Terre Haute; James P. Goodrich, Winchester; William P. Gleason, Gary; Robert R. Batton. ; Marion; Luie H. Moore, Ft. Wayne: I Miss Perulelta Boyd, Deputy; 1 Dr. O. R. Bird. Breensburg, and William L. Elder, Indianapolis. FOUR CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE Mother Saves Two In Jump From Roof. Bv United Press COATES VILLE. Pa.. FW>. M.— Four children were burned to death when fire caused h(y an exploding oil lamp destroyed the home of Ben jamln Etters, a farmer, at Goose town, three miles south of her*, today. Two children, William 11, and Ek wood 4. were saved by Mrs. Ettert when she climbed out on a porch roof and jumped to the ground with them in her arms. The others, Francis 8, Benjamin Jr. 8, George 3 and Theodore 2. were burned to death In their beds, the flames preventing all efforts of their father and neighbors to rescue them. CONTINUE SCHOOL QUIZ Chamber Investigates Heating and Ventilating Systems. Inquiry by an education sub committee of the Chamber of Com merce concerning heating and ventilating systems in the Indian apolis public schools will be con ! tinued, it was announced today. The I committee did not make any recom meudation to the school board on the systems, Tuesday night. Clarence ,C. Shipp, manufaoturei of the D-I device to be placed in School 78, was quizzed. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m...... 20 10 a. m...... 2n 7 a. m 19 lit*, jn, 21 * a. m., .< 90 19 (nocr > *#* 21 9 Wiieewa 10 1 IftiwM* 91