Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 284

GRANT RAISE 111 BUSINESS PHONE BATE Stale Commission Authorises $350,000 Increase in mdiana Bell Revenue — yLocal Residential Patrons Are Spared. BUSINESS SERVICE UP $1.50 A MONTH |Forty-Four of Sixty-Five ExR change Districts to Pay S Higher Tariff —Valuation I Placed at $35,500,000 as I of April 30, 1925. | Asa result of the $350,000 rate increase order granted the Indiana ■Bell Telephone Company late Mon■day by the public service commisKsion, rentals on Indianapolis fcusiIness phones will be boosted from sl2 Lto $13.50 a month after April 1 and Scaled increases on local measured ■service will ensue. f Local residential patrons were spared an increase, although Indianapolis rural business rates were increased 50 cents monthly. At the same time forty-four of the company’s sixty-five exchange districts in the State will pay higher tariffs. Opposition to the boost appeared unlikely. M The city legal department at present has no step in mind to fight the order, John E. Ruckelshaus, city attorney, said. 6 Per Cent Allowed Granting the company a $35,500,000 valuation on its Indiana property, as of April 30, 1925, the commission agreed to allow the utility a 6 per cent return on its investment fcand a 4% per cent annual rillowance Wtor depreciation. The new order marks the end of more‘than three years jockeying with the commission and United States courts in the company’s effort "to obtain what it regarded as a suitable return on its investment. The company asked for a $45,000,000 valuation and a $628,000 annual revenue increase, but it is understood the present valuation will not be appealed. The commission originally intended allowi'ng the company $400,000 a year in increased revenues and to boost local business rates to sl4 a month. The increase was reduced to $350,000 and the local business phone rate cut to $13.50 when the A. T. and TANARUS., parent of the Indiana Bell, reduced its 4!4 per cent contractural fee to 4 per cent.

Other Cities Higher The following rates will prevail on local measured business service: Individual line, ninety messages a month, $5.50; additional messages, first 110 calls, 5 cents each; next 100 messages, Wz cents each; above 300 messages, 4 cents each. Other large cities destined to pay higher business phone rates are Evansville, South Bend, Mishawaka, Cannelton, Tell City, Hartford City, Huntington, Crawfordsville, New Albany, Jeffersonville, Kokomo, Marlon, Anderson and Muncie. Smaller dties of the Class A group were spared increases, as were Bloomington and Edinburg, of higher classification. In many of the cities re- , ductipns In certain classes of service were ordered and petitioned rates denied. No changes were made on ktoll calls between the different IndiVma cities in the Bell circuit. 1 Artman Writes Order lln the order, written by Commissi^l6l- Samuel R. Artman, it is declared that general rate reductions coul|d have been accomplished were it mV I f° r the high valuation set on the clompany hy Federal Court when a pre| v i° us rate-making valuation set bv tit e commission was appealed. The cV> mmission * n or< 3 er gave t|he company a $32,000,000 valuation! hut Federal Court acknowledged v valuation of $36,663,115.53, and corlrespondingly higher rates. Local* business service through private exchanges, both unlimited afcd measured, and residential intercomi\ lunicatln £ systems will cost morel under the new order. A fee of\sl 22 ' 337 - 65 will be charged the Bell bV the commission, according to Sec\ etar y Howell Ellis. Under the law\he order cannot become effective untrt l th e fee is paid. It is collection the commission has \made this year, Ellis said. More th\ an $150,000 was spent last year by tue commission in appraising the corVpany’s property. SCOUTS Ttij ENTERTAIN Group 18 on KiwaV*s Club Luncheon Program \Vednesday. Boy Scouts from 18 of the Second Presbyterian\lihurch will entertain tthe Kiwanijl Club at the Claypol Wednesday iboon with a demonstration of scouYcraft. Hillis “Howie is the scoutmaster■ F. O. Belzer, city scoVt executive, an honorary member oV Kiwanis, will be in Charge. \ Irwin Bertermann is presiding of.ficer for the day. AssistaVts are L. iFred Sillery, Arthur Web-

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Be Careful and Retain Your Health 'Flu’ Peak Over, but Precaution Needed, Says Dr. Morgan.

Indianapolis passed the “flu” peak last Friday, but have a care. That was the message of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, today. Better health is in store, but it must be earned at a price, he said, and outlined a few precautions. It would take a doctor thirteen years older lhan Father Time and much better preserved to list all “flu” preventives used, according to various doctors, but the whole world apparently ‘s in the grip of the malady. Governor A1 Smith of New York, Gabrielie D’Annunzio, the Italian poet; the Prince of Wales, and King George's sister, Princess Victoria, are victims.

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“You’ve got to get the well-known eight hours or the regular period of sleeping you’re accustomed to,’’ declared Morgan. “Then, take no heed to those who recommend fortifying yourself against the grippe with booze. Overindulgence has the opposite effect, while the grippe germs flourish. “Exercise, brisk walking, physical setting-up drill and games chwe away the germs that produce respiratory diseases. “The food you eat must not be excessive, if the average citizen ate only as much in winter and spring as he does in the hot dog days, he would be only moderately overeating.

“Frequent bathing also is essent al. “Don’t overwork the steam heat these zippy clays; raise the window and let a lot of fresh air into the apartment or house. Apartment dwellers are air murderers in many instances. Their homes are stuffy, dry holes that make the grippe bacteria grin.” KLAN WIZARD DUE IN CITY Evans Seeks Support for Watson Campaign. Hiram Evans, Klan Imperial wizard, was to arrive in Indianapolis today in an endeavor to control support of the local klan for the renomination campaign of Senator James E. Watson and to end the hooded order’s fight against George V. Coffin, Republican county chairman. George S. Elliott, local exalted Cyclops, refused to resign at the request of representatives of Evans and immediately formed a political organization to combat Coffin. Evans was to confer with W. Lee Smith, grand dragon; Charles J. Orbison, national vice president, and other members of his faction of the organization.

TAYLOR CLEWS GIVEN TO JURY Keyes Not to Ask Action at This Time. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, March 30. —District Attorney Keyes went before the grand jury today to report on his resurrected investigation of the William Desmond Taylor murder mystery. Keyes said he had not obtained sufficient new evidence to “warrant any action at this time,” indicating that further investigation would be held in abeyance, perhaps indefinitely. “I will merely lay before them what I learned in the East, which I consider valuable information that should aid 'An an ultimate solution of the murder of Taylor,” Keyes said. Mabel Normand, film actress, informed Keyes’ office she was ready to be quizzed in connection with the murder. Keyes declared, however, he “will not summon Miss Normand at this time.” . i I

BOARD AND ATTORNEY MAY CLASH School Business Director Plans to Ask $120,000 Appropriation for Site Purchase Counsel to Advise Against Move. COURT CONTEMPT, SAY ASSOCIATION LAWYERS Arguments on Motions Asking That Portions of Injunction Petition Be Stricken Out Will Be Heard Wednesday.

Clash between school board members and School Attorney Martin Hugg during the board meeting tonight, today appeared likely, after Business Director Ure M. Frazer said he would recommend that an appropriation of $120,000 be made from the special school fund to purchase the site on Forty-Sixth St., between Central Ave. and AVashlngton Blvd. | It is there that the board hopes to erect the new Shortridge High School, instead of on the Thirty Fourth and Meridian Sts. site, now held. “I shall certainly advise the board against such a move.” Hugg said. “I see no harm in making the appropriation,” Frazer said. “In fact, [ will recommend it.” Attorneys for the Indianapolis Public School Welfare Association, and Hugg. believe that with a restraining order against, the board, on the association's petition for a permanent injunction, it would be advisable to let the entire situation go untouched Association attorneys believe making of such an appropriation would be in contempt of court. Arguments on mdtions of Hugg asking that certain parts of the complaint against the board be st-icken out and that the restraining order be dissolved will be heard by Judge Sidney S. Miller, Superior Court Three at 9:30 a. m„ Wednesday. Association attorneys are asking a permanent injunction be granted restraining the board from selling the Thirty-Fourth St. site and purchasing the other on Forty-Sixth St.

‘TONIC’ PERMIT GRANTEDBY U. S. New Product to Look and Taste Like Beer. Bu Times N necinl WASHINGTON. March 30.-Per-sons contending life would be more endurable with beer containing a “kick” are to be accommodated by the Government and friendly prohibition department.' Permission has been granted An-heuser-Busch, Inc., St, Louis, and the Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, to make a malt “tonic,” containing 3.76 per cent alcohol and 25 per cent malt solids, which looks and tastes like real beer. The “tonic” will be sold by drug stores over a trial period of six months, under direction of Prohibition “Czar” Lincoln C. Andrews. Sv - PLAN PROTESTED HERE Anti-Saloon League Head Declares Proposal “Hasn’t a Chance.” “Hoosiers have about as good a chance to get 3.75 per cent beer as the devil to get into Heaven,” declared Dr. Ewdard S. Shumaker, Anti-Saloon League superintendent today, commenting on the ruling of Lincoln C. Andrews, prohibition "czar,” allowing drug stores to sell a malt “tonic” containing 3.76 per cent alcohol, ■* Shumaker wired Senator James E. Watson and Wayne B. Wheeler, national league counsel, protesting the proposal. The plan is prohibited by Volstead law and the 1917 Indiana statute, Shumaker said. He expressed the belief that Congress will impeach Andrews if he insists on carrying out the proposal. “How Andrews can attempt to nullify the provisions of a statute, surprises me,” he said. COOLIDGE IS SATISFIED But President Believes Congress Should Guard Money. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 30.—President Coolidge is satisfied with the legislative program of Congress, but regards with some trepidation the financial and economic situation re’ative to appropriations, it was said in his behalf today. The White House spokesman pointed out that when Congress passed a revenue bill sharply reducing all taxes, it was obligatory that strict economy should be exercised to keep appropriations withal the budget.^®

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New Recommends Postal Rate Slash to Congress Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 30.—A $1,000,000 reduction in postal rates, designed to stimulate the business of his department, was recommended by Postmaster General New to the special congressional postal rates committee today. Decreasing postcard rates from 2 to 1 cent and providing a penalty fee of 1 cent so-r each ounee of first-class mail without sufficient postage were among New’s suggestions.

FOES SEEK RADIO STA TIC INVENTION

Owner, Molested by Prowlers, to Keep Vigil Until Device Is Patented. Guarding with his life an invention he declares eliminates static from radio, Lewis Schomber, 53, of 2114 Ashland Ave., today resolved to not leave his home again until the device Is patented. The sixth attempt to enter the Schomber home was made Monday night. Jesse Everett, a writer, who lives at the Schomber home, is believed to have wounded a prowler, who he saw walking through an alley gate. Schomber, who had not left the house for six months, was gone about a half hour on an errand. While he was away he believes an attempt was mad<* to steal the “static eliminator” which is in the living room attached to a radio set. “I'm not going away again,” he declared. “I’m a crack shot and have plenty of guns to protect myself and the device.” Scoffs at Vault Idea He scoffed at the idea of placing the device in a vault. “If I’d been home last night there would have been some bodies lying around,” he said. Five times in the last year police have been called after attempts were made to enter the home. Each time an effort has been made to get through the window in the room where the device is kept. The instrument is covered with newspapers. Everett and Schomber’s daughter, Kathryn Cravens, are the only other persons who have seen the invention, he said. Police investigated theories that The .daughter's divorced husband attempted to enter the home to see their son, a small boy, and that burglars were attempting to find valuable diamonds which Schomber’s wife was known to have possessed. He said the diamonds are in a vault. Everett, who returned to the home about 9 p. m., was told someone had been prowling about the premises. He saw a man disappearing between a fence and the garage. He fired one shot. As the man staggered into the alley he was grabljed by two men and rushed away in an auto. Motorpolicemen I-iernauer and Englebright found blood traces near the spot. Saved Publisher's Life Everett, who worked on the device with Schomber, sleeps near it at night. Everett, a traveler, is known as Hal G. Evart. He recently saved the life of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Saturday Evening Post publisher, on a trip in Alaska, when he shot down a polar bear rushing at Curtis. Schomber, a retired railroad man, has worked on the Instrument since the advent of wireless telegraphy. An application for a patent is pending in Washington, D. C. Schomber/is reluctant to discuss his creation, and has refused to sell the idea to corporations. The radio expert believes the outside World learned of his creation from a man, now dead, who a year ago spent an evening listening to his instrument, lie manifested considerable interest in the project.

HOUSE SITS AS A GRAND JURY Impeachment of Federal Judge English Considered. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 36.—For the first time in twelve years the House of Representatives today resolved into a grand jury to scrutinize acts of Federal Judge George W. English of the eastern district of Illilois looking to his impeachment. The body was divided for a bitter fight over the Judiciary Committee’s recommendation that the jurist be tried by the Senate and that English be removed from office for “high misdemeanors.” Unusually heavy demands from members for time to speak forced leaders to postpone until tomorrow a final vote on impeachment. phone f;rms merge Seven Exoha lges in Company Following < .'onimission Order. Seven independent Indiana telephone companies, in as many counties, today became members of a new utility merger, following a public service commission order. The new company, the United Telephone Company, is a Max Hosea enterprise, with a valuation of $126,780. Among the exchanges included in the merger are Lagro-Andrews, serving the towns of Lagro and Mt. Etna, and the Burlington, Kirklin, Matthews and Upland exchanges.

ADMINISTRATOR NAMED Property of A. W. Thomson lasted as $515,000 —No Will Recorded. The Indiana Trust Company was named administrator of the estate of Alexander W, Thomson, 67, nationally known broker, who died March 23, by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash. There was no will recorded. Personal property was listed at $50,000 and real estate at $15,000. $15,000. PLAY WILL” BE GIVEN Sutherland Presbyterian tlmreh Group to Be on Stage. The Sutherland Players of the Sutherland Presbyterian Church. 2801 Bellefontaine St., will present a play, “The Rock,” at School No. 62 Wednesday night at 8. Norman Green has the leading role. A freewill offering wjll be taken up and part of the proceeds will go to the school Parent-Teacher Club. VETS SPONSOR SHOW Post Gives Benefit Move to Raise House Fund. Harold C. McGrow Camp, Spanish War Veterans, will give a benefit show tonight, Wednesday and Thursday night at the Tuxedo theater, New York St. and Garfield Ave., to raise funds for anew homo for the camp. Each performance will include the regular photoplay and several acts of vaudeville. Bon Cornish, Central M. E. Church baritone, will sing tonight and Thursday night. REHEARING IS ASKED Frank B. Jaqua A'leges Error in First Trial. Bu United Press , CHICAGO, March 30.—Counsel for Frank B. Jaqua of Portland, Ind., lawyer, who was convicted, along with several others in Hawkins Mortgage Company alleged expose, several months ago, today filed a petition for rehearing. Jaqua was given three years in Leaven worth and fined SI,OOO. The ,jetition for rehearing alleged error in the first trial. MURDER CASE TO JURY Kemy Demands Death Penalty to Stop “Gun Toting.” At 11 a. m. today the fate of Wilbur Hamilton, 43, Negro, charged with first degree murder of William Bell, 32, Negro, rested with a jury in Criminal Court. A verdict was expected sometime this afternoon. Prosecutor William H. Rerny, demanded the death penalty to show that “gun toters” cannot flourish in Indianapolis. Hamilton is alleged to have shot Bell with a shotgun during an argument last January.

FORD MAY TESTIFY Aulo Maker Miglit Give Senate Ilis Beer Views. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 30. Henry Ford, an ardent dry, is listed as a tentative witness for the Senate beer hearings opening next week. Whether he will actually come here to participate in what both sides deem a vital battle is unknown. Wayne B. Wheeler, AntiSaloon League counsel, jealously guarding the dry’s plans for the hearings went so far today as to admit that Fork's name was on a list of suggested dry witnesses, but would not confide whether ho actually anticipated coming of the automobile king. U. S. OPPOSES PROBATION Thompson Plea Answer by Federal District Attorney. Bu United Press CHICAGO. March 30.—The United States today sought to frustrate the St. Louis millionaire contractor, John W. Thompson’s latest effort to escape the penitentiary sentence imposed upon him as a result of his conviction on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with veterans’ hospital construction. Thompson last week filed an application for probation on the grounds that he was sick in bed and unable to go to the prison and that his conviction had been brought about through the “blunder” of his attorneys. Today Assistant District Attorney John Elliott Byrne filed an answer to Thompson’s petition for probation, asking that the application be dismissed and probation denied. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. in 32 10 a. m 38 7 a. m 34 11 a. m 39 8 a. m 34 12 (noon) .... 40 9 a. in 35 1 p. m ,42

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Evans Woollen Appointment of Frank D. Stalnaker, Indiana National Bank president; Elmer W. Stout, Fletcher American National Bank president, and Evans Woollen, president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, as joint heads of a State-wide drive to complete tho building fund for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children was announced today. HEAR MOTOR LINE PLEA Schmidt Seeks to Start Freight Service to Beech Grove. Public Service Commissioner Clyde H. Jones heard evidence today in tho petition of C. F. Schmidt, owner of the Beech Grove Traction Company, to start a motorized freight line between Beech Grove and Indianapolis. G. 0. P. INNER BATTLE CITED Republicans in Sad Condition, Says Speaker. Hopelessly battling within its own ranks, the Republican party is in a rather sad condition, Raymond F. Murray, candidate for Democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney, said at the Irvington Democratic Club, 5436 E. Washington St., Monday night. “With a Republican senatorial aspirant challenging the present Republican Senator to cite a single constructive legislative measure proposed by him in his long career in the Senate; with the Republican attorney general engaged in a controversy with the superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League and with the Republ-oan mayor of Indianapolis en route South after signing a segregation ordinance, it is no wonder that the poor Republican is at a loss to know where to turn or whom to trust,” Murray summarized.

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TEXAS GALE KILLS TWO, INJURES SCORE, LEVIES $1,000,000 DAMAGE TOLL Four Hundred Oil Derricks Toppled Over by 82-Mile-an-Hour WindResidences Blown Down. POWER SERVICE DEMORALIZED Blizzards Sweep Chicago and Middle West—White Easter Seen. Bu United Press HOUSTON, Tex., March 30.—The 82-mile an hour gale which swept Houston and this section of Texus eariy today killed two persons, injured a score or more, blew down 40U oil derricks, destroyed several small residences and did property damage of over $1,000,000, according to reports from various points in the storm area.

Storm warnings were issued for the Texas coast from Port Arthur to Matagorda. Small craft were Instructed to put out cautiously along tho entire gulf coast. High winds were predicted. This followed a cyclonic display of the early morning, which brought high winds and a terrific downpour

Bureau Predicts Snow Will Visit City Tonight

Even though April is just around the corner, Indianapolis is due to have some wintry snow and lower temperatures tonight and Wednesday, the United States Weather Bureau announced today. The mercury is expected to go as low as 28, four below freezing, tonight, It was said. Just how much snow will fall Is problematical, bureau officials stated. TWO MORE IN CONGRESS RACE Eight Aspirants for Legislature File at S^atehouse. Two new candidates for Congress and eight aspirants for the ttate Legislature entered their names today with Secretary of State Frederick E. Hchortemeler. Prose Horne of Gas City, a Republican, filed as candidate for Congress from the Eleventh district and Henry W. Moore of Terve Haute, Democrat, entered from the Fifth district. Thomas Ferguson, Terre Haute Democrat, who previously had filed for State Senator, withdrew his name. The following candidates for Indiana House of Representatives filed: Lewis Skinner, Perrysvllle, Democrat; Walter R. Colglazler, Salem, Democrat; Frank K. MeElheny, Peru, Democrat; Ross L. Oreenwnlt, Goshen, Republican; Theophilus Williams, New Albany. Republican; H. Curtis Bennett, Dillsboro, Democrat, and James B. Strange, Marion, Democrat. John A. Driscol of Liberty, a Republican, filed for the State Senate. REPORT SHOWS T. H., I. & E. GAIN Operating Income Increases During Year. Operating Income of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company increased approximately $12,000 during 1925, It Is shown in the company’s annual report filed with the public service commission today. Assets of the company for 1925 were $32,187,098, a gain of $484,021. Total operating income for tho year was $1,003,419, derived from a gross income of $1,193,180. At the same time operating expenses were cut to $613,022, a reduction of $177,812. The Indiana Motor Transit Company, the T. H., I. & E.’s principal motor bus subsidiary, operated at a $55,113 deficit during the year. BURBANK IS ‘CRITICAL’ Wizard Plant Scientist Still in Danger, Says Physician. BU United Press SANTA ROSA, Cal., March 30. The condition of Luther Burbank, wizard plant scientist. Is critical, according to word from his bedside today. Stricken by a heart attack brought bn by work, Burbank still Is in danger, according to Dr. Joseph It. Shaw, attending physician. "Mr. Burbank passed a comfortable night, according to the nurse,” Dr. Shaw told the United Press. “I haven’t seen him since 11 p. m. At that time he was having small periods of natural sleep, disturbed by hiccoughs. However, owing to Ills advanced years, I cansider his condition as yet doubtful.” .

Forecast SNOW and colder tonight and W ednesda y j lowcat tonight about 28.

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of rain, demoralizing light and power utilities und leveling barns and houses of outlying settlements and extensively damaging oil field construction. Oil derricks toppled over were In the Gooce Creek and Hull oil fields near here.

It was pointed out that heavy snows have Just visited Kansas and Texas. The temperature stood at 32, or about 18 below normal, at 7 a. m. According to United Press dispatches a blizzard of mid-winter Intensity swept Chicago and other parts in the Mlddlo West today, giving promise of a white Easter. High winds blew tho heavy snowfall In drifts and wire communications in soma sections were crippled. The force of tho heavy snow should he spent before i*. reaches here, officials stated. Denver reported two inches of snow with low temperatures hut clearing skies, while across the continental divide. Salt L&ks City was recovering from tho only snow of the month. SEVEN PERISH IN FIRE, REPORT Farmer, Wife, Five Children Said to Be Victims. Bu United Press BEAUDETTE, Minn., March 30. Seven persons today were burned to death In a farmhouse att the upper end of Lake of tho Woods County, according to reports reaching here today. First reports from the Isolated city of Williams, where the tragedy occurred, said the entire family of a farmer, known either as Nuner or Newman, was burned. The farmer, his wife and five children were burned, according to tho report. DEMONSTRATE CAMP Boy Scouts AJho Get Traffic and FireFighting Training. If you wont to know how to pitch camp, how to roll your blankets, and learn all the fine points of "camplnng out,” stroll over to St. Clair Park sometime today. The Boy Scouts are having a camp demonstration In the park as part of the activities of Indlanupolis Boy Scout Week. Early this morning the annual training course for the firemen’s reserve w;is conducted at fire headquarters, Alubanm and New York Sts. Numbers of scouts were Instructed In traffic duty. Wednesday morning, a downtown parade, followed by a theater party ut th# Circle, is planned.

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