Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1926 — Page 13

Second Section

ROBBER MAKES ESCAPE FROM TWO WOMEN

BOY, SENDING HIS FATHER HOLIDAY GREETINGS, HURT Struck by Auto Downtown Downtown —Man Also Severely Injured. One man and a 12-year-old boy are In hospitals in critical condition today and several others are injured, following: a number of week-end accidents. Frank M. Chandler Jr., 12, Seville Apts., Seventeenth and lllilnols Sts., went downtown to send a Christmas telegram to his father, who probably will not bo home during the holidays, ran into the side of an auto at Market and Illinois Sts., and was taken to the city hospital with a fractured skulll and other injuries. Russell C. Stevens, Wesley Hotel, Sixteenth St. and Capitol Ave., the driver, was arrested, but was released when witnesses said he was blameless. Run Over Twice Charles Gipson, 50, of 2808 W. Tenth St., suffered a fractured skull and was rushed to the Methodist Hospital in a critical condition when he was run over by two machines while crossing the street in front of his home. Motorpolice Hague and Petit arrested Andrew Ritzo, 19, of 902 Arnolda St., on assault and battery charges, when they learned Ritzo’s car was the first to strike Gipson. James Barr, Negro, 1455 Shepard St., following behind Ritzo, was unable to stop his car and ran over Gipson. Waiting for a street car at Pershing Ave. and Washington St. Edgar Matheis, 30, and his wife Opal, 23, Connersville, were struck by an auto driven by Forrest Paffiinger, 19, of 22 S. Tuxedo St. The driver was not held. Matheis and his wife were taken to city hospital. Minor Injuries Mrs. T. H. Johnson, 62, of 3131 Washington Blvd., received minor injuries when her machine was struck at Thirty-Fourth St. and Washington Blvd., by an auto in which A. L. Block, president of L. Strauss & Cos., was riding with his chauffeur. Witnesses said the chaufteur had to swerve his car to avoid striking a machine which entered Washington Blvd. from Thirty-Fourth St. Mrs. Johnson was taken home by Block. Monroe King, 72, of 118 W. Twen-ty-Fifth St., received severe cuts and bruises about the body when he was struck by a machine at Meridian and Twenty-Fifth Sts., driven by Daffo Shideler. 4221 Sunset Ave. POLICE SEEK TWO Sick Woman Wanders From Home During Night. Police are searching the city for Mrs. Herman Jolitz, 36, who lives one mile south of Troy Ave. on Harding St., who left her home about midnight Saturday. Relatives say she has been 111 for some time. Miss Dorothy B. Smith, 15, js missing from her home at Brazil, Ind., and might be In Indianapolis, police were told. Births Boys Russell and Hope Cook. St. Vincent HosPi ‘&arles and Buryi Croker, St. Vincent Thomas and Merle Led with. St. Vincent Ho Prands Bnd Marjorie Feeney. St. VlnCe^e^chel lt and Stella Darts. 1775 Morgan. Clarence and Ma Dlnlnger. 1233 Lee. Howard and Jennette Moore, Christian Hospital. _ _ „ John and Rosa Foreman. 021 Coffey. John and Mabel Bmlth. 425 8. Holmes. ATrthur and Dorothy Godwin, 1011 and Mary Hoff,, 1863 Jones. WUson and Lenore Harper. 2503 N. Alabama. Eugene and Imogene Maurice. Methodist Hospital. Richard and Goldeen Papengruth. Methodist Hospital. Clyde and Hazel Smith, city hospital. Tarry and Annabelle Overstreet, city hospital. waiter and Cleo Lucas, city hospital. Porter and Mildred Pate, Christian Hospital. Girls Arthur and Sarah Buckwitz. St. Vincent Hospital. Fred and Katheryn Mullen, St. Vincent Hospital. Fred and Margaret Roesinger, St. Vincent Hospital. _ _ Thomas and Mary Dever St. Vincent 8 Hoenltal. Charles and Callle Williams, 824 S. Belmont. George nad Edna Campbell, 749 W. Thirty-Second. Frank and Emma Christian, 1320 Bhepard John and Mildred Payton, St. Vincent's Hospital. Fied and Edna Lutz, St. Vincent’s Hospital. Grover and Ethel Granger, 87407 E. Vermont. Arthur and Mary Teepe, 2310 Wheeler. Tom and Margaret Altopp, 300 N. Tremcmt. Edmund and Lucile House, 6316 Park. David and Virginia Epley, 2310 Kooose. ▼•it. Clare and Cora Miller. 1237 S. Belmont. Orville and Leona Smith, 1427 E Michigan. Dallas and Clarabelle Chappell. 1208 H E. Michigan. William and Julia Driscol, 65 N. Addison. John and Luaie Newkirk. 2225 Northwestern. w Farrell and Gladys Havery, Methodist Andrew and Bessie Leltz. Methodist Hosnital. ■John and Gladys Reed, city hospital. John and Bessie Haynes, city hospital. Oil is and Pearl Craig, city hospital. John and May Samuel, city hospital. Edgar and Anna Strong rdtv hospital. Fred and eJanette Johnson, city hospital Iva and Mary Batts, city hospital. Moses and Berth Saunders, city hospital. Deaths William D. Meskill. 80. St. Vincent Hospital. acute dill tat ion of heart. Thomas Delhi. 38, Long Hospital, purulent pleurisy. Melvin Lane. 58. Christian Hospital cerebral embolism. John Moses O'Haver. 63, Long Hospital arteriosclerosis. Edward Langford. 41, 413 W. Mtohigan lobar pneumonia. Jesse L Steele, 39. 723 E. Pratt general peritonitis. Edward D. Bogardus 74. 2247 N. Talbott, chronic myocarditis. Sophia Rust. 83. 1308 Leonard, acute dilatation of heart. Cornelius Adktnson. 85. Methodist Hospital. arteriosclerosis. McCagie B. Wheeler, 80. 1621 Delosr. chronic nephritis. Clara L. Miller, 66. 3647 E. Michigan, cerebral hemorrhage. Hattie Rogers. .>O. Central Indiana Hospital. rhronic myocarditis. Henry M. Talbott. 72. 1386 N. Delaware. arteriosclerosis. Ernestine Leora Wiese. 0 months. 1958 Holloway, chronic hydrocephalus Roxie Richardson. 62. 220 W. Fifteenth, neurasthenia. Wiliam P. Duffy. 69. 1416 Kennlngton, O. xna *****

RELATES SEA TRAGEDY Old Fisherman’s Compnnlon Went Mad While Boat Drifted. Bv Cnited Press AVALON, CATALINA ISLAND, Ca., Dec. 20. —Eli T. Kellyl in a hospital weak mentally incoherent, told a strange tale today of ten days drifting at open sea in a small, dismantled boat, the death of his companion who went mad and his own rescue. Kelly, a fisherman, was found clinging to the rocks at the west end of the island, in the last stages of exhaustion. His body was cut and bruised. Later the body of James McKinley, 63, who died in the little boat, was found. Eleven days ago, according to Kelly, the two set out on a fishing expedition from Redondo, Cal. In a freak storm, the engine was disabled and a sail was carried away. There were but twenty-four hours rations. poor looses KILLED BY AUTOS Man and Two Daughters Die in Crossing Crash. Four persons were dead in the State today as result of automobile accidents ove rthe week end. Charles Clark, 45, and his two (laughters, were killed when their auto was struck by a train at Lapaz, near Plymouth late Saturday. A third daughter, Thelma, 20, was seriously Injured. Charles A. Black, 65, died at Crawfordsvllle Sunday, after he was struck by an automobile, driven by Dr. L. W. Beach. Mrs. Black was also hurt. <

Santa Clans Has Two Bosses

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Kris Kringle himself By Gene Cohn NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—1n these days of high-powered efficiency, not even “Santa Claus escapes the time clock. He has a boss and takes his orders. He goes forth on schedule time, makes reports at the end of the year of the number of dolls, wagons and what-nots; has modern distributing methods and elaborate promotion campaigns. He is no longer a myth. Santa Claus has become an industry and you can find him in Dun and Bradstreet. The theoretical bosses of Santa are A. S. Schoenhut of Philadelphia, and Harrie White of North Bennington, Vt., the heads of the Toy Manufacturers’ Association. And, in at least one case, the right to be boss of the dream saint of childhood is earned by several centuries of service. For at least two centuries the Schoenhuts have been assistants to Santa Claus’ workshop. Ancestors Carved Dolls “When I visited my old home In Germany.” related Shoenhut, “I learned that, as early as 1740, one of my ancestors was carving dolils. They had always been woodworkers and carvers and lived in Nuremberg, the traditional home of toys. I have reason to believe that even beh.is boss, A. S. Schoenhut. fore that date they were modeling crude playthings. “We have always been toymakers, and my children anfi my brother's children- are carying on. It Is in the blood. We are born to toys and we see them as something more than playthings—as sort of a symbol of childhood dreams. “As an Instance, during the war the order came that no steel could be used in making toys. It was needed for the war. Can you see what that meant? “Millions of little things that would have made the children forget the tragedy and grief that hung over their homes oould not be made. Well. I went and made a plea that the children get their share—ls only a little. There was enough unhappiness on earth. But w* bail to go on aubetitute* for ataei.”

The Indianapolis Times

WORLD MOVEMENT ASKS ELIMINATION OF COMPETITION Unfair Practices of Traders Target of Protective Organization. Asa first step toward the elimination of unfair international Competition virtually all of the Important commercial powers will be asked to approve the recommendations of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property made at its fifth conference held recently at The Hague. Chamber Represented The International Chamber of Commerce, which wns represented at the conference in an advisory capacity, made a series of proposals looking to the regulation of international trade, including the enumeration of a number of acts which should be regarded as unfair, together with a general clause defining unfair competition. Proposal Accepted The conference accepted a proposal to inserf, a general clause In the convention and to Impose an obligation on all countries to prohibit 1. All acts likely to cause confusion between the products of one trader and those of another; and 2. All false allegations in commerce likely to discredit the products of a competitor. Signatory governments will now be called upon to ratify' these and other amendments relating to the protection of patents and trademarks.

Schoenhut’s father learned the trade from his father, who learned it from his father —and so it went. There were six sons and each was taught to carve and take his place at the machines. From the primitive

Freckles and His Friends

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FIREMAN SUSPENDED Said to Have Driven Into Two Parked Automobiles. Alfred Groan, city • reman, was suspended from the department Sunday, by Fire Chief Jesse Hutsell. He ! was at that time, in city prison charged with Intoxication, driving I an auto while intoxicated, operating | a blind tiger and failure to stop after I an accident. Groan is said to have driven his 1 auto into two parked autos at 300 E i Maple Rd., and to have failed to stop after the accident. Hutsell said he would prefer charges before the board of safety, following the trial In municipal court.

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“What Is Santa (’lans going to bring?” That is the question which Martha Jean Stauffer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Stauffer, 801 N. Dearborn St., is pondering. And so are hundreds of other Indianapolis children.

doll of 1740 thero haa grown today a vast plant, employing hundreds and dealing In millions. The fortune began when Schoenhut’s father, carrying on the creative tradition, invented a toy piano that

The Christmas Dream

had definite tone and regulation keys. The present boos of Santa Claus contributed the humpty-dumpty toys. His son Is now learning how to be the boss of Santa Claus ten years hence. And It will bo the same with his son, and his son’s soft, says Sohoenhut. Tested Appeal on Children There always have been enough children in the Schoenhut family to make it a sort of laboratory in which to test the appeal of anew creation. What pleases one baby Is pretty likely to please another. "What did I like best? Well that’s a little hard for an old Santa like me to remember," he continued. “But I think it wns a little old wooden carving that my dad brought with him when he came to America. He was very poor and he went into another business when he came to America, But he couldn't get away. Within a few years he was in a toy place. Tou get as attached to the dam things as children after a while. I think most grown folks do, and if they're honest will admit it. “You know the making of money hasn't mattered a whole lot. I think I could have gone along pretty happily anyway—heaven knows the. rest of the family did They all liked to do something to please youngsters and got a kick out of doing It.” So you see that Santa Claus haa a pretty good boss, after all. , lOWA BANK FAILS Bv Vnitrd Press DES MOINES. lowa, Dec. 20. — The lowa Loan and Trust Company bank, with $500,000 capital, $500,000 surplus and deposits of $7,000,000, failed to open today. Frozen real es tate loans, accumulated over a period of several years, was given as the reason for the failure. RAILROAD CI.ERK DIES J. L. Cronin, 81, of 3901 Spann Ave., clerk In the Pennsylvania railroad office, died at St. Vincent hospital Sunday night after an operation. No funeral arrangements have been made.

—By Blosser

MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN SLAIN Found by Stockings in Home. Bv Vnitrd Press LOS ANGELES. Cal., Dec. 20.—A mother and her two children were found murdered In their home here today under mysterious circumstances. The victims, Mrs. Lorraine Haines, 38, and a son, Robert, 6 .and daughter Louise, 2, had been strangled to death with stockings tied tightly around their necks. M. O. Haines, husband and father, first reported the tragedy to the police. He was detained for questioning. Haines said he found the bodies of his wife and children In heir beds when he returned home early this morning. The rooms were In disorder, with evidences that the mother had fought desperately with the murderers before she was overcome.

Far and Near

Bv United Press BORDEAUX, France.—Privileges of the oonfeeslon have been forbidden in this diocese to women who appear before priests immodestly dressed. Cardinal Andrlen warned Catholic women that their necks and arms muut be covered, young girls must cover their knees completely and girls of 16 or more must wear skirts sufficiently long to prevent accusations of immodesty. KOVNO, Lithuania. General Nmetona, who last week led a successful revolution, has been elected president of Lithuania. President Grinius resigned. TRIESTE, Italy. motorship was afloat here today. She Is the Vulcania, which will go Into the South American passenger service. Princess Maria, youngest daughter of the King, was godmother to the vessel. I-iOXDON.—Ninety British peerages,. and nearly two hundred baronettes may become extinct with the death* of the present holders, according to the 1927 De Brett’s Peerage, which says of that of 780 peerages 300 are without heirs or have only heir presumptive*. During 1926 four new peerages were created and six became extinct. HAVANA—Warren Brothers Construction Company, backed by the National City Bank of New York, has been awarded the contract for most of the 700 mile highway which is to traverse Cuba from end to end. CORK, Ireland—Military and civic guards discovered a dump of explosives and other war munitions concealed in a double wall In mountainous Donoghmore, twelve miles from here. Bayonets, swords, machine gun parts and other metal equipment was found preserved In barrels of oIL PARlS—Premier Poincare’s budget has been adopted with speed that eclipsed all previous records. The budget, showing a paper surplus, passed both houses within thirty-six days of Its Introduction. Fourteen months were required to pass the 1913 budget. PIACENZA. Italy—Six hundred inhabitants of the village of Torrlo were homeless today after fleeing tram a landslip.

Second Section

Sisters Grapple With Negro Leaving Store —Eight Hold-Ups, Many Burglaries Over Week-End. Bravery of two sisters, who attempted to capture a Negro burglar fleeing from their store, featured the week-end crime activities. Eight hold-ups and a number of burglaries and window smashings occurred over the week-end, police reports showed today. The two sisters, Miss Louise and Miss Tillie Tenner, sitting in their home next door to their dry goods store at 961 S. West St., heard a crash when the Negro burglar broke the front door glass.

Thinking an auto had crashed into the store front they ran from the house to the store. Sees Burglar Miss Tillie Tenner, slightly ahead of her sister, had reached the front of the store when the Negro, evident ly hearing them, dived headlong out of the broken window. She seized the man by the shoulder and called for help. The intrruder was too strong, however, and broke away and fled. Charles Zellers, proprietor of a restaur int at 1002 S. West St., chased the man a block, but he escaped. ”1 wasn’t scared at the time. There wasn’t time to get scared,” said the sister who grabbed hold of the burglar.” But afterwards I realized what a chance I took of being shot or struck and I was frightened." The burglar obtained no loot from the store. A reported hold-up in which Isidore IGein, 45, proprietor of a dry goods store at 639 E. Sixteenth St., received head injuries, was investigated today by Lieut. O. D. Thomas. Klein told police a man entered she store and asked to buy a pair of trousers. When Klein turned around the man slugged him, he said Klein said they fought for some time. He was taken to city hoepitaL Jjeslie Sanders, 13, of 1414 Bellefontaine St., and Estel Wlepke, 653 E. Sixteenth St., chased the alleged bandit down an alley. Burglars Run Wild Window smashing burglars and others who used less noisy methods of entrance, ran wild over the weekend. according to police records. Imogene Collins, 22, and Esther Marble, 19, both of 1814 College A w e., were badly frightened when they awoke Sunday morning and found a man sitting on the side of their bed. They screamed and the man ran. Police could find no trace of him, although the girls gave a good description. A large plate glass window was smashed at the Bennett-Swaln Company clothing store, Delaware St. and Massachusetts Ave., but the burglar was scured away before he got Inside. Police could find nothing missing. Buglars stole $96 and a pay phone at the drug stroe of Herman laesek, 2028 N. Rural St. Police found that Intruders entered the basement of the Dandy Cleaners, 338 Massachusetts Ave., and then drilled holes In the floor until they got In the shop. They stole considerable clothing. Tires Stolen J. H. Eaver drove Into the alley In the rear of his home, 1453 N. New Jersey St., and saw two young men in a coupe drive away. He found j that four tires and rims had been taken from another of his autos In the garage. John Reed, employed at the Speedway Bar, 254 Indiana Ave., opened up today and found the cash register had been opened and $7.50 taken. Other places entered and reported to police were: Thomas Rider, 919 W. TwentySixth St., grocery, merchandise, $136.80; William Elyerds, 139 N. Delaware St., ring and money, $63.50filling station, Kentucky Ave. and Harding Sts., money and check, $5filling station, Troy Ave. and Meridian St., merchandise $2; George Adams, 1217 Cottage Ave., coat, S2O- - George, Kirkwood hotel clothing from automobile, SIOO. Several other places were entered and ransacked, but according to proprietors nothing was taken. Seek Youths Search for two youths in a light green Chevrolet coupe, who early Sunday morning held up three pedestrians, returning to their homes on the north side, was still being conducted today by police and detectives. The men first accosted Charles H. Douglas, 2442 N. Alabama St., walking between Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts., on Eleventh St., asked him for a match and then held him up, taking $lB. Driving farther north, they stopped John W. Ilane, 3321 Carrollton Ave., at ThirtyFourth St. and Carrollton Ave., and took $4.50 and a gold pencil. Del C. Underwood, 713 N. Delaware St., the third vicitm, walking in the 1100 block on Fairfield Ave., was relieved of his watch nnd $29. Other hold-ups reported over the week-end were: Standard Oil station, Belmont and Michigan Sts., where a lone bandit secured S6O from L. M. Smith, attendant; Plaza. Oil Company station, 2416 E. New York St., Charles Bailey, 2430 Brookside Ave,, attendant, S6O taken by two men; Thomas F. Wilson, Rushville, Ind., $43; Harold HemmlgAm, 1721 S. Randolph St., truck driver for H. W. Rieman & Sons, florists, sl6 taken after bandit made him drive from 1141 Olive Bt. to an alley near by. Motor Police Hague and Carter ar rested a man who gave the name ol John Claunch, 28, 2853 Station St., after he was alleged to have bar gained with the attendant of a fill ing station to hold up the place and split the loot. According to Menrj Alike, 1630 N. Rural St., attendant at a Standard Oil station, Sherman Dr. and Twenty-Fifth St., Claunch cafffe in and, after offering Alfke a drink said, “I’ll stick you up and <*•'ll ifliit.“ He returned later with

a gun, which Alike took away from him. Collector Arrested Motorpolicernen Fisher and Clark arrested George W. Hempling, Maywood, a collector for the Liberty Store, on an embezzlement charge, when, he confessed that ho had not been held up, ns he first told the officers, but had bumped himself on the head and taken sl4 of the com pany’s money. B. Blach, proprietor of a chicken dinner place, 701 Arnolda Ave., told police he closed up at 1 a. m. today and started to town in a cab and that three or four men in a roadster tried to force the taxi driver to pull to the curb. Blach, leaped from the .cab at Indiana Ave. and Michigan St. nnd ran Into police substation two and the men drove away. A pickpocket relieved Harley Brick, 5728 Rawles Ave., of his pocketbook containing s6l as he was leaving a restaurant at the city market Saturday. CHARGES AGAINST WOMEN Officer Mistreated Guests in Hotel, Report. The resignation of Motorcycle Officer Patrick McMahon will be given the board c>f safety Tuesday by Chief Claude F. Johnson. At the same time charges of being absent without leave will be preferred against Patrolman George Byram, member of the Police and Firemen’s Band. McMahon’s resignation followed an investigation by Inspector Lester, Jones and Capt. Levis Johnson, of allegede mistreatment of guests at a convention in a downtown hotel Wednesday night. McMahon, wealing civilian clothes, with his badge on his shirt, is said to have entered a room. He is said to have broke; i up several clothes hangers, and with a prominent business man, is said to have placed a fire hose through a transom, attempting to turn on the water. Witnesses said he was in toxicated. Byrom, who Is said to have failed to appear for roll call Sunday, was suspended by Capt. George Stone. CONDLICIOR: SHOT BY NEGMRIOUS While Harry Nutter, 85, street car conductor, 2428 N. New Jersey St., Is near death at city hospital, suffering from three bullet wounds in the back, polloe rushed a probe of the mysterious shooting In a street car at Fourteenth and West Sts. early today. Four Negroes, one a woman, were arrested and a gun confiscated. Police found them at 519 W. Fourteenth St., the "little red house” referred to by Nutter In his incoherent statement. They gave their names as Ulus Carpenter, Russell Children and Mrs. Bessie Conners, all of that address, and Elihu Mitcholll of 523 W. Fourteenth St. PROBE KILLING" OFJtYWED Youth Lodged In Jail at Vincennes. Bv Vnitrd Press VINCENNES, Ind., Deo. 20.—Tom Killion, 19, was held In Jail today pending Investigation by a ooroner’s jury of the fatal shooting Sunday night at Lftwrencevllle, 111., nine miles west of here, of Henry Flacus--42. Killion Is said to have admitted shooting in self-defense. Flscua had recently married Mrs. Mary Scott, a roomer .at the Killion home. They were callmg on the Killions Sunday night when the shooting took place. A twenty-gauga shotgun was used. Flscus left the Killion home to make some purchases In town. He was shot down in jhe yard when he returned. Young Killion and Fin cus were said by neighbors to hat e had trouble before. MAYOR KILLS SELF tlu Vnitrd Press ASHLAND, Ky., Dec. 20.—Dlssnl isfled with the way he was running the city, Mayor Whitt of Ashland shot and killed himself yesterday. Ib had beet prominent in church affaire and wu not In financial duacuity,