Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1926 — Page 13

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$225,000 IN CHRISTMAS BONUSES THIS YEAR

COMMUNITY FUND DISBURSEMENTS EXCEEDRECEIPTS Total of $572,152 Passed Out to Agencies During Year. Disbursements of the Community Fund during the twelve months ending Oct. 31, exceeded cash receipts by $1,426.70, it was showrj in the annual statement audited by George S. Olive, accountant, and approved by directors at a meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club today. The balance of cash and cash Items on Oct. 31 was $6,604.71. The budget committee submitted for discussion its preliminary report which sets up tentative figures relative to the allowance for member organization for 1927. Total cash receipts for 1926 were $650,218.35. Disbursements for the agencies affiliated with the fund were $572,152.96, while total disbursements were $651,645.05. Olive's summary follows: RECEIPTS Payments on 1935 subscriptions * 21.431.20! Payments on 1920 subscriptions 598,005.79 Advanced payments on 1027 srriptions 9,007.00 Collected on suspended pledges 1,010.33 Interest received on bank deposits ♦ 023.07 Borrowed from bank 20,0(^0.00 Total flash receipts *050.218.35 DISBURSEMENTS (To Member Organizations) Alpha Home Association $ 3.185.00 American Settlement Association 7,080.00 Boys Club Association 0,907.78 Boy Scouts of America 18.250.00 Camp Eire Girls 4.300.00 Oatholio Community Center .. . 22.200.00 Catholic Women's Assotsation. 2.600.00 -College Settlement Association (Christampre) 10.404.00 Dispensary Ad Association . . . 0,500.00 Faith Home 900.00 Family Welfare 9odety 148.000.00 Planner House 20.350.01' Florence Crittenton Home .... 8,000.0(1 Girl Scouts. Inc 6,900.0n Hawthorne Social Service House 4.411.00 Indorsers of Photoplays 400.00 Indianapolis Day Nursery Association 8.424.00 Indianapolis Flower Mission. . 7,000.00 Indianapolis Home for Aged Women 6.500.00 , Indianapolis Humane Society.. 2.800.00 ! Indianapolis Orphan Asylum . 2.700.0(1 Indianapolis Travelers Aid . . . 3,985.00 Jewish Federation of Indianapolis 33,220.00 OliKFolks Home 5.750.00 Public Health Nursing Association 28.600.00 Red Cross. Isdianapolis Chapter 30,891.50 Salvation Army 27,600.00 Society of Good Shepherd .... 3,000.00 Social Service Department, Church Federation ........ 5,500.00 Volunteers of America 12,803.00 Wheeler City Mission 5,500.00 Woman’s Improvement Club. . 2.610.00 Y. M. C. A 55.541.68 Y. M. C. A., Colored Branch. . 6,100.00 Y. W. C. A 41,260.00 Y. W. C A., Phyllis Wheatley Branch 12,500.00 $572.1 52.96 Expenses of 1926 campaign..* 11,974.22 Prepaid expenses of 1927 campaign 12,569.35 Council of Social Agencies. . . . 7,588.61 Administration, collection and accounting 18,569.67 Centralized service to agencies 2.802.15 Publicity 4,204.00 Other disbursements 21.783.19 * 21,783.19 Total disbursements twelve months ended October *651,645.05 Excess disbursements over receipts ($1,426.70) Deduct: Balance forwarded Nov. 1, 1925 8,031.41 Balance cash and cash items. Oct. 31. 1926 X 6,604.71 I certify that 1 have audited the books of account of the Indianapolis Community Fund of Indianapolis. Indiana, for the twelve months ended Oct. 31. 1926, and have prepared . the above statement of receipts and disbursements to show the source and application of funds made available during the period under review. (Signed) GEORGE S. OLIVE. C. P. A. Member American Institute of Accountants. TO SHOW NEED OF DELAY IN MERGER ' (Continued From Page 1) Frank Wampler to admission of his testimony, declaring the valuation figures be sought to present were based on information gained from the books of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company. Carl Mote, attorney for the utilities, declared Spooner was an expert witness. Merger opponents declared his testimony was incompetent because it was based on hearsay., The opponents of the merger are expected to ask a three months' continuance to allow time to prepare their case when the utilities finish their presentation of evidence late today or Friday. ‘'They’ll stick the people every chance they have,” was the comment of Charles Mendenhall, representing the city, on' the valuation figures presented Wednesday by the utility experts. Mendenhall declared every effort would be made to prevent the cost of financing from being included in valuation of the two properties. "Now look at that item of over a million ‘spent for maintenance, but which belongs to property’,” he also said. "Why this was charged up to and paid by the consumers and now they have the nerve to try to charge it up to them again. “Then take that $2,100,000 Item ‘cost of financing’. Here they try to make the consumer pay for financing the merger. Let it stay as it is and there won’t be any financing.” Another item labeled "going value” was classed by Mendenhall as another term applied to what was formerly called "good will,” which has been ruled out of appraisal valuations by the courts. Some of the valuation figures presented by the utility experts were based on an inventory made five yearsago, it was brought out when M V. Buriudl, Chicago, and Spooner, Giand Rapids, Mich., submitted valuation statistics, based on an inventory detailed in twenty large volumes entered as an exhibit. "When did you say this inventory was made?” demanded Commlssoiner Jones of witness Spooner. “Jan. 1, 1922,” was Spooners reply. "Hr- Hos." dam an dad Jones, "U

‘GOOD BOY ABE' GIVES $210,000 Borrower of $125 Seventeen Years Ago Pays Off 6,000 Christmas Savings Depositors.

By \fJA Service MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 23. "Mamma, I lent Mose Plough's boy, Abe, $125 today," said Harry Cohn, president of the American Savings Bank, to his wife one evening seventeen years ago. "Abe's a good boy,” said Mrs. Cohn. "Mamma, I feel better. It's going to be a good Christmas for all those poor people after all. Abe Plough put up $235,000, and we’ro going to cash each of those 6,000 Christmas Savings Club checks at 100 cents on the dollar,” said Harry Cohn, president of the closed American Savings Bank, to his wife a fq\v days ago.

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Here’s the new street ear token wliieh will replace street ear tickets here after Jan. 1. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company has purchased a million of the tokens. They are slightly smaller than a dime. j this the latest inventory you can furnish this commission? Why, it’s five years old and lots of changes take place in five years.” Mote claimed no later- inventory was available. Commissioner Clyde H. Jones was most active in questioning the utility group. When the proposed rate schedule was presented, in which Harley Clarke suggestod possible rate reductions to consumers of $315,000 ahnually, if the merger is permitted. Jones looked it over and demanded: "Mr. Clarke, where does the small consumer get off in this new rate? It looks here as if the big users were getting all that $315,000.” Clarke acknowledged that to be a fact. The inventory filed was criticised by attorneys for the protestors and the commissioners because of the absence of detailed prices, malting it impossible to be chocked, /nut was nevertheless accepted over protest of attorneys. Appraisal Figures Appraisal of the combined properties of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company as submitted by valuation experts. Two mechanical systems were used In arriving at these figures, the first being the Handy multiple system (shown in light figures), arid the other the Stone and Webster multiple system (shown in black figures). Original investment to $36,969,000 dollars of 1926 34,385,000 Invested for property originally charged to maintenance but should belong to prop- 1,192,000 erty I 1,138,000 Interest during construe- 226,000 tion, 1919-26 219,000 Preconstruction expenses, 2,303,000 engineering, etc. 2,144,000 Total physical prop- 40,680,000 erty 37,887,000 Working 1,420,000 capital 1,320,000 Cost of 2,100,000 financing 2,000,000 Going 6,600,000 value 6,100,000 Total $50,810,000 valuation 47,307,000 GIRL AWAITS SENTENCE Slayer of Betrayer Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter. By United Pres* NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Sentence of Catherine Dennlno, 16-year-old wife and mother who killed her betrayer, was postponed today until Jan. 5. With a plea of guilty to manbefore him, Judge Barrett agree.fl to postponement so MrdP Dennlno’s friends could obtain more data, concerning her relationship with Luis Fino, whom she shot and killed. Rocco Dennino, her 19-year-old husband, who ordered Catherine from his Chicago hqme when Fino told him of illicit relations with the girl, was in court today, prepared to forgive. Harpy K Thaw was in court. “I have been attracted by the girl’s story,” he said, “and believe she Should be placed oti pi-übiatuu,"

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"Abe’s a good boy,” said Mrs. Cohn. There you have the outline of a genuine Christmas story—the story of how a $125 loan, made seventeen years ago, saved the day for 6,000 persons of moderate means, whose Christmas savings were swept away this fall when the American Savings Bank crashed. Abe Plough, who borrowed the $125, invested cannily. With that money as a basis, he built up the Plough Chemical Company, which does business throughout the world. Today his wealth is estimated at more than $1,500,000. Incidentally, Abe Plough also wooed and won the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Coftn. A few weeks ago Clarence Henochsberg, teller and assistant cashier of the bank, committed suicide. His accounts were $300,000 short. This shortage wiped out the hank’s SIOO,OOO capital and Its $122,000 surplus. And there were 6,000 Christmas savings checks, representing a total of $235,000, waiting to be cashed. To make it worse, these were held almost entirely by poor persons, who had saved nickels and dimes to get funds for Christmas shopping. Harry Cohn, now 80, was helpless. He paced the floor of his bank with tears in his eyes, while hysterical depositors waited outside. A reporter for the Memphis PressScimitar, a Scripps-Howard paper, got in touch with Plough and outlined the situation to him. Plough agreed that the Christmas fund depositors, at all events, must be saved. Plough interested other rich men, to keep it from looking too much like a family affair. They pledged $25,000. Plough contributed- the remaining $210,000. Quarters were opened In the old hank the Christmas fund checks were paid off In full. Plough, by the way, refused to take any credit for himself. On the walls of the bank he had signs erected stating that an Insurance company, a Apartment store "and others” had made the money good. Few knew that Plough had praotlcally done it all. Plough Is just 35, still boyish In appearance. He says that the foundation of all his success was the $125 loan Harry Cohn made him seventeen years ago. "Mamma, we cashed all those Christmas checks fit 100 cents on the dollar. It was wonderful of Abe,” said Harry Cohn to his wife the other evening. "Yes,” she said. "Abe’s a good boy.” ■ t OFFICERS CHARGE THAT DRIVER FLED Man, 72, Injured—Other Accidents Investigated. Police arrested a motorist who is alleged to have failed to stop after an accident and Investigated several other accidents in which four persons were injured Wednesday night. H. A. Allfle, 1141 Mount St., was charged with failure to stop after an accident ‘after his machine was said to have struck and Injured Carl Kohagen, 72, of 1309 S. Meridian St., who was crossing the street at Blackford and New York Sts. Kohagen was taken to the city hospital with a broken right leg. Rose Zycanlt, 731 Ketchum St., received a severe gash on her head when a machine in which she was riding collided at Tenth St. and King Ave., with a mall truck driven by Edgar Allen, R. R. J., Box 373. George Jennings, Negro, 210 W. New York St., was taken to the city hospital after he was struck by a machine at St. Clair and Illinois Sts. The driver was not held. Two others injured were R. J. Spaulding, 68 of 1316 W. TwentyThird St., who stepped- from between two parked cars into the path of a machine driven by R. B. Mi> Ree, 8439 Hoyt Ave.; and Mrs. Emma Bringle 43 of 1018 Southeastern Ave., hit by a Capitol City Coal Company truck driven by Joe Gregory, 306 |?uryear St.

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BANDIT GETS 150 LOOT IN EARLY GROCERYHOLD-OP Woman Beaten by Negro Purse Thief—Three Others Robbed. The usual early morning hold-up was reported at 6:30 a. m. Carl Wilkerson, 804 Arbor Ave., manager of the Standard Grovery, 1201 N. Senate Ave. On Wednesday night two filling stations, one pedestrian and a grocer were held up. One woman was beaten by a Negro purse thief. Wilkerson told Motor Policemen Eller and Cooney that he had Just oponed up when a Negro came In and wanted a sack of flour. He presented a ten-dollar bill to Wilkerson, who went to a coffee bin to get a sack of money hid there over night. Tiie Negro drew a gun and took his own $lO and the sack containing SSO in currency. Three hold-ups were reported to police at two hour Intervals Wednesday night. Ordered Into Room At 6:30 p. m. William Raihle, 21, of 2803tj Cornell Ave., attendant at the Western oil station, Forty-Ninth and Pennsylvania Sts., told police a lone Negro entered the station, ordered him to open the cash reglstefand safe and took S3O. Ralblo said he was ordered Into another room. The bandit Jumped Into a waiting' auto with a companion at the wheel. At 9:50 p. m. Thomas Jacobs, Greenfield, Ind., R. R. 6, told police he was walking along Jefferson Ave.. near Washington St., when a man walking on the opposite side of the stroet crossed over to him.' He drew a gun and said, "Stick ’em up.” While searching his pockets, Jacobs said thd man told him about a wife and baby at home who needed the i money. After taking $4 he got Into an auto, parked down the street. Glenn Hesser, 1844 Sharon Ave., | attendant at the White Rose Station, I Sixteenth St. and Kessler Blvd., told police he closed up and started to walk home. He had turned off Sixteenth St. onto Sharon Ave., when an auto with three men In It turned Into the street. Two men leaped out, he said, one drew a gun and said, “Hand It over.” The other took a sock of money containing S4O. They Jumped back Into the car and drove away, Hesser told Sergt. John Volderauer. After closing up his store, at 1441 Southeastern Ave., Jacob Dltchner drove to his home at 1409 Union St. and put his car In the garage. After turning out the lights, Dltchner said he heard someone say "stick ’em up,” and felt a gun against his side. Another man searched his Dltchner said, and took about $25 In money. Knotted to Street Mrs. H. E. Townsend, 2020 N. Talbott Ave., told police she was walking along Talbott Ave., at Seventeenth St., when a Negro seized her purse. She said she grabbed his arm and coat, and he dragged her about fifty feet and struck her In the face, knocking her to the pavement before she loosened her grip. He ran with the purse and $5. Her face and right eye was injured. John Clark, 1312 S. East St., stood at Missouri and Court Sts., yelling for help late Wednesday night, and soon had a merchant policeman and an emergency squad on the scene. He told Sergt. John Volderauer several Incoherent stories about being held up. Volderauer charged him with intoxication. Detectives Hardy and Jones today arrested Sam Shelby, 24, Negro, of 2229 N. Arsenal Ave., on a vagrancy charge under $5,000 bond. The officers say he answers the de-. soriptlon of the soar-faced Negro, who has committed several recent hold-ups.

SAME MAN BOTH ALIVE AND DEAD Prisoner (Hanged Even Though Execution Didn’t* Come Off, Sheriff Holds. By United Press HAMILTON, Ontario, Dec. 23. Alive and well at Hamilton jail, John Barty, condemned murderer, was declared by Sheriff Regan today to be legally dead, and the question has arisen whether he be hanged or granted anew trial. Barty was to have died on the gallows early today, the province of Ontario demanding his life for that of Mrs. Nancy Cook, slain with hammer blows. But at the last minute arrangements for the execution were canceled when Justice Lennox, sitting in chambers at Toronto, telegraphed an order of three weeks reprieve, to give Barty’s counsel, A. R. Hussqrd, K. C., opportunity to apply for a new trial. Meanwhile It was learned that the minister of Justice at Ottawa, last hope of condemned murderers, had refused Hassard’s plea to stay the Sheriff Regan holds that when a man is sentenced to hang on a cer-' tain day he Is legally dead after that day, whether or not he 1s hanged. Anew trial, he said, was impossible, since the courts could tiui try & dead wae.

Fall and Sinclair Deny Guilt in Oil Plot Case

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Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec 23.—The Teapot Dome criminal indictment charging former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, with conspiracy to defraud the Government, was held valid by Justice Jennings Bpiley here today. The “Christmas gift” for the Government prosecutors, Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, was announced at the opening of court with the defendants present for arraignment and setting of a trial date. Separate motions by Fall and Sinclair to quash the Indictment were denied. Fall and Sinclair pleaded “not guilty” immediately. The Indictment was read to them, after the

16,000 INCREASE IN WAGES VOTED STATEEMPLOYES Gilliom Rules Jackson, Williams Are Officers, Ending Controversy. Annual applications for pay boots were acted upon with some favor by the State budget committee and a total of $6,000 in wage Increases was registered in the committee’s report filed Wednesday with Governor Jackson and Auditor L. S. Bowman. The list included only Statehouse employes. The committee worked on the salary list for State Institutions today. Controversy over increases In the case of Director John Williams of the highway commission and the (Governor’s brother, James Jackson, superintendent of the State School for Feeble Minded, Ft. Wayne, was eliminated so far as the committee Is concerned when Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom ruled that they are officers and not employes of the State. The committee only has to do with employes. Raises registered thus far included the state tax board enginer, $3,000 to $3,600; stenographer in same office, $1,440 to $1,500; clerk In fire mashal’s office, $1,140 to $1,600, and secretary, $1,140 to $1,560; chief factory inspector, Industrial board, $2,000 to $2,250; department of conservation, stenographer and clerk, $1,600 to $1,800; file clerk. $1,380 to $1,600; stenographer and clerk, $1,200 Child's Test This test was written especially for children. While the questions may be easy for adults to answer, many of them will be difficult for children. The correct answers appear on page 20:

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clerk had asked them to stand up, and each firmly announced his plea of innocence. Justice Bailey set Feb. 2 as the date for trial. The Indictment was voted by a District of Columbia grand Jury May 27, 1926, at the tl-ne Fall was indicted with E. L. Doheny on a similar charge In connection with the Elk Hills lease. Fall and Doheny were acquitted last week. A previous conspiracy Indictment, voted June 30, 2194, had been quashed because of unauthorized presence of a Justice department ag< .t In the grand Jury room. This Indictment went to the U. S. Supreme Court before It came up for this final decision on Its validity In District of Columbia Supreme Court today.

to $1,500; bookkeeper and stenographer, SI,BOO to $2,000; assistant clerk In division of fish and game, $1,820 to $1,800; historical bureau secretary, $1.380 to $1,500; eighteen Janitors, $1,020 to $1,080; clerk-stenographer in buildings and gorunds office, $1,200 to $1,500; two women Janitors, S7BO to $840; woman elevator operator, S7BO to $840; secretary In office of superintendent of public instruction, $1,620 to $1,800; assistant director SI,BOO to $2,400; license clerk, SI,BOO to $2,000, and Increases of from S6O to $l2O for six clerks and bookkeepers In the adjutant general’s office. TO ASK $52,000 FOR SUNNYSIDE Improvements at Sanitarium Sought. Board of managers ot the Sunnyside, county tuberculosis sanitarium, at Oaklandon, will ask the Marion County Council for a $52,000 appropriation for Improvements at the Institution, It was said today following luncheon of county officials at the sanitarium Wednesday. The largest request Item will be $40,200 for equipment of the new units and wings, which are now nearly ready for occupancy. Other items are: $5,000 for drilling a deep well and Installing & pump: S7OO for chemical fire equipment, and SI,BOO for installation of water flltorer and softener. Dr. Alfred Henry, president of the hoard of managers, was toastmaster at the luncheon given by Dr. Harold S. Hatch, superintendent. Dr. Henry commended jnembers of the council and commissioners board for their cooperation In aiding the expansion of the sanitarium. County Commissioner Cassius L. Hogle asserted the commissioners are Interested In the sanitarium not only "from the cold-blooded business standpoint of bringing people back to health,” but also from the humanness of the institution. Who Is President of Safety Board? Multifarious activities of President Boynton J. Moore of city council have earned a name for him among those interested in obtaining polic( positions, it was learned when polici civil service examination |answers were graded today. "Boynton J. Moore” led the list of wrong answers to the question, “Who is president of the board of safety.” A number of applicants fancied Mayor Duvall, spelled in several styles, was head of the board, while others promoted John A. George and John W. Friday, board members, to the office. DRIVER RAMBUNCTIOUS Motorist Parked Wrong and Kicked Officer, Police Charge. Motorcycle Police Beeker and Hud- I gins arrested Wilbur Eberdart, 24, of 563 Vinton St., Wednesday night on charges of Improper parking and resisting an officer, after Eberhart is alleged to have kicked Beeker when the officer attempted to tell him he was parked the wrong way. The police sal(\ Eberhart became very abusive and they had to use Mum in |f*t HUM out M Hi* MttutHiMM.

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Indianapolis Firms Will Pass Out Gifts to Employes. FIGURES BY C. OF C. Average $5 for Each Person, Say Officials. Employes in Indianapolis will get approximately $225,000 In Christmas presents and bonuses, the gifts of their employers, this year, according to figures given out today by the Chamber of Commerce. This will average about $5 for each employe of the various companies and banks of the city, chamber officials estimated. While some of tlje firms will give considerably more than $5 to each of their workmen, others are not passing out any bonuses or presents this year. Some companies and institutions giving bonuses are the Meyer-Klser Bank, which distributed SIO,IOOO among 156 employes; Fletcher Saving and Trust Company, which gave $5 to each of the 224 persons it em- | ploys; the Indianapolis Brush and | Broom Company, which will give between S4OO and SSOO to seventy- | five workmen; the American Leather j Products Company, which will distribute between S4OO and SSOO among thirty employes; the Stutz Motor | Car Company, the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company, which will give its employes 6 per cent of their salary as a Christmas present; the Continental National Bank, which will give $lO gold pieces to employes, and the Fletcher American National Bank, which also will give gold pieces. Many other firms in the city are spreading Christmas cheer by giving Christmas presents to their employes. THIRTY INTERNES NAMEDBYBOARD To Begin Service at City Hospital July 1. The city hoard of health through Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary, has announced the appolntmenet of thirty Internes for the city hospital. Four alternates also were* named. The successful applicants were selected from a list of about sixty candidates and all but two were from the Indiana University School of Medicine. Two were from the Medical School of Loulsvville, Ivy. Those appointed here: James Leo Bartle, Bloomington: Eugene ; William. Dale: Alfred R. Robbins. RnoliI ester: Russel A. De Mott. Odon, Paul George lake, 3718 E. Market St.: Norman M. Beatty. 1057 W. Thirtieth St.: Pan) R. Leathers. 5230 Park Ave.' Byron K Rust. 3155 College Ave.: W Gregory Morgan, Louisville. K.v.; Clifton G. Fouls. Adolphus. Kv.; Thomas J. Walsh. Bedford Samuel W. Lttzenberger. Middletown: Waheob S Zariek, 1382. Ewing St.: Roy August Grider 1822 S. Talbott St.: Frank Ramsey Terre Haute: Ferris W, Langston. Windfall: John P. Lordan, Joliet. 11l : Paul E. Williams. Martinsville; Paul R Weeks. Indianapolis. Floyd E. Wolfe, 1421 Castle Ave.: Albert M Dearrnond. Kedkey; Ethelbert R. Wilson. ”830 E Vermont St,: Howard H. Miller 1980 Central Ave.; Truman Bennie Linton; Charles Earl Smith. Evansville: R. W. Baeseman. Louis- | vile. Ky.; Leonard L. Nesbit. Princeton; l I,eater 11. Quinn, Flora; Edgar E. Hunt. Terre Haute: Walter 9. Fisher. La Fontaine. Alternates: Fred A. Kennedy. Valparaiso' Homer L. Warrick, Bloomington: John W. Graves. Corydon; Ernest K. McLean. 129 E. FlfI tieth St. The newly appointed internes will begin service July 1 and will serve one year. THREE KILLED IN BLAST Gaa Explosion Also Wrecks Five Buildings, One nn Apartment. By United Press , BALDWIN, N. Y., Dec. 23.—An explosion, believed due to accumulation of gas from a leaky anain, wrecked four small frame buildings and an apartment here today and killed three persons. Five other persons were hurt. The dead are Mrs. Angelina Acadi, Joseph Acadi, 3, and Salvatore Acadi. The explosion centered in the basement of the Acadi home, which also served as a shoe shop which Acadi ran. As near as could be determined the basement had become filled with gas from’ a leak In the pipes and apparently the gas spread to adjoining i basements.

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MARKET WELL SUPPLIED FOR HOLIDAY TRADE Open Friday Prices on Fowls About Same as at Thanksgiving. The city market today was well* supplied with produce, fruits, vegetables, nuts, candles and other foods to meet the large Christmas trade during the day and Friday. The market house will remain open until 6 p. m. today and until 9 p. m. Friday, being closed all day Saturday. With tho exception of turkeys, ■ which advanced recently, the prices l on fowls were the same as at i Thanksgiving. Turkeys sold at 66 1 to <0 cents a pound. Ducks were I worth 40 cents a pound; geese, 40 > cents, hens, 40 cents, and springers,) 49 to 45 cents a pound, and squabs, , 75 cents each. Trapped rabbits were offered at 60 cents each, while shot rabbits were 50 cents. Best grade l of butter sold for 60 to 66 cents &i pound, and eggs were 60 to 65 cents a dozen. Fruit Prices On the most popular fruit quotations were: Red Emperor grapes, 20: cents, and white Malagas, 30 cents a pound; California oranges, 50 to 75 cents, and Florida oranges, 25 toi 50 cents a dozen; Grimes Golden and, Jonathan apples, 10 cents, and Delicious apples, 16 cents pound or two pounds for 25 cents; pears, 15 cents i a pound; tangerines, 30 to 60 cents I a dozen; banans, 25 to 30 cents a! dozen: pineapples, 45 cents each. Cranberries sold at 16 cents ai pound. Among vegetables were:' Green beans, 25 cents a pound; peas, 30 cents a pound: sweet potatoes, three pounds for 26 cents;* southern cucumbers, 10 to 15 cents, and hot-i house cucumbers, 86 to 40 cents' each; southern tomatoes, 30 cents,: and hothouse tomatoes, 60 cents ai pound; French endive, 60 oents a pound. Cocoanuts were 10 to 20 cents 1 each. Several kinds of nuts were on handi for the holidays. These Included black walnuts, 10 cents, and English walnuts, 60 cents a pound; Brazil nuts, 30 cents a pound; hickory nuts, 10 cents a pound; paper shell pecans, 75 cents a pound. Candies Besides different varieties of boxed candies, many kinds were sold In bulk. Opera stloks were 40 cents a pound; fancy candy canes, all sizes,. 5 cents to $1; golden nougats and| Dorothy kisses, 25 cents a pound, Ot, two pounds for 45 cents. Hampton Court and satin chips were 30 cents, a pound; fairy mixture, wheels, fruit, slices and chocolate creams, 20 oents, a pound, or two pounds for 36 cents. Christmas trees and' decorations, also were sold In large quantities. Vermont spruce trees were 75 centsj to $7 each, depending on size, while smaller trees, for tables, brought 26 to 60 cents. Holly wreaths were, from 20 cents to $1.60 each, and cedar wreaths 16 to 76,cents. COMMITTEE UPON COLISEUMUKELY Naming of Body Authorized 1 by C. of C. Directors. Dick Miller, Chamber of Commerce) president, today had under considera- 1 tion the appointment of a committee) to work with the convention bureau,] city administration and other inter-i ested organizations, to determine the l city’s need for building a proposed) coliseum. Appointment of the com- 1 mittee was authorized at a meeting l of Chamber directors Wednesday. Definite action on the appointment' of an Industrial engineer ‘to ’‘seU’’ Indianapolis to Industries, as proposed by the Chamber’s Indianapolis First' movement, was delayed for the time) being. It is understood this appointment will have a direct bearing on the retention of John B. Reynolds,, general secretary, whose present) contract expires Dec. 31. In lieu of the new administrationpolicy of the Chamber, at outlined in the Indianapolis First campaign, directors have discussed the advisability of maintaining two high-sal-aried men In administratve capactes. The matter probably vll be tßken up at another called session of tho directors Hometime next week. Reynolds denied the rumor that his resignation was impending. CONVICT HELPS FUND Gives Earnings of 267 Days of Prison to Toil for "Little Kiddles." Bu United Press LANSING, Kan., Dec. 23. —Convict 8.188 —A. D. Martin—has given his earnings of 267 days prison toil to a Christmas fund in Kansas City to buy "toys and Christmas goodies for the little kiddies.” The amount earned by Martin is about $lO. He is serving fifteen years in the State prison here.

Orders Haircuts fpr Santas Bu United Press FITCHBURG. Mass., Dec. 23.—Santa Claus must hob hla hair and whiskers before entering Fitchburg chimneys this Christmas. Fire Chief Henry Hyatt has issued a. blanket order agßinst flowing beards and whiskers for local Kris Kringles because of the Are hazard. *