Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1927 — Page 11

JAN. 1, 1927

WE WISH TO EXTEND OUR HEARTIEST GOOD WISHES FORA HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR YOUR TROUBLES WILL BE OVER WHEN YOU LIST YOUR RENTALS WITH THE MR. ERDMANN Manager Rental Dept. MA. 4420

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We wisli all our friends and patrons A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 1927 V GUARANTY CAFETERIA Basement Guaranty Bldg. Meridian at tlie Circle

For 49c you eat all you can. Drain the pitcher and scrape the pan. On Wednesday the chicken’s fried. Couldn’t cat more if you tried. We close on Sunday, the day of rest. Dine with us. We serve Ihe best. Kahn Building Cafeteria Basement Kahn Bldg.

GREETINGS BILLY BROWN Beauty and Barber Shop. 6.'} W. 34th St. Ran. 0707. MANHATTAN RESTAURANT SEASON’S GREETINGS 470 W. WaHhingrton. MAin 7172. MORGAN’S BARBER SHOP Service with a smile. 466 Massachusetts Ave. MA. 6003. ‘NO’ —HARRIS, WINKLER A report that A. R. Harris, deputy prohibition administrator, would be transferred to Chicago and replaced here by Lieut. George Winkler of the Indianapolis police department. Was denied by Harris today. “I have received no word of the proposed change,” he declared. “There has been some rumor of such a transfer, but other than rumor, I have heard nothing from either Washington or Chicago.” Lieutenant Winkler also sold he received no word.

CITY’S,WELCOME.. TO 1027 DAMP (Continued From Page 1) one said a half-pint was going- to he sold to the highest bidder. The traffic became so congested that it was necessary to turn around and drive into the city by another route. At one downtown club, where po lice in charge said the evening was a “fair example" of the old times, guests slept on the floor and in the lounge. When tin effort was made to raise one young fellow he suid: “Shay, I've been at thlsh game long enough to know thash Ush New years." The Monument was sold and resold. At 2:30 a. in. three couples stood on the north side of the Circle and admired its architecture and declared “they should buy and take it home to the old man.” At the Columbia Club more than 1 ,600 persons were served dinner on the second, third and fourth floors. The affair started shortly after 7 1 p. m. and front then on more than 1,000 additional guests drifted in. Dancing began in the main lobby and ballroom at 10 p. m. These places were a riot of color and five orchestras held forth, during the evening. Three dlining rooms and three ballrooms took care of the crowd at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Which was entirely decorated in holiday colprs. In the dining rooms huge bells, hanging from the ceiligs, shot forth hundreds of tojt balloons when the clock struck twelve. Guests and members of the Elks Club and Hoosier Athletic Club enjoyed hour after hour of entertainment. The evening at the Hoosier began at 7:30 p. m. and closed with breakfast at 4 a. m., which marked the club’s forty-eighth anniversary. The biggest party at the Claypool Hotel was the "Cupid party” of the Sahara Grotto, in honor of the prophets who have taken brides In the last year. Thirteen hundred reservations were filled for this en tertainment, and two orchestras played throughout the evening. A New Year’s cabaret review and the admittance of Miss 1927, were high points in the special entertainment at the Grotto party. Four hundred persons attended the Hotel Severin dance and dinner in the Rainbow room- Paper ligts, horns and other New Year’s souvenirs, were distributed. Tomlinson hall was packed with guests at the dance of Irvington post No. 38, of the American Legion, the proceeds of which went to the post relief fund. "Winners of the old time fiddlers contest at the Legion dance were: Joseph Lawson, 819 S. West St., first; Paul Burton, 1437 Kennington St., second, and Frank Hanson, 32£ E. Washington St., third. A fancy dress ball marked the New Year at Ft. Harrison. Three hundred dancers, including fifty guests from Indianapolis, and many from out of town, participated in tho festivities. The Athenaeum was the scene of gay festivities. Three hundred persons danced there. Dinner was served from 9 until 12 p. m. Chimes of the Second Presbyterian Church tolled out the last minute of the old yeat l and then pealed forth the "Creation" hymn at the stroke of 12. A rcglar chimes program followed. At St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the New Year’s eve midnight holy mass was observed under the direction of the Jlcv. Lewis Brown. Young persons of the Irvington M. E. Church were hosts to about 200 persons at a watch party in the church. Members of the Ilillcrest Baptist church were guests of the Friendly Bible class at a watch party at tho church. A New Year’s eve service was held at the Second Moravian Episcopal Church, with the Rev. Vernon W. Couillard in charge. GOTHAM STREET JAM Humanity Blocks Traffic—One Shot —Hootch Kills Six. Hu United Pirns NEW YORK, Jan. I.—Rain fell on the jammed mid Manhattan streets at tho stroke of 12 o’clock, but the city’s uproarious New Year's celebration already was dripping wet. Soaked without from a persistent drizzle and insured against dryness within by plentifully stocked hip flasks, New Yorkers packed the sidewalks along Broadway so solidly at midnight that progress was tedious if not impossible. Night clubs, theaters, restaurants, hotels and cabarets were massed to tho doors. A trail of yellow backs was left by the rialto’s spenders. Probably never before was so much money expended in one night along the famed White Way. A little before 11 o'clock, just as the theaters were opening their doors, the frolickers began to gather. Broadway was deluged. Extra patrolmen and 1,000 additional traffic police had been assigned to the district surrounding St., but they only served to add to the men and women moved by inches through the maelstrom of humanity. No one was going anywhere. Taxicabs attempting to oross Broadway, but were held up for ten or fifteen minutes. Harry Smith, 38, was shot and killed by Patrolman Walter Edgett. The resturant was crowded with guests. When Edgett appeared Smith’s hand strayed to his hip pocket. The patrolman drew his own gun and fired. The bullet pierced Smith’s heart. Other deaths came less spectacularly. To 6 a. m., today six persons had lost their lives from poison liquor. The death toll from alcoholism in New York for the year that passed out at midnight reached 764. The total for 1925 was 682.

CHURCH PARTY TONIGHT “Open House” was held this afternoon and evening for the members and friends of the First Evangelical Church, at the parsonage, 233 N. East St., by the pastor. Rev. Edmond Kerlin and Mrs. Kerlin, assisted by ! Miss Edna Cole. | MINISTER TAKES NEW PULPIT The Rev. Aubrey Harrell Moore, former pastor of the First Christian Church at Noblesville, will preach his initial sermon as pastor of Seventh Christian Church here Sunday morning. A reception for the new minister will be held at the church Jan. 11, < . ’

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Here are two models to be displayed al the Murat Theater by the Marimin Motor Far Company, left, the $4,175 custom-built limousine; right, the “l.ittie Marmon,” which sells for $1,895.

Between 700 and SOO automobile business men will attend the Marmon Motor Car Company, 1927 convention Monday and Tuesday at the Murat Theater, when twenty-five new models will be unveiled. The stage has been decorated for the show. Mi ss Shirley Williams, daughter of G. M. Williams, president, will christen the "Little Alarmon,” the company's newest product. Dinner at Night Bittiness sessions will be at the Murat Monday afternoon and at the Columbia Club, Tuesday. Monday

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evening a banquet will be given at the Claypool. Irving O'Hay, humorist. will speak. The first public display of the 1927 Marmon cars will be made by the Indianapolis sales branch, beginning Wednesday. The "Little Marmon” is a small, quality car with a wheelbase of 116 inches and an eight cylinder engipe capable of developing sixty-five horsepower at 3,300 revolutions per minute. Ideal Companion Each of operation, ease of riding, and superior roadability are claimed by the company for its new product.

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Above: Jim Robinson and (be cab persons through Indianapolis streets in the full glory of bis “cabbie’s” today at tho county infirmary. New Year’s day in 1927! How differently it dawned today for old- Jim Robinson, former cab driver. Back in the 80s the pale light of New Year’s morning meant escorting folks homo from good oldfashioned parties and getting them safely home before the sun came up. Parties, laughing folks, activity and life! But today, out at the county infirmary, where Jim and his faithful wife went to live a few weeks ago, nothing but the light of pleasant memories can bring smiles to the old cab driver’s face. “It’s so hard to realize all this,” he says. Glad there’s snow, though. You see, a New Year’s day always makes me think of sleiglibells. Then there was a big demand for sleighs, and many’s the jolly winter party

Extreme flexibility in the engine and beauty in design and finish make the car an ideal companion to the large Marmon. according to company officials. To provide sufficient manufacturing for tho new car Marmon is using its Plant 3, on W. Morris St., and expects soon to begin using Plant 1, formerly occupied by the" milling machinery business recently sold to the Allis-Ghalmers Company of Milwaukee. Plant 2 will continue to be used for the Marmon Series 75, the output of which is steadily increasing.

in which be drove many prominent in days gone by. I {clow: Robinson uniform and Robinson and bis wife I’ve taken out to clubs or fine country homos, with hells jingling and everybody happy.” A City Directory More than thirty years ago old Jim, known for years as the “City Directory,” because of his wide knowledge of the streets and people of Indianapolis, drove a ccb daily, and then—- “ Autos came in and horses went out —that was the beginning of the end for me.” and old Jim bowed his head, then his face brightened. “Anyway, I certainly drove a lot of prominent folks in my day—Presidents, Governors, world-famous actrqsses. I’d got a reputation for carefulness, and I didn’t let anybody look any nicer or have a shinier span of horses. When there was to be big

—By Martin

ENTER 1927 WITH HOPEFUL OUTLOOK Department of Commerce Sees Good Prospects for Year v Just Opening. -

By Herbert C. llover, Secretary of Commerce, j lli/ Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—A reply I to requests for opinion on the New I Vear's economic prospects can only . he based on tlte economic currents ! already horn of life old year. New j and unknown currents will enter i in the new year, so th°re is no such ! tiling as assured economic prophecy. No one will deny that 1926 lias shown the highest total production and consumption of industrial cotn- , modules of any year in the history of tlie L'nited States. Except in the ! textle industry and parts of ti.e oi>a! industry, it has been a year of high deg'-ee of employment, which has been accompanied by the highest peak in real wages, because wage income for the country as a whole has slightly increased and cost of living slightly decreased during the year. Manufacturing, the service industries and commerce generally have continued to improve their methods, to reduce costs and to improve services. In aggregate each industry appears to show substantial profits ex ; cept ihe textile and some parts of the coal industry. While there has been .a slackening in production and demand for several staple lines during tho past few weeks, we enter the new year with no consequential over-stock of manufactured goods. With the largest volume of construction during the past year ever known there may prove to ho some construction in advance of immediate needs, but slackening in tills direction may be partially compensated by the assurance of a larger amount of public construction during the next year. Savings of the country have shown a steady increase and there is ample cheap capital available. Some Crop Failures The lag of agricultural recovery has continued and has been accentuated by distressing crop failures in some localities. Cotton and some fruit crops beyond world demand have brought about prices below tho cost of production of large areas of those commodities. There is a consequent lowered buying power in some agricultural sections. Taking the foreign field as a whole, it shows continued progress toward balance of budgets, reduction of floating debt, greater stability in currency and somewhat diminished unemployment. The most important exception has been the results of the

doin’s in town I was always engaged a way ahead. Any of the old citizens of Indianapolis can tell you so.” Celebrities Human Robinson waxes most enthusiastic when he talks of celebrities who In the past come to town and were “pleasant like common folks.” “You’d always find it that way—that the biggest people would be the nicest and the pleasantest. It takes little folks that are just trying to be something and don't know liow to act snobbish. Now take Mrs. McKinley. When she and President McKinley were here on one occasion—l remember I drove a wonderful pair of blue roan horses that day—l handed her a \>ouquet that somebody had put into my hands. Did she ignore it — cornin' from a mere cab driver, or act as it it was nothing’? I'll say not. Site bowed and smiled, just like the wonderful little lady that she was.” "The first great man I drove was President Grover Cleveland. I wasn’t much impressed with him at tho time. He was uneasy and showed it and it was because some man had broken through the crowd with a big rush and flurry. Seemed he only wanted to say, ‘How are you, Mister President,’ but there was something startling in the way he did it. Officers hustled him off in a hurry, but Cleveland didn’t smile after that. “This was in October, ’B7. His wife was along a*nd my, but she was handsome! Cleveland took up one whole seat —he was an enormous man you know and Mrs. Cleveland and John P. Frenzel rode in the opposite seat.

Roosevelt His Choice “Charles W. Fairbanks, I’ve driven many an hour, but of all the presidential folks I ever come in contact with, Roosevelt was my choice—not ’cause I’m a Republican either. Roosevelt was so alive—lt was almost like shakin’ hands just to watch him talk—if you know what I mean. He saw everything—even the cab driver and I’ve several pleasant personal memories of T. R. “Never will I forget an experience with the great French actress, Sarah Bernhardt. I worked for Horace M. Woods in those days and he had outfitted me brand new—new r cab, new harness and a sorrel cab team that looked like it’d come out of a picture book. Bernhardt never stayed at hotels, you know. So near her private car on a siding on the Vandalia, I drove and after while, her Interpreter, loaded with several heavy and rich lap robes appeared, and presently, the great Sarah, with a maid and three dogs came out. She wanted to be driven out, where she could take a little walk, and I drove out to the other side of Fall Creek (all built up nowadays, but almost a woods then). She got out and exercised a little and later, when we were driving again, and were near Crown Hill, she wanted to drive through To the interpreter, I made known that the presence of the dogs would make that impossible "Nonsense,” Bernhardt answered. “Cover the dogs with the robes.” Carried §50,000 Jewels “We did so, but just as we got in the gates and as the gate officer came forward, those dogs set to barking furiously. “Robinson, you know dogs are not allowed in here,” the officer said. I meekly admitted that I knew and drove out and Bernhardt fairly made the air blue with a string of French words. I’ve my private opinion of their meaning. By the way, with us was all her jewelry—valued it was said at $50,000. It was in a suit case under her seat. She never went any place without her jewelry, you know. Marlowe Was Beautiful “Julia Marlowe was an actress whom I drove and shall never forfeit, She waa so beautiful (uid so

I British coal strike, which left the world poorer by its interruption to the progress of that country, but this is now happily over. Russia shows some economic improvement, and China,,due to international trade relations, still continues below normal. Each year sees progress in European political relations, with Tear less and ! less a dominating factor. Combining all foreign and domestic tendencies with which we enter the new year, while some of them are not so good as we could wish, others are most hopeful. To those who arc interested in the movement of the business cycle, it is worth remarking that we have had no inflation in commodities, as prices have decreased rather than increased during the year. Moreover, tho elasticity of credit through the Federal j reserve system, the absence of un- , due stocks of commodities, the greatly enlarged information services of the country and wider understanding (and thus better common judgment > and caution) are all protections ! against violent movements such as we experienced in former times. Economic Progress The Nation is making economic progress. Some areas lag behind others, and discontent with the lag is an assurance of a lively sense of initiative and the best promise of remedy. Each individual tests the question of prosperity by his own setting and naturally applies his own test to his views of the econorniic state of the Nation. If we use the more precise term, “economic progress,” we find we have per capita as the result of the year 1926 more and better homes, more electric lights and power, more transportation, more roads, more substantial buildings, more radios and more automobiles, more savings, more life insurance and more of a lot of things. We also have more educational facilities and more per capita circulation of newspapers and magazines than ever before.

Altogether we enter the New Year with a job in prospect for most everybody, with the whole Nation better fed, better housed and better clothed than any other nation. The large disappearance of poverty in the chrrfcic sense should make us more sensible to the remedy of misfortune in tho individual sense, and the high recovery of industry and commerce form the losses of the war should make us more sensible of the needs of agriculture.

gracious. Os the prominent foreigners I have driven, there Is such a long list, I scarcely know where to begin. I got most well acquainted with Prince Boris of Budapest. He was very chatty and friendly and one morning I drove him to University Park where he made a minute examination of Benjamin Harrison’s monument. He intended putting up such ft monumont in Budapest in memory of his father, it seemed. Prince Lung from China was another foreign visitor that stands readily out in memory. Personality, you know.” “Governors—-my, but I've driven a lot of ’em and siruply hundreds of members of the best old Indianapolis families. So many of them are gone now. I always say I've at least ten thousand friends out in Crown Hill, for they were friends, you know—l knew my place, and they knew that I did, and they liked me." This brought the old fellow back to his present fortunes. "I’m out here In this country home because I drank or squandered my money,” lie explained. “You see, my wife is paralyzed and after I got rheumatism some years ago I couldn’t work any more and so we just gradually went down hill, and a few weeks ago we were sent here. A lot of my old patrons would be sorry to know this, I know. Maybe if autos hadn’t of come in and horses would have stayed on, and I could have kept to my cab driving, this wouldn’t have come about. Who knows?”

Hoosier Briefs

Harry Cash, 16, of Petersburg broke his leg in two places when he fell in a snow ball battle. Muncie police were stumped when Virgil Mansfield charged with issuing bad checks, told them he had no trade. So they wrote on the slate: Occupation, shiek. Conn Music Center at Elkhart is celebrating the eighthietli anniversary of the birth of the saxaphone. O. S. Saint of Greenfield had high turkey today for dinner. It was sent to him from the Rocky Mountains. Alva Clark, Washington, made a New Year’s resolution today not to crank any more autos in gear. He was injured when his auto crashed into another after dragging him several feet. J. Edwards Higgs, building Inspector and John Holden city hall janitor at Richmond are recalling days when North A street there was a sleigh race course. More than $6,000 has been paid out to trappers around Frankfort by David Siegfried, fur buyer at Mulberry. One man sold him 110 muskrat skins, mink, skunk and coon skins. Redecorating of the courthouse at Wabash was delayed. J. W. Keim, who held the contract, had six teeth pulled.

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RAILROAD VETERAN END RUi Three Retire on Pe Today—Long Reccr of Service. Three veteran Indianapolis road employes retired from a service today. Two of tha were employes of the Penns* and the other of the Big £* They are: P. H. RogetS B’letcher Ave., who has been j ■Four engineer fifty years and] months; Sylvester M. RickettsJ is making his last run on

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Pennsylvania as a condtnLpiM thirty-eight years of servfvcl Charles O. B'ulmcr, mastcS maker of the Pennsylvania fifty-six years and eight monl Rogers started Railroading 1876, as a painter I foreman | has been fireman and engineca was promoted to fireman in 1 and to engineer in 1883. I For six years he has been ol Inaianapolis-Cincinnati run, pi] the Transcontinental Limited j here at 3 p. m. dally and retd on the White City Flyer, arl here at 2:05 a. m. J He has never had a wreck.l was born July 31, 1861, at I Haven, Conn. I Ricketts, who is 76, left a] ■ P. m. on his last run on the J \ ican, when he “donducts” it a j lumbus, Ohio. In the t car will be a bouquet of tvi three roses, with the folltnvii] scription. “Honor Sylvester j etts, conductor of this train,] today completes more than td three years of service as a pa ger conductor, and having rel the ago of 70 today, is placed o] Pennsylvania Railroad’s rol honor.” i Fulmer started service Pennsylvania in Eighty-four sylvania, over tho entire coil are retiring today. Gone but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen t| lice belong to; I Lillian Edwards, 2621 N. DelJ St., Chevrolet, from New Yorld Meridian Sts. | Floyd Gatewood, 1622 Cental St„ Chevrolet, 583-091, from Men and New York Sts. D. R. Nixon, 551 S. IlllnolJ Chrysler, from In front of tha] dress. John Kettwell. 518 N. Capitol Ford, from Delaware and Henrjl David Barksdale, 2439 Cfl Ave., Chevrolet, 6562, from Dels] and. Washlgton Sts. Hertz Drive Yourself Systed W. Vermont St., Hertz, 522-598,] 4224 N. Illinois St. John Plummer, 422 Cons Chevrolet, 150-545, from in fro] that address. G. L. Hammond, 1809 N. 1 sylvania St., Star, 586-497* fra front of that address. j Hoosier Rent a Car, 127 BJ. bash St., Ford, 574-261, from gi at that address. , Charles Ellis, 2108 Boulevard Ford, 677-316, from Walnut St] Senate Ave. | W. H. Yantes, E. Thlrty-H] St., Chevrolet, 610-718, from 2t Twenty-Second St. E. S. Meyers, 4525 Park Ford, from Michigan and Yllinol

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