Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1927 — Page 2

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$1,200 BANK HOLD-UP REWARDS ARE OFFERED

SENATE PREPARES TO FORM POLICy IN FOREIGN FIELD Resolutions on Mexican and Nicaraguan Affairs Await Action. Bu Initrd Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The Senate prepared today for definite action toward arbitration of the Mexican-Nicaraguan controversy. For several days there has been sporadic debate —much of it bitter, and some of it denunciatory of administration policy—and now leaders have set aside Monday for consideration of the modified Robinson resolution urging arbitration of differences between the United States and her. neighbors below the Rio Grande. This resolution, likely to pass, would place the Senate squarely on record for arbitration, and may influence the administration. The measure of the Senate’s influence will depend upon its ability to suggest a practical means of arbitration, it is believed. The administration claims to have been casting about for a formula, but has not yet been successful. Neither has it committed itself definitely to arbitration, though President Coolidge believes the Robinson resolution may serve to clarify the public mind here and abroad concerning the Senate's position.

FOOL RURAL FOLK LESS EASILY THAN URBANRESIDENTS So Said Houdini in Last Interview Before His Death. /; i I nitrd PrcaH ■ NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Rural folk are much harder to fool than metropolitan audiences, the late Harry j Houdini maintained in what is claimed to be the last interview ever granted by him, published in the January number of “Farm and Fireside.” “If you can get away get away with a thrick before a country audios you can get away with it anyicre,” Houdini asserted. Among Rural Folk The handcuff and escape king had plenty of opportunity to observe the reaction of rural people to his tricks', for it was among them that he first practiced the magician's art. He related several experiences he had with members of the audience. Once in lowa, ho said a farmer challenged him to make his escape from his thief-proof barn within an hour. Although he had broken out of numerous jails Houdini was baffled by the locked barn and it was just before the time expired that the magician leaned against the door and it opened. The farmer afterwards informed him that he had left that section of the door unlocked out of pity for Houdini. i Just a Trick & “There is nothing supernatural in ®what I do, although sophisticated observers say there is," Houdini stated the interview.. “No spirits help me. No magic trick has ever been done that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. In cities they fall for the claims of occuplists, and sometimes believe implicitly in spiritualistic hokum. In country parts,, where emen themselves perform the magic of making the soil harvest. I've found them less gullible. They know it's just a trick.” AMINA BE GIVEN HOSPITAL Members of Congress Call on Veterans’ Chief. Times Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. The majorit} of the Indiana congress'jnal including Representatives Updike, Johnson and Kowbottom, called today upon Maj. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of'the Veterans’ bureau, to ask that anew hospital fpr ex-service men be alloi ate cl to Indiana. Updike led the pa’ ty. Under a ibill recently introduced, Mines and President Coolidge are empowered to select sites for new 'manuals for which sixteen million dollars is authorized. One of the , i pi als was originally said to be allocated to Kentucky to serve Kentucky and Indiana, and It. is this hospital the Congressmen asked for Indiana. 1 BLAZE AT ELWOOD Power Subßtadon Damaged $6,000 by Fire. Bu Times Bucriul ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 22.—A short circuit was blamed today for a fire which did $6,000 to SB,OOO darrjpge to the Union Traction Company’s substation here. Traction cars were delayed two hours. Dick Plummer, fireman, was hurt when he fell through the roof while fighting the blaze.

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"Bunny” Browning, big trial and trouble man from New York, was given something else to worry about when Renee Shapiro, here perusing her complaint, filed a $100,(f)0 suit against him for alleged assault. What with “Peaches” Browning’s separation action about to come to trial and Alary Louise Spas’ $300,000 suit on the calendar. Browning faces many anxious days in court. .

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Boss Goodman of Evansville was hunting the deed to his cemetery lot. He found it and also a picture of another man sent to his wife. “I just got mad, judge,” hie told a court,

COMMUNITY FUND MEETING PLANNED ‘Back Home in Indiana,’ Slogan of Conference. Work of selecting committees and arranging the program for the seventh annual meeting of the Community ’Fund is being rapidly completed. Affiliated agencies are preparing for a speakers’ contest!. A preliminary contest to determine the three best entrants will be hel# Feb. 5. Winning contestants will deliver five-minute speeches at the meeting Feb. 8, at the Clay pool. The rest of the program is being planned as a “Back Home Again in Indiana” welcome to the speaker, Dr. John A. Lapp, of Chicago, president of the National Conference of Social Work. Mi*s. Peter C. Reilly appointed these chairmen: Mrs. Samuel Elliott Perkins, reception; Mrs. Wolf Sussman, decorations; attendence and promotion, Mrs. R. Harry Miller, and music, Mrs. Hugh McGibcny.

NEW POTATOES LATEST PRODUCT! Price of Avacatle Pears Drop to 60 Cents. New potatoes made their appear ance at the city market today, 5... ing two pounds for 25 cents. Avacada pears dropped from 75 cents to 50 cents each. Strawberries continue to fluctuate about weekly, but remain within a narrow ! range. At present they have ad- ! vanced to 40 cents a pint and 80 to 85 a quart. Fancy hothouse tomatoes sold at. 50 cents a pound. Chicken fries are scaree, but the price has not increased from 50 cents a pound. All.other produce was unchanged. WILL ADDRESS ROTARY Members to Hear Auto Liability Insurance Talk. Edward C. Stonq of Boston will address the Indianapolis Rotary Club in the Chateau room at the Claypool, Tuesday, on *'Compulsory Automobile Liability Insurance.” Stone is United State manager of the Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation of London, England. Auto liability insurance is now in force in Massachusetts. PROBE BANK CONFESSION Veteran Bookkeeper Said to Have Admitted Defalcation. Bu linns Bvecial JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Jan 22.—Federal authorities today were investigating an alleged confession said to have been made by George 11. Coleman, 50, veteran bookkeeper that he had pmbezzled $19,000 from the First National Bank here. Coleman admitted his alleged defalcations to H. H. Heaton, president of the bank, when the latter asked him to resign.! V

explaining why. he attacked his wife. “Five and costs,” said the judge. Catching crooks is safer than catching street cars* according to Patrolman Patrick Haley of Terre Haute. He fell anil broke his arm boarding a car. Fish may go to jail at Jeffersonville without qualms. There’s five inches of water in the basement, due to incessant rains. .They put teeth in their advertisements at Richmond. One citizen lost his false molars as lie stepped from a bus. He advertised his loss and. they were returned. John N. Shelby has been re-elected president, of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Joseph Fries reports the first robin seen this year at Connersville. Margaret Shea, lias been judged the prettiest girl at Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute. Theodore Petree of Greensburg may try steeple chasing in his auto. The machine cleared a hedge when the steering rod broke. No one was hurt. When Bum, Frankfort's pet dog, was run over by traction car, police were too tender hearted to shoot him and sent him to a veterinary hospital. St. Paul's Lutlferan Church at Richmond will be seventy-five years old next October. A jubilee is planned. Monon is the latest Indiana town to enjoy an oil boom. Oil was discovered in an old well drilled a year ago.

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INSTITUTIONS TO DIVE ARGUMENTS ON BUDGET CUTS Large Decreases to Draw Fire From Many Sources —Big Slashes N ted. Indiana’s biennial budget bill calling for an expenditure of $48,642,406. tall be introduced in the House of Representatives when the Legislature reconvenes Mondny afternoon. A spirited fight is expected to be waged by the various State institutions whose requests have been slashed. * Although $2,035,191 more has been allowed the various departments than in the 1925-1926 budget, it is still $21,226,266.37 short of amounts requested.

Increases Greater Forty-nine lncigases are suggested for a total of $3,161,340. while thir-ty-four decreases are recommended for the sum of $894,949. / The largest individual increase is $500,000 for the two-year period granted the State highway commU- ' sion. The $22,300,000 recommended falls $17,500,000 short of the request. Indiana University, proper, at Bloomington, gets $425,000 more for the ensuing two years than it had in the past biennial period. Os this amount $300,000 goes for building purposes, leaving $62,500 a year for books, equipment and faculty salary increases. Expect Controversy On this Item friends of the university expect to wage a determined fight. They have prepared schedules of comparison with other State institutions of higher learning to prove tneir point. Compared with the university in crease, attention has been to a boost of $200,000 allowed the Indiana State Prison. Purdue University gets $243,000 more for the next two years than it had in the last. A high official of the school is reported to have told the budget committee when framing the report that it would take *5,000,000 to put the school in proper shape. Four hundreds thousand dollars Is appropriated for construction of the new Indiana Blind School, necessitated by its removal from the War Memorial Plaza. Annual Taxes $200,000,000 The State conservation depart ment will have $239,600 more to spend than in the last biennial term. The tax levy has been set at 23 cents for 1927. The report of the budget committee transmitted to the Governor was signed by Senator Luther O. Draper (Rep.\ of Spjceland; Thurman A. Gottschalk (Dem.l, of Berne, and Representatives Samuel J. Far rell (Rep.), of Hartford City, and Addison Drake (Dem.), of Fairbanks. Lawrence Orr, State examiner of the board of accounts joined as the fifth member of the committee. Direct and indirect taxes of In diana now amount to $200,000,000 a year. 0. K. PLANT PURCHASE City of Bicknell to Buy Water Company; Authorize Bonds. Purchase of the Bicknell Water Company plant by the city of Bicknell was authorized Friday by the public service commission. Authority was given to issue $185,000 in bonds to cover the purchase price of $112,000 and to make needed improvements. An issue of SIOO,OOO 6 per cent par value first mortgage bonds, $441,000 general mortgage bond* and 10,290 shares no par value stock was authe Ft. Wayne-Lima Railroad Company to cover the purchase of the Ft. Wayne, Van Wert & Lima Traction Company properties. V'.go Mutual Telephone Company was granted a small increase in telephone rates.

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You can lie easily, and yet not sleep so well. HONOR AWARDS GIVEN STUDENTS AT MANUAL H. S. Scholarship Rewards Presented Pupils—Holliday Prizes Distributed. Honor awards were made Friday to Manual Training High School students. Top-Ten buttons were •awarded sixty-three students who had the highest scholastic averages for the fall semester. Pupils who made excellent grades were awarded John H. Holliday Jr., Foundation prize*. The Top-Ten plan was instituted in 1020, by E. H. K. MeComb, principal, giving honorable mention to students with an average of 87.5. The thirty bdys and girls in feach house (a school division of which there are two), received buttons. The Holliday Foundation awards culminate in cash prizes. 'The language and music departments make awards in June. The Top-Ten buttons awarded: Rod House—Lawrence J„entz, Paul I.ohss. Raymond Brelineman. Alvin Brehoh, Albert Chillou. Charles Ayres. James McDaniel. Constantin Borsbon. William Mendel I. Rob rt Bernd. Forest Beson. Elmer foster. Durbin Tacoma. Leo Kirch. Robert Howerton. Georse Fink, Margaret Kline. Josephine Carter. Ethel Blum Marie Milkr. Joan Boswell. Hazel Rainbolt. Enid Dick. Louise Givati. Irene Newel. Dorothy Addington. Hazel Newell. Martha Walther. Virginia Turner. Marie Grossman. Catherine Wollam. Virginia Hassler and Irene Moore. White House —Robert Greenberg. William Winter, Earl Burger. Lemuel Brown, Harold Strait. John Stilz A'bert Urwitz. Edward Throm, Alden Wiiking. Alfred Hollander. Robert Hant Gilbert Flake. .Wilbur Harris. Eugene Bitch Saul Fogle. Ruth Dawson. Mildred Goueher Virginia Harris. Helena Johnson. 4ona Johnson, Julia Miller. Frances Dearborn. Lora Meyer. Irma Seitz. Claska Wit. Norma Amt. Dorothy Bluemel, Eva Burger. Irma Anderson and Lei a Walton Holliday Foundation prizes awarded: English department. Mary Miller:;'commercial department Crystal .Douglas: shop and mechanical drawing department. Charles Creasser and Howard Renick: physical education department. Forrest Echols and Clara Stephens. Honorable mention: Lewis Poliak. Alfred Horton. Alvin Brehob. Anne Barnes. Leona Kozakicwicsz. Lorena Bass. Bertha Curtis. Other Holliday awards: Athletic awards to Clyde Hutton, Edward Rassinuescn, Jack Turner, Bert Kellermeyer. Jones Lyles. Jesse Hunt. Isaac Muse. Fred Henselmeier, Joe Risley. Oeorgo Harlan. William Susemichael. Herman Williamson. Elmore Rice. George May. Harold Slagel, Arlie Weaver. Wilfred Machmeyer. Raymond Owens, Lawrence Laughlin. Char'es Whitehead. John Maupin. Norris Cutshaw. George Benson. Theodore Frantzreb. Leonard Harrison. Robert Tilford. Alex Burris, Dane Jones. Phillip VVoerurr. Abe Miller. Robert Cooniler, Paul Kleppe. Norman Stanley. Harold Wilhoit. Genero Grandolph. Elmer Heinrichs Edwin Cook. William Raaehe. William Stine. Ray E. Beattie. Harold Genier. Richard Thompson. The physical education department awarded medals to Harold Wilhoit, Willis Vaughn and Robert Thrasher. ' Building Permits Jose-Kuhn Sales Company, turnace, 323840 Bellelontaine. $430. J. A. Baivden, furnace. 548 E. FiftySecond. $350. J. A. Baivden. furnace. 5202 Broadwav, S3OO. Thomas Dugan, furnace. 1010 S. West. $320. Willis Gobin, furnace. 1105 N. CKney, S3B V

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MORE FUNDS FOR GOOD HIGHWAYS, PLEA OF STOOPS All-Weather Road Safety Urged by Motor Club Manager. Additional funds for the State 1 highway commission' are needed if j Indiana is to keep abreast with other States in good roads, Tod Stoops, | Hoosier Motor Club manager, deI dared today. “Os the 80,533 miles of roads in | Indiana only 1,864 are hard surfaced. 1 Macadam and water-bound roads | total 12,662, leaving 25,461 of gravel \ and 40,514 of unimproved earth,” I said Stoops. Indiana in Lead Indiana leads the States with 39,88S miles of improved roads, but the type of roads are becoming obsolete with the changing traffic conditions. Stoops cited. “All weather road safety must be built into our highways,” said Stoops. The Hoosier State has dropped to ninth place in the modern type of improving, he pointed out. “The hard surfaced road which is being built in the most progressive States serves as an aHery for communication and commerce all seasons of the year, be; id4s showing a tremendous saving to motorists in depreciation and gas consumption,” declared the motor official. Saving Pointed Out That commercial firms and real estate values benefitffrom good road* as much as the motorist is the view of the club> "Eighty per cent of the population of Indiana lives within one mile of the State highway system, so that two-thirds of the travel in Indiana must be served by the 5,000 miles comprising the State system. There are 700,000 cars in Indiana that will average 5.000 miles of travel a year. A cent a mile savfhg on the tire bill alone would amount to $35,000,000 a • year to the motorists of Indiana if all the roads were paved, but if just the State highway system, which serves two-thirds of the travel could lie paved there would still be a saving to Hoosiers of over $22,000,000 a year on tires and a still greater saving on wear of the car and gasoline consumption.

GEN. EVERSON TO DELIVER SPEECH Former Local Minister Will Give Talk Sunday. Gen. William Graham Everson of the American forces in Italy during the World War and former Indianapolis minister, will speak at English's Theater Sunday under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. on “Exceeding tiie Speed Limit.” General Everson left Indianapolis 1 as a young man to serve as a pastor in Boston, Louisville and Cincinnati. Later he entered the Army as a private. Special music has been prepared for the Sunday meeting. SECOND LONGEST PHONE LINE OPEN L • Australian Postoffice Installs * Service. Bu l nited Press SYDNEY, Jan. 22.—The second longest trunk telephone line in the world has just been opened by the Australian postal department for public traffic between Townsville' in the north of Queensland, and Melbourne, capital of Victoria, a southern state. The line runs almost, the entire length of the continent. It is 2017 miles lor.g, and the New YorkSan Francisco line is the only line of greater ler.gth known to postal officials here. Highly sensitized instruments magnify voice sounds at ten stations along the route. The fee -for three minutes’ conversation between the two terminals of the line is slightly less than four dollars or about half the fee for a similar cali over the same length of line in the U 'ted States. 4 ‘MAD EMPRESS’ RESTS Simple Kites Mark Funeral of Unhappy Carlotta. , Bu United Press BRUSSELS, Jan. 22.—With the simplest of rites and attended by a small cavalry escort, the late Carlotta, the “mad empress” of Mexico, was burled here today. , King Albert of Belgium, Prince Charles and Prince Leopold were the only members of royalty who accompanied the slow moving cortege from the Castle Bouchout to Church Daeken. seven kilmeters away. The coffin was placed a fourhorsed hears as cavalry presented arms and trumpeters blew a muffled valedictory for th'e woman who once played a leading role In the tragic fight for a North American empire. Learning the Bible self-imposed task of the 40,000 members of the Berean Band of Bible Learners. The movement Is twentyone years old and was originated in

SI,OOO for Arrest of Bandits—s2oo , Return of Checks—Victim Held i for Questioning. Twelve hundred dollars reward was offered today for the capture and convcition of the bandits who robbed Paul Tolan. 18, of 830 Bates St., messenger for the Livestock Exchange Bank, of $5,500 in cash Friday and for the return of SIBI,OOO in cancelled checks also taken by the bandits.

In the meantime Tolan was held by police, on a vagrancy charge, for questioning. One thousand of the $1,200 reward is offered by the Marion County Bankers’ Association for the capture and conviction of the bandits. For Checks' Return The additional S2OO is offereS by the Indianapolis Clearing House Association for the return of the slßl,000 in cancelled checks. According to clearing' house officials, the checks are worthless and the reward is offered to save the banks the work of checking up records. Until the other clearing house banks check their records or the checks are returned, the Livestock Exchange Bank is unable to tell against what accounts of their customers the SIBI,OOO should be charged. Tolan was robbed while en route from the downtown banks where he obtained the money. He had boarded a street car and was sitting near the back of the car when a man who was standing on the back platform pulled a gun, seized the money satchel and leaped off the car, he said. An auto that was following 'the street car pulled up to the curb and the bandit leaped in. The robbery was perfectly timed, for the conductor had left the car through the front door to flag the railroad crossing at Dakota and Morris Sts. No Regular Day Tolai\ told police the had no regular day to carry money from the bank. He was certain the bandit boarded the car downtown while the conductor of the car said be believed the man boarded the car at Norwood and West Sts. Tolan was sure the bandit carried a .38-calibre automatic pistol. He said he never owned or carried a gun, and was equally sure the car the bandit escaped in was an Oldsmobile coachz Other witnesses could only verify his statement as to color of the auto, police said. The bandit was picked up by a companion who trailed the street car for several blocks in an auto. Dudley C. Griffith, Standard Accident Insurance Company manager, 305 Wild Bldg., who has been working on the case with Detectives Golnish and Feeney, said “as the case stands we have no reward to offer.” Shafter Gambrell, 430 S. West St., street car conductor, reiterated his statement to police today that the Since Friday Gambrell declared he bandit got on the cur at. Norwood St. had talked with a Negro postman, who said he saw the bandit car and that it was a blue Marmon. Druggist Robbed Luther Murdock, 53, druggist, 349 S. East St., was held-up Friday by two youthful bandits who asked for a package of cigarets and then pulled a gun on Murdock relieving him of SSOO. Two other men who stood in the rear of the store with hands in their pockets were thought by police and Murdock, to be members of the bandit gang, although neither drew revolvers. They left before the other two men ran.

Russell Clark. 23, and William H. Bush, both of 810 Harmon St., were arrested early today at Lafayette Pike and Ave.. on charges of vagrancy and larceny. Lieut. O. D. Thomas said they were held by Omer Boyd, proprietor of a filling station at the above address. Boyd said he heard some one at the station and armed himself. The two had an auto parked alongside of a gasoline pump, the lock of which had been broken off. The auto tank and two full five-gal-lon cans in the! car were full. 60 HURT DURING FIGHT German Police Disperse Combatants in Political Clash. m Bu Unlited Press KIbJL, Germany, Jan. 22.—Sixty persons were injured, many seriously, when a free-for-all fight of socialists communists against the “steel helmeters” broke up their joint meeting liere today. Charges by Walter Von Korodi, former military officer, in addressing the “steel helmeters,” that the republican organization “Reichsbanner” was guilty of treason precipitated the clash. The communists and socialists in the gathering demanded right to reply. The chairman refused. The rebuffed persons retaliated by flinging chairs from galleries and the fight became general. Swinging night sticks right and left, a squadron of police charged into the hall and dispersed the bleeding and battered combatants. Many of the injured were taken to hospitals.

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HOPE INCREASING FOR PASSAGE OP FARMRELIEF BILL Altered McNary - Haugen Measure Creates Favorable Impression. Times Washington Bureau. 1322 Xew York Avenue WASHINGTON, J*an. 22.—With only seven weeks left this session, agricultural leaders in Congress are more hopeful than ever of passiiw a farm relief bill. ™ At hearings just completed by the Senate Agricultural Committee on the McNary-Haugen surplus control bill, not one farm delegate raised objection to the measure. “This is the first time sice I became a member of the agricultural committee that this situation has developed,” Senator McNary, Oregon, committee chairman, said today. Some amendments may be made, but McNary thinks the measure will be repotred out at the next meeting. “I think it is safe to say that this Congress will pass legislation which will aid the farmers to market their crops in an orderly manner,” Senator Smith, South Carolina, said. In the House, Representative Haugen, lowa, co-author of'the bill, predicted that body will vote on the bill by Feb. 10. “Ad soon as the appropriation bills are out of the way I will move to take up the farm bill, and I expect a vote by Feb. 5 or 10,” Haugen said. Unlike Defeated Bill The bill to be considered this year differs considerably from the Mc-Nary-Haugen measure which was defeated in both Houses last year. There is no refenrence to the tariff in the new bill and no mention of price except that the declaration of policy provides for the control and disposition of the surplus “to prevent such surpluses from unduly depressing the prices obtained for such commodities.” The former bill authorized a volving fund appropriation of $375V 000,000, divided as follows: SIOO.000,000 for cotton, $250,000,000 for other basic commodities and $25,000,000 for loans. The new measure authorizes $250,000,000 without subdividing it. In the present bill the equalization fee, which was especially objec tionabie to the South, can be imposed at the time of crop transportation instead of being imposed on the farmer at the time of sale.

South’s Favor Grows Because of elimination of references to tariff and the change in collecting the equalization fee, the new measure is regarded much more favorably In the South, whose representatives were largely responsible for the bill's defeat last year. Appearing before the Senate committee, Samuel H. Thompson, president of tlje American Farm Bureau Federation, praised the bill. . “I think it recognizes the principle of aiding the bargaining power of the farmer: that is fundamental because it strikes right at the root of the troubll. This bill ought to aid efficient production and intelligent production. I think it is sound,” Thompson said. Expressions of cotton cooperative association officials was equally favorable. “We believe the McNary-Haugen bill is the best thing that has been proposed for taking the cotton surplus and distributing it.” Director E. W. Kilgore, chairman of American Cotton Growers’ change, said. ffSK FALL TRIAL DELAY Lawyers Seek Postponement as Physician Holds Condition Serious. Bu United Press EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 22.—An attempt to obtain postponement of a hearing on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government is being made by lawyers for Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, members of his family admitted to, ' day. Dr. H. T. Safford, personal physician of the former Cabinet officiat; said a trip to Washington within the next two months would mean Fall's “certain and immediate death.”