Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1927 — Page 3

DEC. 24, 1927.

SENATE BEHIND HOUSE IN RAGE TO PASS DILLS Smith-Vare Fight Delays Work; Three Major Laws Through. BY BOSCOE B. FLEMING WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Members of the House should be able to eat their Christmas turkey and draw their holiday pay at the rate of SIO,OOO a year with an easier conscience than senators. In the fifteen days’ working time between Dec. 5, when the seventieth Congress met, and Friday when both houses adjourned for the holidays until Jan. 4, the House had spent more than twice the time in session spent by the Senate. Senate in 3-Hour Day The House was in session on fourteen of the fifteen week days, and spent a total of sixty-three hours and twenty minutes, or more than four hours a day, in the chamber. The Senate had met only eleven hut of the fifteen week days, and had spent thirty-one hours and forty-three minutes on the floor, not counting several short recesses, or an average of slighty less than three hours a session. The House had passed three major bills before its adjournment, two of them at least being worked out by committees before the session started and presented shortly after organization. Three Major Bills Pass These three major bills were the first deficiency appropriation bill, carrying $200,000,000 for the relief of Government departments left without money by the failure of supply bills in the Senate filibuster last spring, the tax bill carrying a $290,000,000 tax reduction, and the alien property measure for the return to its owners of German property seized during the war. The Senate passed only one of these, the deficiency bill, and committees will not even begin work on the others until after Christmas. Hearst Created Stir In Justice to the Senate, it should be said that it could not take up any other business until the status of Senators-elect Vare and Smith, of Pennsylvania and Illinois, was settled, and this took up most of the first week. They were denied the oath. Only one major sensation marked a quiet and unexciting first three weeks of the seventieth Congress. This was the Senate hearing into the charge by William Randolph Hearst that the Mexican government had appropriated $1,215,000 to pay four United States Senators. Although the committee has nat completed its work, four of its members have stated in the Senate t<hat the four Senators mentioned in, the charges are “uncorrvipted and. incorruptible,” and that if such money were appropriated the real purpose was covered up by the notation that it was to be used in the United states Senate.

NAME TRUSTEE FOR PERU MAN’S ESTATE Fletcher Bank Appointed to Handle Valuable Property. Fletcher Savings and Trust Company and Willisuin B. Schiltges, vice president, have "been named trustees for heirs of a part of the estate of the late Milttra A. Edwards, Peru, it was announced today. The agreement involves property in Indiana, Texas, Michigan and Illinois. Half of the estate is to be held in trust, the income going to the widow during her life time. At her death that portion of the estate will go to four relatives. The property includes interest in downtown real estate in Chicago; part ownership in 4.500 acres of land in Upton and Terrell Counties, Texas; more than 500 acres of Lake Michigan frontage in Lelanau, Mason and Grand Traverse Counties in Michigan; many pieces of real estate in Peru, Ind., and Miami County, Wabash County, Indiana, and elsewhere. Additional property comprises $28,000 in cash; stocks in Indianapolis banks and trust companies; stocks in Pern banks and industries; stocks in Chicago hotel companies; New York utility corporations. Liberty Oonds, bonds of the Republic of ’ Texico and other securities. Total alue was not estimated. 'ABBIIAYS wine not NEED OF SYNAGOGUES ’ ader of Terre Haute Jews Asserts Grape Juice Will Do. ‘a Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 24. Wine for sacramental purposes in Jewish synagogues is unnecessary, and gfape juice will serve the purpose as well, according to Rabbi J. 'larshall Taxay of Temple Israel nere. The rabbi commented as follows when informed that new prohibition egulations required that rabbis keep i record of wine obtained oy members of their congregations: “According to the Jewish Church 'aw of America, grape Juice is just s good to use in our services as wine. There is no reason why wine hould be used at all, and I want the wople to know my stand on this.” Presents Old Claim it ii Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 24.—James Morrow, Vernon Center, Minn., has written O. O. Butcher, Howard County auditor here seeking collection of some money his brother, now deceased, donated toward erection of a school building here forty-six years ago. The auditor has been unable to And any trace of the matter. Morrow said the money was donated with the understanding it would be refunded. Five Die in Mine Blast BsiVnited Press BERLIN, Dec. 24.—Five ipen were killed and two others seriously injured in a mine explosioii at the Luttgen mine at Dortmundl according to advices here. \

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PUZZLE PRIZES OUT MONDAY No. 3 Head—See Puzzle Today’s Times Offers Cash to Contestants. BY PUZZLE-HEAD TED Here we are again, puzzlers, with another chance for you to gather some of Puzzle-Head Ted’s daily cash! All you have to do is follow the rules governing Puzzle-Head printed today and rearrange the No. 3 head lines in today’s Times cleverly. Monday, the winners of the first Puzzle-Head contest will be announced. In making yqur Puzzle-Mead lists puzzlers, strive for originality an> cleverness. That’s rule No. 1. The length of your list is secondary to its cleverness. This rule is necessary to remove the temptation to list some PuzzleHead that are not perfectly clear in meaning. The daily cash, prizes consist of $5, $3 and $2 for the best thr.|) Puz-zle-Head lists submitted each day. Today’s list must reach PuzzleHead Ted at The Times by 5 p. m. Wednesday. Prize winners announced ney.t Wednesday. LENGTHEN LIFE SPAN Better Care for Babies Held Cause by Official. A tot lucky enough to be bom in JJ92B probably will live 140 days longer than the baby of 1927 according to the United States public health service. “Why not?” asked Dr. William F. King, secretary of the State health board. “Even if we learn nothing new about disease prevention in the next fifteen years, the life span probably will increase fifteen years. “The explanation is simple,” he continued. “It is merely that everyone gets better care; there is a better knowledge of baby hygiene; better pre-natal care of the mother; better care in schools; and general elimination of contagious disease. “Increase of natural life may reach even a century,” he said. “There is no limit because more practical interest is taken in the health problems than any other one thing. The baby of 1930 will have it ‘all over’ the baby of 1928 just as the latter has surer chances of long life than the tot of 1920.”

SPEEDWAY RAILROAD CROSSING ORDERED State Commission Directs Winton. Ave. Improvement. The public service commission Friday ordered the T. H. I. & E. Traction Company and the C., C., C. & St. L. Railroad to construct a crossing in Speedway City across Winton Ave. to the Crawfordsville Pike. The crossing was asked by the Schloss Brothers Investment Company, claiming that It ris a public necessity. It is to be twenty-four feet wide. The railroads were ordered to clear the underbrush 500 feet on each side. Permission was granted the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railway to discontinue passenger train service of Nos. 9 and 32 between Anderson and Jeffersonville, and instead to restore for a three months’ period service trains Nos. 1 and 2 on a schedule previously in force. SLACK ON HOLIDAY TRIP Mayor and Wife Will Leave for Trafalgar Tonight. Mayor L. Ert Slack and Mrs. Slack will motor to Trafalgar tonight to spend Christmas Eve with the mayor’s parents. Slack celebrated Christmas with city hall employes today in the hall rotunda, when presents were handed from a Christmas tree. Mayor Slack will return to Indianapolis Sunday and eat Christmas dinner at the home of Mrs. Slack’s sister, Mrs. Fred Ulrich, 3055 Broadway.

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Like the little Christ child, these Indianapolis babies arrived on Dec. 25. Tomorrow their happy parents will celebrate their first birthday. Left to right (above), Magdalene Rosa Bisesi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bisesi, 831 S. East St.; Mary Aileen Giles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Landy Giles, 936 Moreland Ave.; Lester Wicker Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester L. Wicker, 5735 Rawles Ave.; right, below, Emroe Spicklemire, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Spicklemire, 1111 Ewing St., and

Plan Christmas Tree for Detention Home Matron

Twentieth Year of Service to Be Celebrated; Gifts Arrive.

Sunday will be the twentieth Christmas for Miss Susana Fray as matron at the Marion County Detention Home and the event is to be celebrated. Indianapolis park board has furnished a tree and there will be gifts for all the children, toys, candy, handkerchiefs and books. The books were donated. There are eight for the boys’ and eight for the girls’ departments. The Rev. F. S. C. Wicks, chairman of the Rotary Club Christmas committee, presented a $25 check as the club’s gift. Custodian Clinton Manford gave Miss Pray an illustrated book of Bible stories to be used in the Sunday School class which she conducts for all the children each Sunday. Christmas dinner, with all the trimmings, will be served at noon and a religious service will follow. A large new phonograph will be inaugurated when the tree is lighted. It was bought with funds supplied by friends of the institution, Miss Isabelle Summerville, chief probation officers of Juvenile Court, having charge of the purchase. Assistant Matron Jane Martin aided in preparing the program. There are nine girls and one boy at the home now. The boy is a State charge, sent there by the Board of Charities for adoption. He is 15 and is an orphan from Orange County. FETE FOR VETERAN, 101 Oldest Mexican War Survivor to Be Honored Sunday. By Times Sprrial REELSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 24.. Uriah Gasaway, 101, oldest of the six surviving veterans of the war with Mexico, will be honored with a birthday celebration at the Methodist Church here Christmas day, given by friends and relatives. The third oldest Mexican war veteran is also a Hoosier—Samuel Lefler, 98, St. Paul. Cites Wife’s Earnings By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 24. Alfred Houstin, protesting against a city court ruling that he pay $5 a week to support of his wife and baby, said Mrs. Houstin made $3 a week taking in washings. This angered Judge Sam Beecher, and he fined Houstin $1 and costs and imposed a six months penal farm sentence.

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left, below, Jack Walden Jaimet, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Jaimet, 5020 Schofield St. Thirteen babies were bom in Indianapolis last Christmas. The others died, or their parents moved from addresses given in birth records and could not be located.

Poor Shooting Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 24.—John Garcia faces a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill following his arrest after pol.ee were told he beat his wife with a revolver and then emptied it by shooting at her, not a shot taking effect. Garcia told police, “Just a friendly little Christmas party.”

M’GUFFEYITES WILL GIVE PIONEER PARTY Auction of Box Lunches Is Feature for New Year’s Eve. Turning back the calendar almost a half century, the McGuffeyites of Indiana will celebrate the coming of the new year with an old-fash-ioned pioneer box supper and watch party, Dec. 31. at 9:30 p. m. in room 9, at the Denison. The party will be open to the friends of members. Though the members are planning to prepare their own luncheons, boxes will be sold for those who have forgotten just how the old settlers “did it.” The program includes dancing, brief talks, readings and a “get acquainted” hour. WORLEY GIVEN DIAMOND Superior Police Officers Present Chief With Stud. Police Chief Claude M. W viey today wore a diamond st; set in platinum on gold as a Christmas gift from superior police officers. Lieut. Fred Drinkut gave Worley the gift after captains, lieutenants and sergeants gathered in his office. “For the first time in years any policeman, regardless of rank, can go in the chief’s office and discuss his work. This we appreciate,” Drinkut told Worley. Municipal Judge Paul Wetter gave newspaper men boxes of candy. VACATION IS PRESENT Winkler, Head of Dry Forces, Gives Girls Time Off for Holidays. Girls employed in the office of George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator, were given a Christmas present in the form of a vacation today. Late Friday a telegram was received from Winkler, in Chicago conferring with E. C. Yellowley, prohibition administrator, authorizing the holiday. Winkler was given a watch by dry agents and clerks before his departure. Presents Wood for Gavel Bu Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Dec. 24. —A gavel for use by the Whitley County Historical Society is to be made from a piece of walnut wood from the Wartburg seminary building. The wood was presented to the society by John R. Beeching. The seminary, the county’s first institution of higher learning, was opened in 1854. Police Dog Turns Killer Bu Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 24.—A huge German police dog, which turned killer when its wolf blood became dominant, has been slain by Deputy Sheriff Paul Ashley after killing several head of hogs and other livestock in southwestern Jay County.

PRISONERS TO GET SHARE OF YULETIDE JOY Feasts and Programs Will Bring Cheer to Inmates of Institutions. \ State and county penal institutions and the infirmary will hold their annual Christmas feasts Sunday, with special church services and musical programs. Most of the places already are flooded with gifts and more are coming in hourly. Sheriff Omer Hawkins has ordered a 200-pound pork shoulder roast for County Jail prisoners, a barrel of apples, and a crate of cranberries. There will be mashed potatoes and gravy and each of the 200 prisoners will get a pound of pork. Mr. and Mrs. William P. Knode of Wheeler Mission, who have conducted Christmas services at the jail for the last twenty years, will have charge of the program to precede the dinner. There will be carols and orchestra music. Employes to Get Gold Sheriff Hawkins will present his thirty-two deputies and other employes with $5 gold pieces. Chicken, dressing, sweet and Irish potatoes, creamed peas, pickles, jam, cherry and mince pies are on the menu arranged by Miss Margaret M. Elliott, superintendent of the Women’s Prison. The Rev. Louis Brown or St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will conduct service and there will be special music. Each of the 197 prisoners has been well remembered with gifts, Miss Elliott reports. Infirmary to Have Trees Superintendent J. V. Carter of the infirmary has arranged two Christmas trees, one for the men and one for the women inmates. There will be individual packages of apples, oranges, nuts and candy for 370. The dinner menu is chicken, oyster dressiing, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, dumplings and cranberries. Sunday afternoon there will be special services. Police Chief Clauae M. Worley announced no special Christmas program for the city prison, but visitors and approved gifts will be allowed. HELPS STRANDED MAN Safety Board Secretary Gives Spaniard Trip to Chicago. Claude C. McCoy, safety board secretary, today played the Samaritan role to Richard Zaldiver, young Spaniard, who was stranded here. McCoy secured transportation to Chicago from the Wheeler City Mission and gave the youth “pocket change.” He had a friend in Chicago who promised to give him work.

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POSTOFFICE HANDLES BRANDY FRUIT CAKES Many From England, Scotland Come For Indianapolis Citizens. Christmas will not be as cheerless as Andy Volstead intended it in many Indianapolis homes this year, due to thoughtfulness of friends in foreign countries. Several hundred old-fashioned Christmas fruit cakes, with all the pre-Volstead ingredients, have been received through the Indianapolis postoffice. These cakes, made, for the most part, in England and Scotland, contain brandy. “I guess Europeans are not as hard hearted as they are pictured,” a tired postal worker said. "People in the old countries don’t see how we thirsty Americans can make good fruit cakes without brandy. They do their best to relieve the situation.”

Oh, Heck! By Times Special , HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 24. Mrs. Dorothy Hecht, suing Mack Hecht in Superior Court here asked for SI,OOO alimony, but all she got was a divorce. She said Mack showed too much interest in other women. They lived together less than a month.

REMAND WARDEN’S SUIT The Supreme Court Friday granted James A. Durham, fish and game warden, anew trial on a suit by Charles Long on which Long won a S7OO verdict in Kosciusko Circuit Court. Durham shot Long on the Little Tippecanoe Lake in 1925, when Long resisted arrest on a charge of using a seine, he contends.

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‘NO FIREWORKS' ON PROGRAM OF DRYSFORI92B Sound and Business-Like Methods of Enforcement Pledged by Lowman. By JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Deo. 24.—The Government’s prohibition program for 1928 will be “sound, businesslike law enforcement, without spectacular fireworks,” Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman announced today. “Prohibtion will be enforced next year by the same method now used—Diligent, conscientious work without ‘campaigns’ or ‘drives,’" Lowman said. “The present system of enforcing the law needs another year, at least, for a test before there are suggestions to change the method.” Difficult Problems Faced Summing up the prohibition situation for 1927, Lowman said that, in the last analysis, success or failure of enforcement operations i* measured by the public opinion. “States having no local law enforcement codes, such as New York, Maryland and Montana, piesent serious problems and the Federal officers have difficulty keeping ahead of bootleggers,” he said! “In many districts, however, local officers are backing Government authorities, and real progress has been made during the year. With local cooperation, the present dry machine can do an efficient Job.” Needs Public’s Aid Lowman said the Government desires to win public opinion to support of the prohibition law, for with only 3,000 dry agents the country can not be made arid without public support. He said the outstanding achievement of prohibition during 1927 was creation of a prohibition bureau with a commissioner in charge and an arrangement for prohibition, customs and coast guard to work in harmony. 3 PAROLED BY JACKSON State Farm Convicts to Spend Christmas at Home. Governor Ed Jackson played Santa Claus today to three prisoners at the Indiana Stote Farm. These were paroled so that they could spend Christmas with their families: Raymond Surber, convicted In the Marion County court Jan. 7, of robbery and sentenced to eighteen months; Clarence E. Matlock, convicted in the Marion County court, Oct. 25, of driving while under the influence of liquor and sentenced to ninety days end fined $200; and Paul Pursley, convicted in the Vermillion County court of burglary, and sentenced to four months and a $25 fine.