Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1928 — Page 3

NOV. 1, 1928

STATE 0. K, IS GIVEN SWITCH OF BUS LINES Greyhound Route Is Given Right to Operate to ' Louisville. Greyhound bus lines were granted permission by the Public Service commission Wednesday to take over one run daily of the Interstate Public Service Company bus lines operating between Indianapolis and Louisville. The Interstate will continue to operate two runs, making the present total of three trips daily remain the same. The Greyhound lines already operate between Indianapolis and Chicago. Prom Louisville they are to extend the lines to the gulf of Florida. The new order will permit through trips to be made, it was pointed out. The plan proposed by Commissioner Harvey Harmon for commission study of the proposed $70,000,000 utility merger was approved. Four extra engineers and four accountants will be put on the work, it was decided. Affects 250 Towns The merger involves the T. H., I. & E., Central Indiana Power Company, an dotber properties into an Insull concern affecting more than 250 Indiana towns and cities. Rensselaer Water Company was granted permission to charge an additional 5 cents for 1,000 gallons on overdue accounts. Discontinuance of the Crescent Bus Line Company route between Cynthiana and Poseyville, seven miles, was allowed. The Mohawk Motor express was denied permission to operate a freight line between Indiunapolis and South Bend. Union Traction Company bus lines in Muncie were extended. Bus Service Approved Interstate passenger bus service to be operated by the Pony Express Lines, Inc., between Detroit and Indianapolis was approved. The lines will operate over state roads 112, 12, 20 and 41. Sale of a bus certificate for a line between Ft. Wayne and Richmond was approved. The line belonged to King Brothers and was bought by the A. B. C. Coach line. James Powell, Princeton, was granted permission to operate a bus line between Evansville and Oakland City, through Somerville, Mackey, Buckskin and McCutcheonville. PROUP 1 m Spasmodic Croup fa frequmth roheved by one application ofVICKS CW J 7 hfilUon !

%.nn(r]|]p /^uaranteld , \ wmk) w<v^ ™ iUv ferf v * 6 *^ y BADIO^^)) 18^ 1929 “ALL ELECTRIC” SET 'fjfljffl R—^t— OOW UB Radio AA AA Mi a * A a I AM All AIA M ala Add Radio Cabinets with Built-in Speakers. Sj-TI 22 E. WASH. SV3!r3l3 E. WASH. ST. - ***~ ft

Gas Station Displaces Cabin, Older Than State

n Wlflfi iHlfiiSftffr • A s ;iSxiw';<

The log cabin, 4723 West Washington street, believed to have been erected before 1816, recently torn down to make way for a filling station.

Until recently Ben Davis boasted of a log cabiri older than the state of Indiana. The oldest pioneers remembered that the cabin was standing at 423 West Washington street when they were children and remembered their grandparents told of it in their childhood days. Wood Thompson, Ben Davis, recalled that the cabin was standing in 1865. “I have heard my parents

ATTACKER IS FOILED Girl, 11, Chased Through House by Man. Quick tanking and action by 11-year-old Mary Hurt, 1106 English avenue, saved her from an attempted attack by a middle-aged man this noon. The child w r as alone at home when the man knocked at the door and said he was selling perfume. After asking some questions about her family, he attempted to enter. The girl slammed the door, but his foot kept it open and he chased her through the house. Mary rushed into the bathroom and locked the door. She then jumped out of the bathroom window. The man ran down the alley. PLAN gTo. P. MEETINGS County and State Candidates to Address Rallies. State and county candidates will address neighborhood Republican meetings throughout the city tonight. The meeting places: 2533 Boulevard place, 1847 College avenue, 945 East Market street, 1210 Cornell avenue, 1540 Park avenue, 945 West Twenty-sixth street, 1727 Columbia avenue, New Augusta Community hall, Sixty-third street and Ashland avenue. 1722 Ludlow avenue, Shelby street and English avenue, 1546 Park avenue, Garfield Park Baptist church at Perkins street and Cottage avenue, 2222 Pleasant street, 12 North Addison street, Nineteenth street and Martindale avenue, 1906 South Keystone avenue, Earhart and Orange streets and Sunshine Gardens.

and grandparents tell that it was built before the state wa.-> admitted to the union in 1816.” George Pence, 6103 West Washington street, was born in the cabin Jan. 29, 1869. The cabin site originally was on a tract of 240 acres owned by his grandfather, John Pence Sr. For the last sixteen years the structure was owned by the late John A. Homburgher.

ALLEN BURIAL FIXED Body of Pioneer Taken to Greenup for Burial. The body of Thomas Warren Allen, 58, who died at his home, 3854 Cornelius avenue. Tuesday . night birthplace today for funeral services and burial Friday. Mr. Allen had been a resident of Indianapolis for twenty-six years He was in-the railway mail service for thirty-six years. He was active in lodge organization as a member of North Park Lodge No. 46. F. and A. M., Scottish Rite, and Clifton Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He also was a member of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Mr. Allen was treasurer of the General Memorial association, past patron of North Park Lodge, Order of Eastern Star, past division commander of the Sons of Veterans anu past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. He is survived by the widow and three sons. Lawrence H. of Chicago, Herbert W. Allen of Denver, Colo., and Leßoy E., Indianapolis. ESCAPES COPS BY LEAP Man Jumps from Second Story of Home During Raid. Leaping from the second story window' of his home, George Sluder, 647% Virginia avenue, escaped from Sergt. Dan Cummings and a police squad who raided the house Wednesday night. The raiding squad found a pint of whisky and arrested five mer. in the place on vagrancy charges. When they entered, Sluder dashed to a rear window and leaped out. Apparently unhurt, he fled.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BACKS ATHEIST SON IN LONG HUNGERSTRIKE Mother Gives Sanction After Visit to Jail: He Is on His Fifteenth Day. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. I. Charles Smith, atheist leader, who was arrested and convicted here fifteen days ago on charges of distributing atheist literature “calculated to incite a riot,” today w T as released after an unknown man paid the remaining $11.40 of a $26.40 fine he was serving out in protect of the Arkansas anti-athe-ist law. Hu United Pres* LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. I. Charles Smith, New York atheist, continued with new' determination his hunger strike today in protest against Arkansas’ anti-atheist law. His mother sanctioned the action after she saw “how well he is standing the punishment." Mrs. Laura Sherman, Tecumseh, Okla., Smith's mother, came to see how’ her son is standing his strike. Several days ago, when he was removed from the city jail to the hospital, Mrs. Sherman had asked him to abandon his self-imposed fast. “I was worred about him,” she said, “but I feel better now, since I have seen how well he is standing the punishment.” Smith claims he will continue his hunger strike the full time of his 25 days prison sentence, imposed in lieu of paying a $25 fine, for distributing atheistic literature. Today is his fifteenth day without food. Mrs. Sherman told of the earlier ambitions she held for Smith. Twenty years ago she wished to have become a Methodist minister But the son had become an aihiest and the mother later joined him in his beliefs. "He is my boy; I believe in him." she said. The mother appears much younger than her 41 year old son. In contrast to his snow-white hair, she has brown hair only slightly tinged with gray. Like her son, ,she u a native Arkansan, and lived in Arkansas until after the birth of Charles. Two other sons reside in Oklahoma and a daughter in Texas. CATCH ALLEGED THIEF Motor Cops Capture Negro After Chase of One Mile. After a chase of more than a mile Motorcycle Officers John Willis and Ary Powers Wednesday captured a Negro for w r hom police have been searching many weeks. The Negro is William Kittrel. 25, of 917 Pomeroy street. He has been sought in connection with a series of thefts of window shades from vacant houses.

Honored

/ ' A --A /***\ '

Dr. Burton D. Myers, dean of the Indiana university school of medicine, who was elected president of the Association of Medical Colleges at the convention here ASK BUDGET HIKE SIOO,OOO Increase Filed for State Reformatory. • Budgets asking $1,004,720 for the Indiana state reformary and sl.877,000 annually for Purdue university were filed with the state board of accounts today. The reformatory budget will be $502,360 annually, as compared with $408,202.10 this year. An extensive building program is anticipated. It includes a $40,000 trade school, $45,000 dormitory, $35,000 officers’ quarters, $3,500 bakery overn. $7,000 yard office, $38,000 power plant equipment, $2,000 w’alks, SB,OOO bridge,* and $28,000 for residences. Special attention is given to the agricultural experiment station, equipment for which is needed in the Purdue budget. The 1927-28 budget at the school was $2,051,356.33. Doctors Meet at Plymouth Bji Timex special PLYMOUTH. Ind., Nov. I—Attendance of seventy-five was registered here today for the annual meeting of the Thirteenth District Medical Society. The district includes Marshall. St. Joseph. Kosciusko, Fulton, Starke, Elkhart and La Porte counties. PMMRINtI NOW PLAYING AT THE LYRIC _

CITY COLLEGES TO LET PUPILS CAST BALLOTS Dr. Aley Urges Students to Exercise Citizenship on Tuesday. Students of all Indianapolis colleges who desire to vote will be excused from classes Tuesday, heads cf the various institutions announced today. “We not only are releasing students from classes, but I urge all of voting age to cast their ballots as a patriotic duty,” said Dr. Robert Aley, president of Butler university. The students of all the colleges are to be back at classes Wednesday morning. The Indiana School of Dentistry

RuuKO' Another Your Big Day of 25 W Street Opportunity Super Valuesl Opposite The Newt to Savel Continued on Friday — Our Sensational TWO-for-ONE Dress Sale So Many People Wanted Us to Hold This Sale Over Friday, We Couldn’t Refuse—2oo New Dresses Added 2 Bring a friend to share in these values if you don’t need . TWO dreses. Misses' Sizes Regular Sizes, Large Sizes Canton Crepes, Satins, Velvets, f |p Prints, Romaines mm —Ts you didn’t attend this big W JMflKKSfelk. “TWO-for-ONE’’ event yester- W's day—you still have a chance to f save—Just think TWO dresses I for ONE price and you save as M n much as spend. Irresistible * vj styles—just a step ahead of the mode. Come early tomorrow. m Single Dresses $13.75

1,000 PAIR hose “* $1 LIMIT 5 PAIRS TO CUSTOMER T

is dismissing classes for the day, operating only the clinic for those students who elect to remain and work or are ineligible to vote. Butler, Indiana Central college, Teachers college of Indianapolis, Indiana School of Medicine and the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy are merely excusing those who express the desire to go home. The absentee voters law having been repealed by the last legislature it is necessary for all Indiana students not bona-fide residents of college towns to vote in the places where they are legally resident. It was pointed out, however, in a ruling today by W. W. Spencer and Fred C. Gause, state election commissioners, that election officials may exercise legal discretion as to which students are bona-fide residents of college towns. “If the student in good faith considers the college town his residence and does not have a home elsewhere to which he expects to return when out of school, then there is no reason why he may not vote where the school is located," ruled Spencer and Gause. “In determining this question it is material to consider whether the 1 student is under parental control

PAGE 3

and dependent upon his parents lor support, or whether he is self-sup-porting; whether he still considers the home of his parents his home, or considers the colleeg town his home." Practically all Indiana colleges and universities are expected to release students Tuesday for voting. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 persons of voting age are enrolled in Hoosier colleges. SOCIETY PLANS PARTY Shortridge Honor Club Arranges Affair for Saturday. The Shortridge High School Honor Society will give a party Saturday afternoon at the home of Dorothy Leedy, 5206 Grandview' drive. The guests will meet at Thirty-eighth street and Central avenue at 1:45 p. m. The following committees will be in charge: Program, John Millet, chairman; John Kitchen, Charlotte Bruce and Marion Jenckes. Refreshments: Elsie Schmidt, chairman; Dorothy Leedy and Jeannette La Saulnier. Transportation: Harold Dunkel, chairman; John Elam, John Pedigo and John Millet.