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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
MORE NORTH
FIRE PROTECTION
Chief Seeks Additional Money
for Men and Equipment.

Improved fire protection for the
district north of Thirty Eighth St,
including newly annexed Broad Rip.
pie and for Brightwood, is planned by
the board of public safety after Jan.
/, Fire Chief John J. OBnen said
today.
O'Brien is seeking a s35 900 addi-
tional appropriation from tho city
council early in January so ne can
add twenty men to the fire force.
With these men the temporary com.
pany Of eight men at Brightwood
will be increased to sixteen and the
Brightwood company will he aug
mented with four more men. Kelly
ladder trucks, now held in reserve,
VIII be assigned to these two stations
when the new mon are available.
Ladder trucks are needed in both
these sections. In Brightwood there
are a number Of factories, schools and
large buildings which ought to have
better ladder protection, while in
Broad Ripple serious loss Of lifa might
result in fire at the school build
ing with present fire fighting facilities.
The nearest ladder truck IS at Twenty
Fourth St There ought to be a
ladder truck in Broad Ripple, not
only for protection of the school
building, but also all the ter
ritory north of Thirty Eighth St,
OBrien said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
DEATH CONES To
AGED POLICEMAN
Retired Veteran, Aged 90, Noted
for Long Beard.

Michael Raftery, Sr., go, Of sos
Prospect St. the oldest retired mem
Der of the Indianapolis police depart
ment. died suddenly at his home last
night as a result OF an attack OF heart
trouble. Raftery had been in good
health until two days before his death.
Mr.. Raftery was born in GaIway
County, Ireland. When about 80 years
old he went to Canada. He later
came to Indianapolis and was en-
ployed at the old Woodburn -Sorven
Wheel Works on S. Illinois St. On
May TO- 1874, Raftery was appointed
a member OF the Indianapolis police
department and served until Jan. 3,
1912. During the thirty y-seven years
of service as a patrolman he was as
signed to w. Washington st. and
to the district near the Union Depot
He was famous because of his long
beard. At one time the board of
safety gave an order that no member
Of the police department could wear
beard, but they made an exception
OF RafteTy.
Raftery is survived by two sons,
Michael Jt., and Thomas A. Raftery,
both of Indianapolis; two daughters,
Miss Mayme I. Raftery and Mrs.
Victor Deffo, both Of this city. He is
also survived by eleven grand chill
dren. Funeral arrangements havd
not been completed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
MAY POSTPONE
DAUGHERTY CASE
Impeachment Proceedings to
Have Started Monday.
By United Press

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.-Hearings
in the impeachment proceedings
brought against Attorney General
DGugherty by Representative Kellar.
Minnesota, Republican. may be post
poned indefinitely, 1t was indicated to-
day by chairman Volstead, Minnesota,
Of the House judiciary Committee.
The hearings were to have started
Monday, but Kellar in a communion
ton making fourteen charges against
the Attorney General. has informed
the committee he needs more time to
prepare his case.
These fourteen counts presented by
Keller include:
1. Daugherty's alleged failure to
prosecute war frauds.
,. His appointment of, William J.
Burns as chief of the United States
Bureau of Investigation.
8. His continuing submission to the
influence Of corporations and indlvi-
duals of great wealth and power in
the administration of justice and the
deliberate conniving at the looting Of
the Teapot Dome oil leases in Wyom-
ing"
I. The issuance Of the Chicago in
junction against the striking railroad
shopmen.
5. The alleged failure to prosecute
twenty-three antitrust cases urged by
the Federal trade commission.
Other counts include the dismissal
of Mai. o. o. Watts, who had been
engaged in investigating war fraud
cases; alleged failure to enforce the
safety laws. and alleged illegal. acts
I'm connection with the Charles E.
Morse case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
FARM BLOC HEAD
DEFENDS TARIFF.
Representative Dickinson Says
Country Is Benefited.

I'VE contend that the efforts of the
friends Of agriculture are already
bringing about some economical re
forms" declared Congressman L J.
Dickinson. Of Iowa, leader Of the
Farm Bloc in the House Of Rep
resentatves. in a speech before the
Indiana Federation Of Farmers As
sociations this afternoon at the Clay
pool Hotel Mr.. Dickinson defended
the protective tariff.
"Our markets are clarified of many
manipulators under the Grain Flu
lures and Packer Control Actz, oWr
Federal Reserve Board has shown
more consideration for your interest,
our Farm Land Bank has been suf
fiCiently successful to warrant the
continuance OF its existence" he de-
Clared. If such accomplishments
warrant our efforts in behalf of farm
ing interests in the past, the future
is even more promising for our con-
tinued efforts.
I'VE are contending for a public
warehouse act, which will give ample
storage facilities for grains. so the
selling season can be spread over the
entire year" Mr.. Dickinson said.
Reports of activities of the various
branches of farmers organizations
were given today.
The report of G. r. George, direc-
tor Of the dairy and produce market
ing bureau, showed that the coopera-
ton Of farmers in Muncie, where the
bureau has been tried out. has saved
the producers $4,000 in the past
month.
New officers elected are William H
Settle. Petroleum, president; Scott
Meik, Shelbyville, first vice president:
Ray L. Bradley, Ladoga, second vice
president: j. J. Brown, Monon, and
William Senior, BrookviIle, directors.
They will be formally installed Jan. l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
Gas Quality Is
LOzCer- Elliott

While the Citizens Gas Company
is trying in Federal Court to get a
permanent rate Of $1.20 or $1.25 for
gas. the quality Of gas produced is
steadily dropping, City Civil En-
gineer John L. Elliott reported to-
day.
"As long as we had summer
weather the gas tested from $50
to 600 British thermal units" said
Elliott, but as soon as it got a
little cool, down it goes"
The city tests, taken regularly in
the city hall chemical laboratory,
show gas produced by the Langs-
dale plant on Nov. 90 tested 573 and
by the Prospect plant, SIC. Friday
the Langedaie gas showed 500 and
Prospect, 5G6.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
Mayor Demands
Auto Labeine

They're going to paint that word
indianapolis on those cars If I have
to so over to that garage with a crow.
bar and make EN-" declared Mayor
Shank today.
The mayor said he discovered sew
era city cars have been repainted
and the city marking left off OF them.
Early in the year he decreed "Indi-
annapolis" should be painted across the
back Of every city automobile, except
those used by the police, in letters
four inches high.
IN going over to the garage and
put a lock and chain on every dag
gone one of those cars and not let 'em
out until they're marked and 1 don't
care who it is drives EN-"
The mayor compelled marking of
the cars to break up joy riding in
them.
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emulation, but the delay has been so
long in some cases it will be impos-
sible for contractors to lay concrete
due to cold weather, he said.
With the water company there is
not so much complaint, Elliott said,
because it has laid more mains than
its contract with the city called for.
Delays in sewer construction are
holding up several alleys.
Streets Affected
Among streets and alleys which
Elliott fears will be left torn up until
next spring and the reasons given
by him are the following:
Cornelius Ave, Forty-Second St. to
Berkeley Rd., delayed on grading con-
tract; Bosart Ave, Michigan to Tenth
SITS, gas mains and connections not
in; Forty-Fourth ST., Boulevard P1.
TO Sunset Ave, water mains not in;
Fortieth St, Capitol Ave. to Boule-
ward PI., water mains not In; Ray
mond St, Shelby st. to State Ave.
gaF mains not in; first alley east OF
Oxford St, North St. to the first alley
north, waiting on sewer; first alley
east of Parker Ave, North ST. to
point 7S3 feet north. waiting on sewer.
Fearing they would be left torn up
through the winter, Elliott ordered
contractors not to start work on sew
eral improvements until spring.
Among these We're:
lie Grand Ave, Maple to Draper
Sts., F'ortieth St, Boulevard Place to
Conser Ave, Cedar St, Fletcher Ave.
to Shelby St, first alley west Of Ill
nois St, from first alley north OF
Thirtieth ST, to Thirty-Third ST., FIJI
teenth St, Columbia to Arsenal AYES,
Wright St, Prospect to Sanders Sts.,
Newton Ave, Rural to La Sale Sts.,
and Spruce St, English Ave. to Pros
pect St.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
UTILITIES BLAMED FOR HOLDING
UP STREET WORK DURING WINTER
Los Angeles Decides Jail Sentence Is
only Cure for Reckless AUTO Sbeede1S
Declare War

A prison term for persons who
operate motor vehicles while un-
der the influence Of liquor.
Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth Of
city court. in a conference with
Chief of Police Herman f. Rik-
hoff and Mayor Shank, declared
he favored a law providing such
a penalty.
New Jersey, New York and
Michigan have such laws, and
they have a good effect, Wilmeth
said.
The three officials declared war
on speeders, Rlkhoff announcing
after the conference that police
will arrest persons driving over
twenty-five miles an hour hereaft-
er. Arrests have not been made
until thirty miles an hour was OBJ
served heretofore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
j. 8. TRIALS SET
FOR NEXT MONTH
Federal Grand Jury Will Make
Report Before Christmas.

Trial of criminal cases in Federal
Court will begin about the middle OF
January, Homer Elliott, United
States district attorney. said today.
The grand jury, which has been in
session since Nov. s, will make it's
report to Judge Albert B. Anderson
2 few days before Christmas, he said.
Investigation OF liquor law viola
tions in Lake County will occupy
the attention Of the grand jury after
Dec. 8. Federal officials said that
about $50 residents of Gary and
vicinity have been subpoenaed and it
is believed that it will take a week
or more to examine them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02

While seven more cases of diph-
liberia were reported to the city health
department in the first eleven months
of 1922 than in the same period Of
1921, fifteen less people died, records
showed today.
Health officers said they thought
the vigorous fight against the epf-
demic with an augmented school
nurse and doctor staff was in a great
degree responsible for saving the flf-
teen lives.
Meanwhile the epidemic continued
to be serious. In November there
were 397 new cases and twenty deaths
as compared with 232 cases ana 1S
deaths in the same month last year.
Officials pointed out that while there
were more cases and deaths last
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02

trians passing metropolitan key cor
ners than In any city in the world;
IT'S, 900 machines in the main business
district per day. and impauence at
time lost due to all these compli-
cations.
"Adominishing and finiug the Yiola-
tor Is the bunk declares Capt.
James Mcdowell. head Of the police
traffic bureau. THE only thing he
respects is the speed cop and u
yawning cell"
Plan Stringent Laws
In addition to immediate drastic
measures. and the employment of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
Reason

~ united Press
WASHINGTON. Dec 2.-The
reason for so many automobile ac-
cidents is that people have never
adjusted themselves to the auto
age. in the opinion of President
Harding. He witnessed a safety
week parade. which passed the
White House just after he read
in the newspapers that there were
sixteen accidents here Thanksgiv.
ing day--a record for the year.
His conclusion is that the auto
mobile has transformed city traf-
fic and created a new menace
which people have not yet adapt.
ed themselves to.
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month than in November, 1921, the
ratio OF deaths to cases was far less.
The disease also was hitting an older
and more vulnerable class this year,
it was said.
In the first eleven months of 1922
there were 1,121 cases and fifty-six
deaths, while in the same portion of
1921 there were Lila cases and
seventy-one deaths.
The health department has eight
more school nurses in the field this
year than last. School doctors were
put on full-time basis and 4 new
department of child hygiene, with six
nurses working chiefly among chill
dren OF pre-school age, established.
The department has spent more
than $4,000 to administer anh-toxin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
Censorship Job
Easy for Cops

AS relays of cops visiting the
Broadway Theater as censors have
found nothing Objectionable except
damn" Mayor Shank today said he
was not going to pay any further at
tention to complaints of the church
federation that the burlesque shows
are immoral unless federation Of
ficials will file affidavits.
IF they'll do that Wen make
arrests. Otherwise we WON'T" said
Shank
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02

more traffic officers. Los Angeles will
go to the next State Legislature de-
manding, in conformity with the Ma
tional Traffic Officers Association
program:
/. Universal traffic regulations for
all States, lack Of which is now held
accountable for good many accidents
by tourists.
2. The same laws and penalties for
all intrastate communities.
g. Adequate and standard examina-
tion of drivers.
l. No drivers license issued to any
one under 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
Drastic Precautions Taken as
Letters Threatening Life
Are Received.
TIGER IS UNCONCERNED
ST. Louis Halls Frenchman
With Uproarious Welcome,
Despite Concern.
BIZ United Press

BIZ JniE6Q PFeSS
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. g.
{ .borate precautions to protect
former Premier Georges Glenn
enceau of France were taken
throughout st. Louis today as
the city hailed the Tiger.
More than a thousand police
and troops patrOlled streets along
the route of the parade which escorted
the French statesman, from the
Pulitzer home at Clayton to the
Odeon, where he delivered his fourth
formal American address.
Uproarious welcome, restrained
Clemenceau's visit because he request
ed a day off, was turned loose with
ali OF the city's traditional enthusi-
asm behind it. despite threats against
the Tiger.
More Threatening Letters
More threatening letters, one giving
the impression it came from an organ
ization resembling an attack on the
late Theodore Roosevelt, caused the
committee OF welcome to take the
most drastic steps of precaution.
All night long patrols of police,
armed with sawed-off shotguns, paced
the lawns beneath the Tigers window.
Early today, as preparations for the
long parade which escorted Clemen-
ceau to the Odeon got under way, ev-
cry one who approached the Pulitzer
residence was closely questioned An
escort of mounted police arrived be-
fore dawn.
All this made little difference to the
Tiger. Having postponed prepara-
rs Of what he feels may prove his
I st important address until the last
moment, he wrote his notes and
planned the last plea for world peace
and France he will make this week.
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and the n-anti-toxin immunization
to approximately 5000 school chill
dren. The law requires the city to
furnish anti-toxin in case parents are
unable to pay for IL, while the toxin
anti-toxin immunizasion has been ad-
ministered free wherever the depart
ment could gain consent of parents.
Children are given the Schick test,
which discloses whether they are
subject to diphtheria If they are,
the toxin-anti-toxin injection renders
them safe from the infection without
any danger of harm to the child
from the process, health officers say.
Because of the widespread immuni-
Zation, dozens Of children will live
through future epidemics who other
wise would have died. the city doctors
say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS
SHOW LARGE INCREASE
Business Men Get Credit for Jump in
Use of Parcels Post

Business Men Get Credit for Jump in
Use of Parcels Post.
The largest increase in postofice
receipts for any month in the present
year over a corresponding month of
1921 was recorded for November, 1922,
according to Robert H. Bryson, post
master.
Mr.. Bryson said he believed this
was due to the efforts of business men
in getting an increasing number of
small orders which effected an in
crease in the amount of parcels post
sent through the mails.
The total receipts for the month
were $2S6,433.76, as compared with
$238. .338.71 for November. 1921. This
showed an increase Of $4S. S.095.05,
amounting TO 20.17 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES
HOLD EX-KLAN CHIEF

Emmett Chesser, Newspaper Man,
Arrested With Woman.
By United Press
HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 2.-Emmett
Chesser, former assistant for an of
ficial of the Ku-Klux Klan at New
Orleans, and a woman said to be
the wife of the official, were held
here today for investigation by Fed
eral authorities.
Chesser newspaper man, has
been missing from New Orleans some
time, officials here said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
THE WEATHER

Colder weather centers on the Great
Lakes region and the Mississippi Val
ley. while higher temperatures are
advancing from the Canadian North
west southwark to the middle Rocky
Mountains.
Rains and SHOWS have fallen over
ch Of the region west of the divide
and rains in a belt from Arkansas
to the Alleghenies and thence north
eastward to New England.
The lowest temperature this morn
ing was "A degrees. reported at Bis
mErck, " D.; Dodge City. Kan, and
St Paul. MINI. The maximum tenn
perature was 20 degrees at San An
tonic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
FIRE WIPES OUT
NEGRO SECTION
North Carolina Town Swept by
MiIIion-DolIar Blaze.
BU United Press

81 ntte1 Press
NEWBERN, ". c.. Dec. -Four
hundred families here were homeless
today as authorities started an investi-
cation of the fire which yesterday
caused damage estimated at more
than a million dollars.
The fire started in the lumber mill
of the John L. Roper Lumber Com
pany and spread rapidly, famed by
high winds. Practically the entire
negro section of the city was wiped
out and more than a hundred white
families were also made homeless by
the cOnf1agration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
AUTO STRIKES MAN

Wayne Starks, 1924 z. Minnesota
St., suffered cuts and bruises about
the legs and body today when an
automobile beside which he was
standing while putting air in a tire,
was struck by a car driven by Mrs.
Bessie Earhart, 1869 n. Illinois St. No
arrests were made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
PONZI NOT GUILTY
OF LARCENY CHARGE

"Bushel Basket Millionaire" Acts as
Own Counsel at Trial.
By United Press
BOSTON, Dec. 2.-Charles Pon1,
"bushel basket millionaire" was found
not guilty in Superior Court here last
midnight Of charges of larceny and
conspiracy to steal.
Ten indictments charging larceny
still stand against the dapper little
man who acted as his own counsel in
the trial just ended. Attorney Gen
e1al Weston refused to say whether
the counts will be pressed.
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MAN DISAPPEARS

Luke Roberts, go, Of 215 S. David
son St, was reported today as missing
from his home since early yesterday
Roberts is five feet five inches in
height and weighs 125 pounds When
he left home he wore Q blue suit and
a black soft hat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
AGAIN QUESTION WOMAN
IN ALERT HOLD-UP CASE
Detectives Seek Whereabouts of $780,
900 i'm Bonds

Detectives today again questioned
Mrs. Mamie Isley. held in connection
with the operations of a gang of al
legged bandits. The police were seek
ing to determine what had been done
with $4,000 in bonds stolen from the
Alert State Bank.
Detectives AIullin, ATcMurtry and
McGlenn and F. J. Miller of the Pin
kerton Detective Agency will go to
Greensburg Monday to testify before
the grand jury concerning the Alert
hank robbery.
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WOMAN ATTEMPTS LEE

bN INfIEu Y EfCB
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Olivia M.
P. Stone, who was acquitted of the
murder Of Ellis G. Kincaid. wealthy
clubman Of Cincinnati, made an un-
successful attempt to take her life in
her hotel room here Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
BOMB EXPLOSION
THREATENS LABORERS
Police Probe Blast in st. Louis Rail
road Shops.

BIZ United Press
ST. LOUIS. Mo, Dec. 2.-Police
today were probing the bomb ex-
plosion which last night threatened
the lives of $50 workmen in the shops
Of the Missouri Pacific Railroad here.
shattered windows throughout the
building, and resulted in serious in
jury to Clarence Ellington, black
smith.
The bomb, which exploded just as
employees were laying down their
tools for the day, shook the entire
group Of buildings in the yards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
BY JACK JUNGMEYER
NEA Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES. Dec. 2.-Moral
suasion is futile in tanning the ter.
rorist on tires.
Jail alone will check increasing
motor mortality.
With this conviction and this
remedy, Los Angeles, first Of large
American cities in traffic deaths per
100 900 population, has initiated a
campaign Of imprisonment for speed.
ing and careless drivers. Penalties
range from one to 100 days, and
par with men.
During the first week the Jail was
jammed. with a corresponding de-
crease in the disregard for life and
property. Officials. at the end or
patience with "don't-glve a darn"
autoists, are determined to keep up
drastic action until fear shall have
accom- plished what pleading failed to
do.
Auto accidents have mounted
alarmingly il Los Angeles, congested
by almost one-third Of CALIFORNIA; 8
machines and thousands of tourists
autos. Fatalities. more than one
third greater than last year.
threatened during the approaching
holiday season TO number at least one
a day. The total number OF accidents
surpassed last years by more than
10000. The consistent monthly in.
crease was practically ca1culable.
Accident Causes
Factors in the problem here are.
Narrow downtown streets and com.
paratively few radial boulevards to
the residential districts; moro pedes-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-02
DEMOCRATS SPEND
$114,344.55 IN ELECTION
Final Expense Report Filed in Con
gress Today.
BU United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Total ex-
penditures Of the Democratic national
committee in the recent political cam
paign amounted only S114. 4.344.56, &C
cording to a final report filed today
with the clerk in the House.
The committee listed contributions
totalling $120,O7488 showing a bal
ance Of nearly $4,000 after the cam
paign was over.
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Some Thoroughfares Will Be Blocked Until
Next Spring Because of Failure to
Lay Gas and Water Mains
COLD WEATHER STOPS PAVING WORK
City Engineer Says Gas Company Failed to
Employ Sufficient Number of Men
Asserts City Is Helpless.

Streets under for permanent Improvement several
parts the city may be because gas and
mains have not been laid City Engineer John Elliott said today
The city engineering department has had trouble with the C
Gas Company throughout the paving the company
failing enough speed the work. according the
engineer At time the company holding up twenty-five
contracts. Main gangs have cleaned up much of this