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The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
RATE CASE NEARING
CRISIS AS PARTIES
ANTICIPATE FINALE
Reconciliation of Varying
Valuations to Govern Com
missions Action.

Attorneys continued today to pre-
pare for the closing of the Indianapo-
lis Water Company rate case before
the public service commission. The
hearing will reopen Tuesday morning
and on the events of the next few
DAYS may depend future rates to be
charged consumers.
The city has before the commission
its valuation theory, greatly at vari-
ance with that of the commission S
engineers and that of the company.
There is a variance of s6,000.0 900 to
81 100000 among the figures. On the
adjustment of this variation by the
commission depends the result Of the
case. If the commission agrees with
its own engineers or those Of the
company, rates may be higher. If 1t
finds with the city, rates may not be
changed or may even be reduced.
The companys attack on the city's
set-ups based almost entirely on the
company's history, will come immedi-
ately on the reopening OF the case
when cross-examination Of Benjamin
Perk, expert witness for the city, will
start
Following this cross-examination
the city will put on the stand en-
gineers who have been studying the
companys property. Following the
close of the city's case the company
may put on the stand rebuttal wit
nesses. Adjournment probably will
be taken then to permit attorneys to
prepare arguments and to file briefs.
Indications were the hearing would
last most of this week
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
HEIGHTS ADDITION
ANNEXED OC|TY
Suburban District Becomes
Part of Indianapolis.

University Heights was officially
annexed to Indianapolis following a
meeting of its officials with the city
officers in the office of Joseph L.
Hogue, city controller, today.
Members of the town board through
their treasurer, Edward G. Fischer,
turned over s1.331.SO to the general
fund of the city, representing pres
ent balances Of the town. 1t was said
University Heights was practically
debt free.
University Heights was represented
by John A. Cummings, Shelby T.
Finch and L. o. Tomey, trustees; D.
L. Eaton. clerk. and Ed. L. o. Har-
man. attorney.
The city was represented by Hogue
and James Ogden. city attorney. -
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

when 1t urged abolition Of Sunday
dancing.
Sheriff Andrew Anderson-Wen
automobiling with his family.
City Prosecutor Matthews-Raz-
zed Fritch and cold the cops to do
nothing.
The county prosecutor, after re-
tiring for the day, left his son to
talk to the press and other inquiries.
This son was no less than Roscoe
Conkling Fitch, the former North
western University freshman who
recently bounded into the limelight
with a weird and quite fictitious
confession of knowledge Of the death
OF Leighton Mount IN Evanston Ill.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
AUTO|STS BLAMED
FOR CRASHES At
TWO CROSSINGS
Local Conductor Says Motor
lists Are Getting 'AWfuIIy
Careless
Death Harvest
in Accidents

Twelve persons were killed in
weekend automobile accidents in
Indiana. Fatalities In the entire
country numbered forty-three.
Nine were killed when a train
struck an automobile at Terre
Haute.
-Four were killed three hours
earlier. when the same train
struck an automobile at High
land. Ill. ~4&
Two were killed and a third
perhaps fatally injured when a
train hit an automobile at Co
lumbus, Ind.
One was killed and four in
jured when an automobile hit a
telephone pole at Newcastle.
Four were killed on Long Is
land. at Gainesville. Ga; at
Poplar Bluffs, Mo; at Chicago;
3 at Glassboro. N. j.; 2 at Wades-
boro, N. c.; in California: 2 at
Augusta. Kan; at Detroit, at
Castletown Corners. VT. and
at Atlanta.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

labor business or work, being pres
ent at any dancing place or place of
public diversion or show or enter
tainment or the taking part in any
sport, game or play"
This same law also bans 'hugging,
kissing or the holding Of hands"
except that this shall not apply ito
the making Of mutual promises of
marriage nor to the solemnization
Of marriage"
But how" phoned a Justice of
the peace in neighboring town
ship to Fitch early Sunday, "cs Q.
tell the difference between an 4
gagement kiss and the kind sS
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
By LAWRENCE MARTIN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

United Press staff
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3OPresident Harding, who is
ousy i'll with heart complications following attack Of ptomane
poisoning at Seattle improved this morning
Hoover and Work said at 9 40 m.
After conference with physicians the Presidents entire Pa
cifc coast trip cancelled.
Secretary of Commerce the first member of the
Presidents immediate party stirring this morning.
He up before and went into the presidential
suite, where he remained for short time.
There nothing say he declared leaving the suite
All of the Presidents must come from
medical men,"
Hoover then went to the room of Secretary Work
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
HOURLY TEMPERATURE

Roscoe accepted his responsibility
with becoming dignity and an
nounced he had wired the attorney
general at Lansing for instructions.
Roscoe said he was considering
advising his father to ''let things
drop temporarily"
Mrs. Knight, who. according to
the major. had the misfortune of
having her husband lose an eye
While playing Sunday golf five years
ago, had 500 names on her anti
dancing petition.
The statute, which Ludington was
call On to observe. prohibits:
''Klaeping open shop. warehouse
or workhouse. doing any manner Of
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

Reports of two crossing accidents
In which thirteen motorists were killed
on the st. Louis division of the Penn
sylvania Railroad by the same train,
west OF Terre Hauts, Sunday, checked
over in the Office OF w. c. Downing
division superintendent here today
charged the automobile drivers were
TO blame in both Tragedies.
Train No. 30 thu New Yorker
east bound. first struck a car in which
four were killed at Highland, Ill.
Toll Of First Crash
The dead:
JOHN SEES. 20.
SERA DANKA. 80.
JOE LENGYLE, 35.
JOHN SEES JR., IA. all of Highland.
Speeding eastward at fifty miles an
hour to make up two hours lost in
caring for bodies of these victims. the
train struck another automobile bear
ing nine persons at Liggett. Ind,
eight miles west of Terre Haute.
G. G. Gilhshe, telegraph operator
in the tower at Lggett. thought to be
the only witness. said the car was
stopped on the tracks. view Of which
was obscured because OF curve. The
driver had started to, go on when the
train, pulled by two engines. struck.
In Second Disaster
The dead:
MRS. VELTA BOSTWICK, II, Dan.
Vile, Ill.
RICHARD BOSTWICK. 16, a son.
CLARENCE BOSTWICK, 13
months, son.
MAY BOSTWTCK, 10, a daughter.
CRILLA BOSTWICK, IS, a daugh.
ter.
) ELDIA BOSTWICK. 8.
MRS. ETHEL SLAVENS, 21. Terre
Haute.
LEONA SLAVENS, 3, her daughter.
RAYMOND THOMILSON, 81, Dan
Vile, effe driver.
1.-THE most terrible part of the &C.
cident was picking up the children, "
declared Charles r. Hornshu, 3430
Brentwood Ave-, conductor OF the
train. who still was greatly affected
at his home today.
1.-THE train ran three-fourths of a
Continued on Page p
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

stop Ludington's regular Sunday
fun.
A few people who ventured out
timidly in the morning, expecting
to observe all the blue statutes. soon
saw how conspicuous they were and
proceeded to violate with en-
thusiasm.
This left among the law observers
only Mayor E. M. Hellett and
County Prosecutor Fitch, whose
idea it was to confine all local Sun
day activities to walking and
church-soing. and Major o. E. Bar
bour. S4-year-old chief Of cq,iSfe1rCr|
tectives, who wanted 70 "te
reformers to mind their os
business"
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
BOY IS KILLED IN
FALL FROM TRUCK
Robert Emerton Loses Life in
Accident.

Robert Emerton, 13, Ais S. Leeds
Ave-, was killed today when he fell
from dump truck driven by John
Dithmer, Is. Of 213O N. Capitol Ave-.
at 0309 Brookville Rd. as they were
driving to dinner from where the Ma
rion County Construction Company is
working near the city limits. The
dead boy was recently transferred
from the crew of Fred Duvan to the
gang with which he working today as
waterboy.
Fred Willis, IS. Of 2516 N. Pennsyl-
vania ST.. was sitting beside Duthmer
with the Emerton boy on his lap.
when Dithmer swerved to avoid
chuck hole in the street. The two
boys fell off the truck. Willis was
knocked unconscious. but was only
Lightly injured. Police telieve the
zs kck passed over the cthee boy,a
+ a
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
By United Netos

By United Netos
r|7UDINGTON. Mich. July 30.
IL -Ludington knocked her an
G Client Sunday blue laws for
a row of hand-painted wax petunias
on the first Sabbath Of their
scheduled resurrection.
Ludington golfed, motored, SWAN,
drank soda pop, went to the movies
and ratified the bones on cigar coun-
ters with even more gay and reck-
less abandon than on other Sundays.
1t did these things SO unanimously,
in spite OF the fact each was a viola
ton Of the old laws which County
R13ecutor Fitch promised to en-
i2ody made any attemt to
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
DRIVER Of DEATH
TRAIN TELLS OF
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
Veteran RaiIroader, White
and Shaken Says Sum-
day Is Day of Dread,

BY United Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 80.
For thirty-six years Glenn E.
Duffy of Terre Haute has been q
railroad man. For twenty-five
years he has been an engineer.
In Il those yers he never had
an accident-until yesterday.
Yesterday he picked the
bodies of three children frfom
the pilot of his locomotive, and
helped with the removal of ten
other bodies from the debris OF
automobiles wrecked by his
train, "The New Yorker" crack
Pennsylvania limited running be-
tween st. Louis and New York.
Today he was white and shaken
after a sleepless night
The first thing I saw" he said.
speaking Of the crash at Liggett. Ind,
near here. where nine persons were
killed, was that the car was full of
women and children. That other ac
cident down at Highland, Ill. where
tho train had struck an auto and
killed four, had been on my mind all
afternoon.
Sees Crash Coming
Il was standing with one hand on
the brake valve and the other on the
whistle cord. But I knew in an in
slant when I saw how fast the car
was coming that if the driver didn't
swerve the car we would hit IT."
Duffy's voice trembled as he spoke.
He has son IL years old
Just the size Of the lad whose body
I took off the pilot at Highland" he
muttered.
II get dozen scares a day." he
continued. 'but these We're my first
accidents. Just two weeks ago
young fellow with a girl dashed across
In front of us. We didn't miss him
yard. My f1reman's face was green
as he turned to me and whispered
hoarsely we didn't hit him"
Sunday Feared Day
Sunday is our day Of dread. !
would never ike to go out on my en-
gfne on Sunday. Every engineer feels
the same way. But. we go, even
though we're sick or shaken from
accidents. We know the road. We
couldn't rest with some one else driv-
ing our engines.
THE watch-word with every en-
gineer is eternal vigilance"
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

First Wrecks Kill Thirteen
Leave Lockerbie St. as It,Was When
Riley Wrote About 1t, Say Residents

f-7HEY want to pave Lockerbie
1T St!
IL From beneath the "cool
shady coverts Of whispering trees"
there comes a protest, the kind Of a
protest that is meant to~be heard.
The other day a steaming, roar
ing machine invaded the sacred
precincts Of the street and started
to remove the old cobblestones laid
along curbs bordering the dirt
thoroughfare.
Immediately the telephone at the
office Of the board of works started
ringing. Residents of Lockerbie
st. were protesting. Officials heard
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

the protest and the machine was
stopped and taken out Of the neigh
borhood, pending settlement OF diff
ferences between citizens and off,
clals.
Mr.. Riley would never have let
them pave this street" said Miss
Kate Kimban. who has lived on the
street so many more than thirty
years hate to tell you how long"
Miss Kimball was Riley's house
keeper, and she still has charge Of
the old home, now a museum.
I'VE don't want them to tear UP
our brick sidewalks and our hitching
posts and carriage stones" she said.
"All we want Is for them to grade
the street and plant some more
trees"
Lockerbie st. folk are not seek
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
Recalls Wilson
Illness in 1919

By United Press
{ President Harding is the sec.
ond chief executive to be stricken
while on a speaking tour through
the country
In September. 1919, Woodrow
Wilson was forced to abandon
his trip in behalf of the League
Of Nations when he suffered a
nervous collapse aboard his spe-
cial train near Wichita, Kan.
Mr.. Harding had an attack Of
ptoma1ne poisoning and devel-
oped heart symptoms and is Ill
In the Palace Hotel, San Fran
cisco, having been forced to can.
eel the remainder OF his Pacific
Coast speeches.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
TYPHOID WARNING GIVEN
Health Officer Advises Safeguarding
of Water.

Warning to provide against typhoid
epidemic by safeguarding drinking
water and sewage outlets was sound
ed today by DR.. Herman G. Morgan.
city sanitarian.
Cases are showing gradual increase.
although the situation is not alarm
ing, DR. Morgan said. Efforts will
be directed toward checking the cpl
demic. which usually starts the mid
die OF August, reaches its peak in
September, and subsidies in October or
November.
City health officers report a lull in
other, epidemics.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
NAVY TRUCK STARTS TRIP

"Hoosier" to Boost Summer Reserve
Camp on Journey.
Camp Shank, United States Naval
Reserve summer camp for boys, at
Riverside Park, will be boosted in a
trip of the Navy recruiting truck,
which leaves Indianapolis tonight for
Great Lakes, Ill.
The truck will stop at Lebanon,
Frankfort, Kokomo, Logansport,
Crown Point and Hammond, Ind.
Lieut.. r. r. Knachel. commandant,
and Max Rawlings of the local sta.
ton will make the trip.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
KILL ONE
AND GET $85,OOO LOOT
Four Wounded in Battle Aboard Speeding Passenger Train
In PENNSYLVANIA,
In Pennsylvania.

killed passenger and wounded four
others before they snatched satchel
containing an $S5,00O pay roll and
escaped into the hills.
Posses are rushing in pursuit.
While the train was speeding along
through a wooded section, the five
men suddenly drew guns and de-
manded that all passengers hold up
their hands. Then they began a syste.
matic search to ascertain whether
any one had weapons.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

Such dear little street 1t Is nestled away
From the noise ofSthe city and heat of the
day,
In cool. shady coverts of whispering trees,
With their leaves lifted Up TO shake hands
with the breeze.
Which in all its wide wanderings never may
meet
resting place fairer than Lockerbie street.
There is such q relief from the clangor and
din
OF the heart of the town to go lettering In
Through the dim. narrow walks. with the
shetering shade
OF the trees waving over the long prone
made
And nttering lightly the ways of our feet
With the gold of the sunshine of Lockerbio
street.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
BUILDING PERMITS GAIN

Construction Valued at $474,944 Shown
Last Week.
Construction valued at s474,944.50
is represented by 296 building permits
issued last week, records show today.
A total of 364 was issued the previous
week, with a value Of s426.371. Real
estate transfers last week totaled 335.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

Il OOI pHySlCldilS III consultation ana
an early bulletin declared serious
heart symptoms have complicated his
case.
Or. Ray Lyman Wilbur, head of
Leland Stanford University and form
er head of the American Medical AS
sociatAon, noted stomach specialist,
and DR.. Cooper. San Francisco heart
specialist, were summoned by DR..
Charles E. Sawyer and DR.. Joel It.
Boone, the Presidents personal physi-
clans.
George B. Christian, the Presidents
secretary, issued a statement cancel
ling Mr.. Harding's entire California
program, announcing he had notified
local committees at Los Angeles, San
Diego and other points the President
was to visit, saying the chief executive
would be unable to carry out his pro.
gram. -
President Harding is somewhat con-
cerned about, the serious turn his
illness has taken. but is in cheerful
spirits.
DR.. Sawyer at that time stated
there were three stages in the d.
gestive disorder from which Mr.. Hard.
Ing was suffering. The first stage, he
said, was marked by weakness, which
was easily thrown off; the second
stage being exhaustion, required a
longer rest, while the third was pros.
tration, in which considerable time
was required for development of
symptoms and the effect on the toxic
condition OF the blood.
Heart Symptoms Develop
The heart symptoms developed with
surprising suddennes late Sunday
evening. causing Drs Sawyer and
Boone to call in the other physicians.
Mrs. Harding remained at the Pres
idents bedside until an early hour
this morning when she was ordered
to bed by Gen. Sawyer.
Trip Plans Undecided
No decision has been reached as TO
the time the President will return to
washington. Neither has 1t been de-
clded whether he will go through the
canal or by rail, though Con. Sawyer
SAID 1t would be better for him to go
py rail rather than subject himself to
@AO AhISAASS neat OIL the canal zone.
The illness from which the Presi-
dent now is suffering first developed
a week ago and it appeared to come
simultaneously with a small epidemic
among the members Of the official
party aboard the Henderson. AT that
time 1t was blamed upon tooe free
indulgence in crab meat. Since then.
however, Dr. Sawyer has expressed
the belief it was partly due to canned
goods eaten on the ship or in Alaska.
Everybody else in the party, after
calling on DR.. Sawyer or DR.. Boone
recovered. Mr.. Harding, however,
put in some OF the hardest work OF
the trip following his departure from
Alaska. He even passed up the fish
Ing trip at Campbell River, B. c., to
work for hours on speeches to be de-
lvered on the Pacific Coast. All the
time he was suffering some pain and
was unable to eat much. Sawyer
was treating him and by the time
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

ing publicity and they hesitate to
give their names. but they do not
hesitate to talk confdentially.
"Riley's poem about Lockerbie
Street is the greatest poem he ever
wrote" said ono woman. "He rev.
erenced the street so much that /
have seen him take his hat or
when he drove into It.
1T really is cooler out here, but
IL they would put in hot pavements
1t wouldn't be the same street any
more. They should keep It just as
1t Isl, as nature intended 1t should
be-"
So the controversy continues over
the question OF whether the street
shall remain as Riley described II.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
Duck Shooters Fined

Shooting Canada-bound ducks
proved expensive to Robert Finska of
South Bend and William E. Boeblke
Of Wanatah, Ind. They were fined
$40 and costs by Judge Albert B.
Anderson in Federal Court totiay
when they entered pleas of guilty to
cha charges OF violating g =
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WILkESBARRE, Pa, July 30.-In
battle aboard a speeding electric
passenger train, five bandits today
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
ENTIRE PACIFIC COAST
PROGRAM CANCELLED AS
HEART SYMPTOMS SHOW
Four Physicians Are Consulting Upon Chief Executives
Case-New Attack Indicates Complications
Patient Is in Cheerful Mood
Condition Is Temporary

SAN FRANCISCO, July 3O-Physcians attend
ing President Harding are inclined to believe his
condition is temporary DR.. Joel T. Boone, who spent
today.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
POLICE AFTER MONKEY

Animal Empties Milk Bottles on Front
Porches.
Residents of the 1900 block in w.
Twenty-Seventh st. reported to police
that a monkey early today tore up
their flower beds and emptied milk
bottles on their front porches. Pa
trolman Franks was sent to try to
get the monkey.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
VETERANS ENTERTAINED
Legion Auxiliary Arranges Program at
SunnYside.

=
Sunnyside.
World War veterans, who are pa
tients at Sunnyside, were to be enter
tanned today by the auxiliary to the
Irvington post of the American L.
gion. Virgil Moore's orchestra from
the Apollo Theater was to play. In
the committee are Mrs. J. Daven-
port, chairman: Mrs. c.. E. Donnell,
Mrs. E. Perkins, Jr., Mrs. Simon R1es-
Ter, Mrs. Dora Reilly and Mrs. Eliza
beth Hester.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
PLAN OUTDOOR MEETINGS
Methodist Union Committee win Ar
range Services.

Plans will be made tonight by the
Methodist Union for a series of out
of-door meetings to be held in In
dianapolis at q committee meeting at
the Roberts Park M 2. Church, A.
B. Cornelius announced.
The object of these out-of-door
meetings will be to increase re1ig-
ious thought and spiritual feeling in
the city.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
Michigan Town Smashes Old Blue Laws With Gay Abandon

Steps taken by officials to enforce
the blue laws were
The Mayor-Visited all churches
and took numbers of automobiles
standing outside. With a view to
prosecution.
The County observation-disclosures
at the procession of lawless automo-
bile drivers. Announced complaints
would be filed and went into seclu-
sion.
The Chief OF County Detectives
HIM a..ssaas.I .a1a@hprch for an ho,r
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
Home Edition

TULL service of United Press,
j. United News, United Finan-
cial, NEA and Scripps Alliance.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30
Forecast

DROBABLY cloudy with local
J. thunder showers tonight and
Tuesday. Not much change.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-07-30

lhnrch for an hour
The automobile of
light. chairman Of
erary committee
v started It al.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
THAT'S DIFFERENT

New ork.-Stock brokers general
ly favor trade union regulationby law,
but they unanimously oppose the reg
ulation of stock exchanges so the pub
lie will be protected from crooked
brokers.
Seymour L. Cromwell, president OF
the New York stock exchange, is lead
ing the fight against regulation.
''Is it not natural" he asks, "that
the legitimate brokerage business, as
represented by the stock exchange
should refuse to have the management
of its affairs taken out of it's hands
and that it should declare itself en-
tirely capable of safeguarding the in
terests of the public 2"
Mr.. Cromwell says he and his asso-
ciates favor a regulatory law that
distinguishes between legitimate
brokers and dealers in blue-sky stock,
Every financial and industrial ele-
ment that supports trade union incor-
poration and trade-union regulation
by law is opposing stock exchange
regulation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street.
Hamilton. Ohio.
Telephone 1895
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
NON-UNION BREAD

The local Bakers Union is making
a determined fight to stamp out non
union bread in this city There is a
big outside concern that in the past
has been selling much bread in Ham
ilton. This firms product does not bear
the label The fight waged by the local
unionites is nearing conclusion as the
dealers say the demand for the goods
is decreasing fast. But why should
any union man or members of his
family buy non-union made bread
and bread made out of Hamilton at
that-when there is so much real
union-made bread made right here
in the city? And when you get union
made bread you know that it is made
in clean surroundings. 1t isn't done
Intentionally, we know; it is simple
carelessness when union people buy
non-union bread. Watch your step in
the future, brother, and help the
cause of the bakers and yourself.