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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
Tangle Becomes More Serious
as Health Board OBJ
jectS,
LEVY WOULD TOTAL S1.1O
State Body Tells Officials 1t
Has No Power to Raise
Rates,

The city board of health will
demand city council raise its
general fund levy from Z to Il
cents at special session of the
council this afternoon. Failure of
the council to act will be fol
lowed by mandamus suit imme-
diately for the higher Levy.
The board OF health is basing it's
claim on a 1919 State law providing
that the city council shall" levy 90
cents for the general health fund.
Counsel for the board holds that the
council has no alternative.
Approval Doubtful
John King. president OF the council.
in session with the board today, agreed
to call the meeting He indicated,
however. that indorsemdent of the
higher tax levy was doubtful. In
either case, a mandatory suit seems
certain to follow, as the levy must
be certified by Sept. Is TO the county
auditor.
King held that the council has no
power to raise a tax levy over the
mayors recommendation which was
: cents. He also startled officials by
stating that if the law required u
cents the present levy Of $1.035 as
certified was Illegal and the 1928 rate
of 947 cents would go into effect.
James NJ Ogden, city attorney, will
investigate this probability.
Total Would Be SI.10
With the S5-cent increase in the
health general fund, health board Of
ficials also said they would mandate
for a 1-cent tax levy for the tuber.
culosis fund. as provided In the 1919
law The present levy allows one
half cent. According to a 1898 statute,
the board must also receive is cents
for school health fund The present
levy allows half cent. This repre-
sents a total increase Of Go cents,
sending the city tax levy to $1.10.
Health BOARD officials hold present
credit of the city is impaired by the
condition of the boards funds. A debt
of ss7 900 will amount to 100000 by
Jan. I, ii was said.
Supplies are needed at the city hos
pital and not a single ambulance Is in
fit condition, it was said.
City officials conferred with State
tax board officials this morning, but
were told they had no power to in
crease a levy. The mandamus suit
was advised to effect the increased
levy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
DRIVER FREED ON
BOOZE CAR CASE
Another Admits Ownership of
Liquor-DiSmiSSed,

Frank Schaffer. 1926 Newman Ave.
indicted for transporting liquor in his
automobile March s, 1923, when police
found a ketchup bottle, pickle bottle
and two TASKS of whisky lying on the
back seat. was found not guilty and
discharged today by Judge James A
Collins in criminal court.
Schaffer's car has been held by
Sheriff George Snider under the law
that provides for sale Of automobiles
N which booze is found. Judge Col
Inns indicated the car would be re-
turned when Schaffer's lawyer files
a petition.
The defendant said he knew moth
ing Of the liquor being in his car and
that it belonged to Orla Vernard. 1927
Columbia Ave, whom he had given
lift
Vernard indicted with Schafer ad-
nitted the ownership Of the liquor. He
was found not guilty and discharged.
although Judge Collins said if he had
been indicted for possession of liquor
ne would have been found guilty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
INDIAN SEER AND
LUCK DISAPPEAR
So Does Husbands Suit and
a Gold Ring.

"Uhgr meaning "Lissen, lady in
Indian.
Let me have some personal effects
of the household and in nine days 1
will bring them back, meanwhile you
will be visited with prodigious good
luck
Thus was the promise of q woman,
an Indian seer" made to Mrs. r.
R. Brown, Apt 81, 3704 n. Pennsyl-
vania ST., three weeks ago.
Mrs. Brown gave the self-admitted
seer her husbands dress suit, two
wooden blankets and a gold ring.
Lady Luck has not arrived as yet
Neither has the woman seer. Mrs.
Brown told police today she was con-
templating giving up all hope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
.DOLL|NGS CLAIMS
WILL Be FILED
Court Sets Oct, 4 as Time
Limit for Creditors,

All creditors Of three subsidiary
companies Of the r. l.. Dollings Com
pany were ordered to file their claims
by Oct. a. The order was issued to-
day by Judge Lynn d. Hay of the
Superior Court at the request Of Bert
Mcbride, receiver. a.
The companies are the Milholland
Machine Company. the Rude Manufac-
turing Company and the Clay Prod
ucts Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
Hey. therel'

Hey, therei
An automobile coming across the
street, about to run down some
unwary pedestrian, and Traffic
man George Sylvest rushes over.
grasps said machine firmly by the
radiator stops it, and shoves 1t
back off the corner.
All OF which might very well
take place since George SyIvest.
a member of the local police force,
famed afar for his strength was
rushing out into the street today
In front Of automobiles going ten
miles an hour, stopping them and
showing them backwards for the
benefit Of Pathe moving picture
camer1nen who are filming his
feats Of strength for distribution
to theaters all over the world in
the Pathe News.
Sylvest included in his exhibi-
tion In the jail yard the bending of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
ITALY is MODELLING
TROOPS IN ADRLATIC
MuSSon Ready for Military Action in Defending Rights
Fiume-CriSS Reg arded as Alarming,

Officials in London considered the
whole Balkan situation as alarming
and feared Italy is ready to go to ex-
treme ends to carry out her plan for
making the Adriatic an Italian lake. -
They saw In the virtual ultimatum
to Belgrade for acceptance of the
Italian thesis for settlement of the
Ffume controversy a firm determine
ton on the part Of Mussolini to carry
out the plan originally conceived by
D'Annunzio in his seizure of Fiume
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
Wen Known Architect Dies

bT UHtEeu TTt68
BRAZIL, Ind, Sept. 12.-MacMillan
H. Johnson, Jr., SO. nationally known
architect died today. He was known
for designing the Milwaukee Elks
building, the Terre Haute stadium,
the Brazil auditorium and had been
prominent for about ten years.
Fifteen years ago he was stricken
with infantile paralysis and has been
confined to a wheel chair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
Alleged Speeder Fined

Virgil Jones, 10. Martinsville, bus
driver for the La Rue Bus Line. was
fined $2S and costs In city court today
for speeding after he had been ar
rested at Meridian ST., and the Bluff
Rd Jones was driving thirty-four
miles an hour when taken into GUS
tody by officer Tremp, the officer tes-
titled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12

Every cent Of this money has been
collected without an organized cam
paign. No one has been asked di-
rectly to contribute.
The contributions run from $4,000
by the Merchants Association to 25
cents offered by a child All were
equally acceptable.
Checks Mailed
Last Saturday $25, 200 was sent to
Washington from Indianapolis. To-
day an additional $4,000 check was
sent to Washington. The remainder
is expected to be sent tomorrow.
Indianapolis stands out from the
other cities In this work. Mrs. John
Allan Daugherty, manager Of the
Washington division. points this out
in the following telegram;
1T is the spirit such as your
chapter has shown that is enabling
the American Red Cross to carry on
its work Of humanity. Please -ex-
tend our genuine appreciation to ev-
cry man and woman who is helping
to make the collection of Japanese re-
lief funds success in your territory.
We need not tell you how urgent
the cause nor the need for additional
funds"
Need Continues
But there is still need for money.
II you have not made your contribu-
ton, make it now. Put Indianapolis
above it's quota. The city has done
it before and 1t can do it again.
Elbert II. Gary, chairman Of the
Japanese disaster fund at Washing
ton, pointed out the need for hurry
ing contributions In a telegram to
William Fortune, head OF the local
Red Cross chapter, he said:
The national organization has i12-
CURED large obligations in making
immediate purchase OF materials and
supplies urgently needed by the
Japanese sufferers. in anticipation of
the funds now being raised through
out the country at the cap Of the
President -
$4,GO0,O00 Spent
According to reports from Washing
ton s4,000,000 already has been ex-
pended in behalf Of the earthquake
victims Herbert Hoover's commit
tee irr-eAarge of purchasing of relief
supplies has need for unlimited sums
OF money. Judge Gary said.
Throughout the country the same
men and women who made the war
time Red Cross a reality are now
united in putting forward the urgent
needs o< Japan.
Ex-seTVice men, nurses and EN-
ployes OF the Indiana State Sanato-
rum collected S49.30.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
SEES BIG
FIGHT ON TAXATION
Expert Addressing Convention of Bankers, CrcSeS Sys-
tenn Used in Canada -McWhrter Talks.

G. d. Billings, Seymour, president,
advocated an extension Of the popu-
lar education campaign adopted in
1922 by Indiana bankers.
Indiana savings deposits are lower
per capita than most States" Bill
ings said.
c. Fl. Kitterman, Cambridge City,
now vice president, will be installed
today as president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
Sawyer Steals
Dawes Stuff

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. -12.-
Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer
stole some Of Hell and Maria"
Dawes stuff today when the two
called at the White House.
"Oh. don't talk so damn much"
Sawyer admOnished Dawes, as
they left the White House and
Dawes was about to tell White
House correspondents, what the
visit was all about.
Dawes was so astonished at
Sawyer he meekly submitted to
be led away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
CITY EMPLOYEES DONATE
81, 900 More to Be Contributed to Re
lief Fund.

City employees will contribute more
than $1,000 to- the Japanese relief
fund of Indianapolis, it was indicated
today. Contributions continue to pour
in to w. t. Bailey, assistant city at
torney. following appeal of Mayor
Shank last week that each employe
contribute from $40 to 25 cents.
Bailey notified Frank Stalnaker to-
day that the city employees quota
would be turned over to Red Cross
officials next Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12

was reported by his
physicians today to
be resting easy at
his home.
Madden, chairman
of the House Ap-
preparations Com
mittee is still in a
serious con dition
however.
T W o physicians
have been in con-
stant attendance,
his family has been
with him, and a
p Ii c O guard has
been thrown around
the house to insure
q hSOIittp uIYief in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12

the streets. He is 6S years old.
His doctors expressed hope, shortly
after noon. he would be entirely re-
covered in a few days.
Mr.. Madden was first sent to Con-
gress from the First Illinois district.
in Chicago, in 1905, and ne has been
returned at each successive election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
A. B. Clark Is Missing

Alfred B. Clark, rs. of 70e s. East
St. was reported missing from his
home today. He is described as hav-
ing dark gray hair, gray eyes, wear
ing dark trousers, a green sweater and
green cap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
His Holiday

LEAMINGTON. England, Sept. 12
-"Cherio. am off for my holiday"
was the last message written by Dr.
Lancelot Craven Wilkinson, 43. before
he killed himself, taking gas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
TO JAP
RELIEF BRING
QUOTA NEAR
City, Without Organization or Direct Appeal, Is Among
Leaders in Raising Red Cross Fund
Checks Sent TO Washington

indianapolis volunteered $40 900 the Red Cross
relief of japanese earthquake victims The quota
$50 900 expected reached within the few hours
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
SOLON IN
SERIOUS CONDITION
Congressman Madden Suffers
Severe Heart Attack,

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. -. - Rep
resentative Martin Madden Of Illinois.
stricken with heart attack Tuesday,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
UNIDENTIFIED MAN KILLED
Three Others Missing, but Crew Es.
capes Injury in Freight Wreck.

C"PoS IIEJuIs III NIOISHO "IoCh-
By Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 12.-Ona
unidentified colored man was killed
and three other persons are unao-
counted for as the result Of a freight
wreck on the Big Four Railroad at
Modoc, Tuesday.
Eighteen cars were 6erailed Mem.
bers Of the crew escaped injury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
Muncie Man Is Named State
Commander at MiChi-
gan City,
CONSTITUTION CHANGED
Baker and SearIS Will Attend
Convention at San
Francisco,
By WILLIAM L. TOMS
Times StGr Correspondent


12.-E. Arthur Ball, Muncie,
was elected State commander of
the American Legion at the In
diana convention here today.
Ball is managerial head Of the Ball
Brothers Company. fruit jar manu-
facturers, at Muncie. He served over
seas with the 117th ammunition train
of the Rainbow Division. He was
student at the first officers training
camp, Fl. Benjamin Harrison, from
which he graduated with the rank of
first lieutenant. At present he is a
captain in the officers reserve corps.
During the last year Ball has been
commander of the Muncie post OF the
legion.
Elder Is Named
Bowman Elder Of Indianapolis was
chosen unanimously to succeed him
self as national executive committee
man for Indiana
The following officers were elected
unanimously: 0. P. Goldman, Rock
port. first vice commander; DR.. c. r.
Bird. Greensburg, second vice com
mander; Whitney Spiegel, Indianapo-
lis, finance office; the Rev S. r. Long.
Sullivan. chaplain; c. F. Cooper. Terre
Haute, historian; Ralph Ruggman.
Auburn. sergeant-at-arms: H. c.
Warner, Valparaiso, athletic office:
John H KipIinger, Rushville. judge
advocate: Earl r. Moss. Ft. Wayne,
Amerioanization officer.
4 Evansville was chosen for the CON
Hvention next year.
Howard c. Baker and E. ]. Searles,
both Of indianapolis, will represent
the Seventh District at the National
convention in San Francisco, Oct Is
to 10. Alternates chosen are DR.. T.
Victor Keene of Indianapolis and Nike
Grider Of Broad Ripple.
Resolutions Adopted
Resolutions on the following mat
ters were approved:
That the Government be urged to
provide an adequate hostess house for
welfare workers at the United States
Hospital at Dawson Springs, KY.
That action be taken to locate vet
Grams graves in Indiana so that mark
ers may be erected
Endorsement of selective immigra-
ton legislation.
Recommendation that Sergeant
Samuel Woodfil, native Hoosier and
designated by General Pershing as the
greatest hero OF the war, be promoted
to the permanent grade OF captain.
Constitution Changed
The convention passed an amend.
ment to the constitution authorizing
the executive committee to choose the
adjutant. who is to serve two years
instead Of one. A finance committee
Of three members was decided on and
the annual State dues were increased
to s1.25, fifty cents of which is to so
into a sinking fund TO retire outstand
ing Indebtedness against the legion
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren of
Whiting. attending the convention
were slightly injured here Tuesday,
together with two local persons. when
an automobile overturned near the
city. Mrs. Ahlgren was taken to a
hospital, where she was treated Ahl
gren suffered a broken jaw.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12

makes known In a very definite way
the goods he likes and those which
displease him.
The Halls got up al $50 a. m.
today. TO drive from Clinton with
Mrs. Halls parents, Mr. and Mrs.
w. II King. Of Montezuma- Mrs.
Hall and Billy help King select
goods FOR his store.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12

William Donald Hall Of Clinton,
Ind. is a distinguished young
gentleman. He probably is the
youngest buyer attending Buyers
Week which opened today.
Billy" as he Is better known,
is ia years old. AS he walks
through the wholesale houses with
his mother, Mrs. Fred Hail. he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
Home Edition

TULL service OF United Press,
l. United News, United Finan-
J cial, NEA and Scripps Alliance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-12
HOURLY TEMPERATURE

They will be read round by round in
front Of The Indianapolis Times Office
and then
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
OUR FAR-FLUNG FROGS.

Westward the course of empire
takes it way! Leaving his native
pool and his local stream that laryn-
geal leader Of the noises of the night,
the American bullfrog, has crossed the
Pacific ocean and invaded Japan to
found new industry for the Island
Kingdom.
1t is because the japanese depart.
ment Of commerce seeks to enlarge
the food supply of that country and
develop spare-time occupations for the
peasant class that our batrachians are
emigrating. The first consignment
has been distributed in the drainage
and irrigation bitches and the rice
fields there, and are chanting the
basso profundo songs of their native
land in that exile.
The hope of the japanese govern
ment is that they will find their new
home acceptable and will increase and
multiply to the end that the farmers
will have new dish of meat, and
that the insect enemies of the truck
gardens and paddy fields will be faced
by a fearful foe, who will end their
depredatiOns by dining off them. In
the common interest of humanity the
United States hopes That every Amer.
lean frog will do his duty and thereby
reflect honor and glory upon the land
of his birth-Cinclnnat Enquirer.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
The Best Editorials of the American Press


least, those who do not get back by
10 are locked out.
The late Richard Harding Davis
was accustomed to relate an exceed
ingly amusing story about this thing.
1t appears that some twenty or 50
years ago che college authorities ut
certain college in Oxford ascertained
that the 10 o'clock rule was dead
letter among the students. Precau-
tons were taken, therefore, to change
the locks at the college gates; but the
habit was not broken up. At last one
interesting young man was caught
redhandel at the Mltre Hotel at the
midnight hour. Next day he was sum-
moned to appear before the faculty,
and was there informed that, unless
he related the expedicnt used by the
students to get by the gates he would
be expelled. The alternative was
hard one, and the young man asked
for "a hours to consider. The next
day he came back and said he had
decided to tell. The answer, he said,
was in certain verse of a certain
chapter in the Book of Job. Bowling
the young man retired. There was a
hurried rush to the scriptures, aud the
verse in question was found to read:
With the help of my God have |
leaped over the wall" The curtain of
history has been dropped over the sub
seguent proceedings.-Louisville Post.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
UNIQUE JOB BUREAU.

Kansas City boasts of an employ.
mcnt agency run by a cripple for
cripples. So far as reports go, it is
the only institution of its kind in the
country.
F. X. Bigler, the man who operates
the enterprise, lost his right arm and
left foot in an accident 30 years ago.
For several years he faced a future
of dependence. Then he. made up his
mind that he would find something
which even a man so handicapped
could do for self-support. Apparently
he found opening enough and to spare,
and the idea came to him Of sharing
these opportunities with other Grip
pied persons. The result was the en-
ployment bureau devoted solely TO pro-
viding jobs for the manned. His work
has increased steadily in Importance,
and in the % years during which the
bureau has been in operation Mr.. Big
l.. has found jobs for more than
$4,000 cripples.
This is as interesting a bit of in
dustrial history, as has been written.
1t is the more interesting because Mr..
Bigler's scheme antedated by many
years the modern activities for max
ing the handicapped self-suppOrting
1t teaches its own lesson of courage,
self-helpfulness and generosity. Like
all such instances. it makes those in
full possession OF their senses and
members wonder II they are making
all that might be made Of their lives.
-Asbury Park Press.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
Voice of the Nations Press
Comment On Leading Questions of the Day.

tability-stability in finances, sta
bility in policies and stability in gov
ernments. If Congress will prompt
ly amend the law TO make conclusion
of an agreement on this basis posi-
bic, the American people will give
cordial approval and heave a sigh of
relief" In endorsing this desire that
Congress act with expedition, the Chi
cago Post further suggests that lit
will be a comfortable thing to know
that at least one of the brood of fric-
tional problems begotten of the war
has been disposed of amicably." II
also is certain, as the New York Tri-
bune sees the transaction, that "if
Great Britain pays us she will expect
France 10 pay her, and France, in
turn, will look TO Germany TO pay.
Thus Germany will be left, as before,
to carry the burden which she has
been moving Heaven and Earth TO
throw off. The condemned criminal
will not escape Judgment. The Amer
lea that fought and contributed her
savings to subdne the outlaw of Eu
rope will not humbly assume the duty
Of discharging the outlaws war
debts"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
AGAIN-THE COAST GUARD.

Round the world for half n year the
big freighter voyaged and traded and
three weeks ago started across the
Atlantic for Boston, a million dollar
ship with n million dollar cargo. She
fought the winter storms day after
day, only at last, with boiler tubes
leaking, cargo shifting, and fuel scant,
TO be forced to call for help. The
Tampa, the coast guard cutter on the
Boston station, hurried to sea in quest
of this big steamship of the Dollar
line. They met some $50 miles out,
the midget and the monster, and the
little cutter, after a game fight, five
days long, with the seas and gales,
and seemingly against the will of the
snllen and wallowing freighter.
brought her safely into Boston hnr-
Dor. One again the coast guard had
proved its worth.
This winter these gallant cutters
have had plenty to do in the North
Atlantic. The Ossipee, assigned tn
the Maine coast, has saved several
cities from fuel famine by bringing
three hard-presscd, coal-laden schoon.
crs from the Cape Cod canal to vari'
Gus ports of Maine. These things have
been done in addition TO the routine
duties of these cutters.
And yet some congressman, when
Representative Winslow some weeks
ago spoke in behalf of this service
seemed to suppose that a coast guard
job was pink tea affair.
Herald.