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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-21
IN NFMORIAM

g IN MEMORIAM
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IN MEMORANDA loving memory of our
son and brother, Guy Stevens. who died
five years ago today. FEB. 81, 1918
HIS MOTHER, SISTER AND BROTHERS.
FUNERAL. DIRECTORS
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Independent Undertaken
Prompt ambulance calls.
The proof OF service is the service 1t
I70S y Illinois st. Randolph ss7o.
1926 Shelby St Dre7el 257O.
FLANNER & BUCHANAN
$50 North Illinois St
Funeral directors TO the people of Indian
apoli5 since 1887.
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Parlors 1922 Union St.
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Main Office $40 n. Illinois St; ~
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Funeral Director. 522 E. Market
Main O9OS-
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906 n. East.
Main 1913.
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1892 Central Ave. Main 1880.
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THREE only. Acorn combination ranges;
5000 value for $50. This Is your chance
to save money on q stove
W. Fl. MESSENGER CO..
pol E. Washington.
ONE dozen Acorn coal and wood ranges at
One-half price TO close out present stock
". II. MESSENGER co.
20I Z. Washington.
Will, pay So cash 10 any one telling me
where I can sell a new sewing machine.
MIR BENaAM- nam OoOO.
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penses, babies for adoption Write Tor book
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BLACK SILK BAG LOST.
Silver mounting: Wednesday evening ;
change purse. handkerchief. KEYS and mis-
cellaneous articles; hber reward. Ran 3622.
LOST-Lady's Quartette song book. on
Northwestern car; has soft black cover.
rolled up and tied with red cord. Finder
please call Randolph 4072. Reward.
LOST-Black MORE silk bag. between Lin
coin Hotel ana go F. St. Joe ST. Call
MISS KERR Main 1862 between 8: 80 and
,. Reward
LOST-AIredaIe dog, black and tan. long
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LOST-Scottish Rite ring, IN downtown dis
trict. Finder please call Webster l72o.
Liberal reward.
LOST-Rappa Kappa Gamma sorority pearl
pin. Name Of owner inside. Circle 1898.
Reward
SIX TCc61ical books, Saturday evening.
Market ST. between Circle and Delaware.
MISS KELLY. preXel 292S.
WOMAN;'S Press Club hin lost Friday. Re
ward. Cal Circle ia or Main 298
AGATE brooch lost yesterday on Olive St.
or Shelby Car. DreVel I613.
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DOW W. WORRIES,
Trustee of Perry Township
7-OTTC7 M. APPOTNTNJT7TT


NOTICE OF ADJOURNMENT
Notice Is hereby given that the under
signed has duly qualified as administrator Of
estate of Katherine Evans Blake, deceased.
late of Marion County, Indiana. Said estate
is supposed to be solvent.
DONALD A. BLAKE.
NJ oOS56
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SKAGGS, ROBERT A.-Age 90 years. passed
away Feb. 81 at 1910 a. m. at his resi-
dence, I07 n. Vile ST. Funeral notice later.
WOEREER. CHARLES F-Husband OF Ada
c.. rise 6S years died at Methodist Hos
pita1, Feb. 20. Euneral notice later.
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DON'T READ THIS

unless you want to make a good investment.
C0lored rental, Broom house. Price $1,000.
viii sell my $500 equity for $500 cash. E.
J. McCRACKEN. Circle 1922. Res. Ran
dolph G416.
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IN MEMORANDA loving memory of our
son and brother. Guy Stevens who died
five years ago today. Feb 81, 1918.
HIS MOTHER. SISTER AND BROTHERS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-21

NOTTCE-The Board Of Trustees for the
Central Indiana Hospital for Insane viii
receive sealed proposals until Friday, Feb.
%, at 10 a. m, for fur1rsning supplies for
the month of March, 1928. Estimate book
viii be on file at Room 14S, State House.
from and after Monday. Feb. 10 1923.
By order of BOARD OF TRUSTEES,
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
DEMURS To
! CHARGE
BY j. {.
Contractor Claims Accusation
Is Political Rather Than
Criminal.

Politics may have had some
thing to do with the indictment
of William A. Starrett and six
others, charged with conspiracy
to defraud the United States in
connection with war contracts, ac-
cording to Starrett, who today
filed a demurrer to the indict-
ment in the District Supreme
Court. Represented by Attorney
Stanley D. Willis, Starrett sub
mits a number of reasons why
the indictment cannot stand.
Involves Cantonments.
Starrett was indicted in connec-
ton with the letting of contracts
Tor army cantonments, and it is al
legged that through them $1,000, 900
was received by favored contractors.
In the first place, Starrett de-
cIares that the indictment does not
allege facts sufficient to show the
commission by him of any effense
against the United States. He
claims that the indictment presents
q political matter of which the court
had no jurisdiction.
The object of the alleged conspir-
acy, according to Starrett, is vain
and impossible of accomplishment in
law and in fact. He also says that
the indictment is duplicitous in that
1t comprises an alleged conspiracy
to defraud the United States and an
alleged conspiracy to commit an Of
Tense against the United States in
one count, whereas the statute
makes each a separate crime.
Alleges Attack on Policy.
It is also claimed by Starrett that
the indictment is in substance an
attack upon a part of the war pol.
icy of the last Administration,
which policy had been authorized
by Congress and followed through
out the war.
Referring to the political aspect
Of the indictment, Starrett says in
his demurrer: 1.-THE indictment does
not state any offense against the
United States. and, If sustained, 1t
must follow that any person acting
for the United States in an execu-
tive capacity and whose acts might
have received the full approval of
any superior officer, including the
President of the United States
would. with his co-workers he sub
5ect to criminal indictment for con-
spiracy at the instigation of a sue.
ceeding administration, if the new
administration should happen to dis
agree with the outgoing administra-
ton in matters of policy, or should
wish to make political capital out
of an attack upon it's predeces-
sors of subordinate officers .
such an indictment is in violation
of the Constitution of the United
States"
The Indictment. claims Starrett
does not set forth facts as to time
place, occasion. circumstances when
the alleged offense has been COM
mitted. He also claims that the
charges are barred by the statute
Of limitations.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09

the police she is sure it was slashed
while in the 5-and-1O-cent store.
Detectives Livingston and O'Brien
are investigating, but are handi.
capped by the fact that Mrs. Night
ingale is unable to give them a
clue.
Examination Of the pocketbook
shows that the slashing was a
clumsy job. probably that of an
amateur, and gives evidence that
the robbery might have been done
with a dull scissors. 1t is the
theory of the police that some one
who had seen Mrs. Nightingale ex-
hibit her money while on the second
floor, after buying two rubber dolls,
followed her to the first floor and
slashed the bag.
Mrs. Nightingale said that she
had two $40 bills and a quantity
of change and tokens. She said she
came to town this morning TO do
the shopping herself.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
D.C.RENIB BOARD
ANNOUNCES
POLICY
Ruling for Entire Apartment
House to Follow Complaint
of Single Tenant.

Rent complaints by a single ten
ant of an apartment house viii be
Immediately followed by action on
the entire establishment by the
District Rent Commission, Chair
man A. Leftwich Sinclair an
nounced as a policy today.
This practice has been adhered TO
in a few recent cases coming be,
fore the rent board, but hereafter
is to be observed as definite pro-
cedure.
On the same day that an apart
ment house tenant files a requess
for adjustment, the commission viii
order the owners or agents to sub
init Their side of the case. On its
own initiative, the rent board will
proceed to fix fair rentals for every
apartment in the building.
While this method will consume
more time in operation, it will In
the end prove to be a time-saving
measure" said Sinclair. THE COM
mission feels that this is the best
way to make fair adjustments"
The apartment house policy was
outlined recently in the commits
sion's opinion and negative order
on motions for rehearing the case
of Pelham. Courts. 2115 p street
northwest.
The commission held therein that
the rent commissions power be
gins with the institution of a pro
ceedin; that is, with the filing OF
complaint.
"a single tenant petitioning in
respect of single apartment would
have his rent reduced retroctively
to the date of the filing of his com
plant the commission stated
whereas a hundred other tenants
in the same apartment house could
have their rents reduced In the
future, although the determine tor
was made upon the same evidence
adduced at the tame time"
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
100000 ND
IN SYME
FIGHT
Citizens Federation Joins With
Unions to Retain Utilities
Counsel.

Two central organizations rep
resenting more than 10000 citi-
zens of the District of Columbia
have endorsed the Times-Herald
campaign to raise $4,000 to. pay
for special counsel in the Potomac
Electric Power Company valuation
case now before the Supreme
Court, thus assuring the early
success of the campaign.
Fund TwO.Thirds Subscribed.
Close to $4,000 has been collected
The action of the Federation OF
Citizens Association Saturday night
in endorsing the fund is expected to
result in a number of contributions
this week from citizens associations
throughout the city. The Central
Labor Union endorsed the cam.
paign about a week ago and since
then ten or more labor unions have
sent checks for the fund.
Never in the history OF public
utilities in Washington has there
been such an important case as the
one now pending. On the decision
in this case will rest the future
rates of electricity, gas and street
car fares. The loss Of the case by
the Public Utilities Commission will
Immediately bring about higher
utility charges.
$4,000, 900 Now At Stake.
In the treasury of the Potomac
Electric Power Company, there Is
today a cash fund of nearly $4,000,
900, this money belonging to the
people of the District. It is fol
these millions that the electric
case is being fought so vigorously
| today. If the case is won. thii
money will be divided among some
81 900 electric current users, eacf
consumer getting from SIT to 500
| return.
A decision from the United States
| Supreme Court on the question
Of jurisdiction will be given GU
within the next few weeks, it wal
said today. From this decision i
will be learned just how much
longer the present fight will con
| tinue.
Fund Needed Soon.
| Conrad II. Syme, special counse
for the Public Utilities Commission
| will continue in the case until Jul.
i. After that date there will be III
special counsel unless the $4,000 i
raised to continue him at the worl
for another year.
Today the fund totals $1.992.55
| Musicians Protective Union Votet
$25 Saturday night and a widow
sent in So.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
MEMORIAL EXERCISES
HELD BY D. C., EAGLES

Departed members Of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles were eulo.
gized by Judge Robert E. Mattingly,
Luther B. Hayes, president, and j.
M. Rinehart, past president. at the
annual memorial exercises of the
Washington Aerie, No. 1875, held in
the Elks' hall last night.
Roll call of men who had died
during the last year was read by
j. Donald Britt, secretary. Invoca-
ton and benediction were pro-
nounced by r. V. Frankhouses,
chaplain of the aerie.
Music for the exercises was
furnished by the EIks Band under
the direction of Arthur S. Whit
comb.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
WILL GIVE CARD PARTY

A card party and dance will be
given tonight by the knights of
Columbus, Washington Council, in
the Washington Hotel which prom
ises to be the social event Of the
Easter season in their circle.
The list Of patronesses is: Mrs.
James A. Sullivan, Mrs. Thomac ].
fitzgerald, Mrs. B. F. Saul, Mrs.
James j. Calvin, Mrs. Florentino
Pamintuan, Mrs. Alfred Corbett
Whitton, Mrs. Howard Boyd, Mrs
M. Burtrum Crabill. Mrs Edwin ].
Erwin, Mrs. Cornelius Ford, Mrs.
Michael A. Keane, Mrs. James A.
Keliher, Mrs. John A. O'Rourke,
Mrs. Frank O,Hara, Mrs. Murray
Russell, Mrs. Leo Rover and Mrs
w. A. Simpson, sr.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
OLD CLOTHING SOUGHT
FOR NEEDY RUSSIANS

Any clothing good to wear will
be gladly accepted by the Washing
ton Y. NJ. c. A. which is cooper,
ating in a nationwide campaign
to gather apparel for Russian pro.
fesors and students. w. H. Ship.
man is in charge of the collection
Shipment of clothing will be made
on May ! so that anything received
this month will be sent Clothing
may be directed to the Y. M. C. A.
1885 G street northwest. Women
need warm dresses, heavy coats
stockings and underwear. Men ask
for overcoats first, then sweaters
suits and heavy shirts.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
Trying To
OBTAIN
WRIT
Whiskey Bore Label Dated
After Law Was Passed,
Agents Declare.

Reseizure of the $50, 900 worth
of select liquors of Frank p. Han.
to whom they were returned last
Saturday after a lengthy legal
battle between Daniel Thew
Wright, his attorney, and. the Gov
eminent, is inminent, prohibition
enforcement officials inferred to-
day.
Keep Constant Vigil.
On what grounds a warrant for
search of the Hall premises, 1000
Seventh street southwest, will be
demanded by prohibition agents is
matter of conjecture. 1t is gens
orally known, however, that agents
are keeping twenty four-hou
vigil over the Hall home in an
warrant the granting OF a search
warrant.
Intimation that a warrant might
be secured on the basis that the
liquors were contraband, iI1asmucd
as they bore labels dated after the
passage OF the national prohibition
law was made by prohibition
authorities.
Levy's Last Resort.
A clause in the liquor law pro.
vides for the confiscation OF all
liquors that had not been registered
ten days after the enforcement q
the law. The point was brought out
during argument for the return Of
the whiskey several months ago by
the prosecuting attorney.
This is probably the last resort Of
the prohibition department, 1t was
learned.
Restoration of the whiskey to Hal
last Saturday came as surprise tt
all connected with the executive de
partment. Had the large assortment
of intoxicants not been returned last
Saturday, however, COMMISSIONS
Haynes and Blair would have faced
contempt of court charges in Police
Court today.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
TRINITY STUDENTS WILL
GIVE DANCE FOR FUND

Students of the Trinity College
will give a dance for the benefit
of the building fund drive in the
main ballroom of the New Willard
Hotel, April IS.
Miss Mildred Flynn, %, is general
chairman, and other committee
chairmen are Miss Katherine Hart.
man, 90, floor committee, and Miss
Elizabeth O'Neill, "a, program com,
mittee. For the benefit of the
same fund the senior class is giving
bridge party April 81, at Ward
man Park Hotel.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
RED CROSS NEEDS AID
OF WOMEN CAR DINNERS

Women of the District who own
automobiles and can devote a short
time each week to first-aid work
are urgently requested by the Dis
trict Chapter of the Red Cross AS.
ISOLATION to register at headuuar-
tiers, 16 Jackson place. Those now
In the motor corps of the associa-
ton have about completed their
terms and new squad is needed.
The first meeting of the volun.
teer service of the District chapter
Of the Red Cross will be held April
rs. beginning at 4:50 p. m. Over
two hundred members are expected
TO attend. Miss Mabel Boardman,
national director of volunteer serv.
ice, will preside.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
ToeEY MADE SECRETARY
OF COUNCIL ON HEALTH

James A. Tobey, Washington rep.
resentative of the National Health
Council for the past two years
was today appointed administrative
secretary of the council with head.
quarters in New York city.
Tobey received his degree in law
from the Washington Law School
last year. He has for several
years been associate editor of the
American Journal of Public Health
he Is president of the Washington
alumni OF the Massachusetts Insti.
tute OF Technology. He will take
up his duties in New York June 1
The Washington times., 1923-04-09

Dear Bill: I've been study
ing Solomon. He must have been
a wise guy, especially about
women. He had so many wives
he probably got some of that
wisdom from actual seeing and
hearing. Frinstance, / note that
the Queen of Sheba arrived one
day with fifty boys and fifty
girls, all dressed as boys, and
asked Solomon to tell which were
boys and which were girls.
Solomon ordered water and bade
each of them wash. The girls
washed to their elbows, while
the boys never went above their
wrists. Thus was he able to tell
them apart. D. P. T.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
WAS HE AN FRESHMAN?
1t has gotten so that 1t is
easier to hide an elephant
than 1t is to hide n bottle of
booze.
OIDONO.
THE BROADWAY BUTTERFLY

THE BROADWAY BUTTERFLY
O an hive y herd tn SchtOry ABBOTT
ne Mary Ann?
Shure she's now a Broadway Buther-
fly, she's thrOO wit pots an pans.
Millunaires, and she has thin, she has
thin by tn score;
Shure they're hanging round In MIL
lions outside her bOudOir door.
She calls thin sugar babies" an she
says they're auful schweet;
An shure they buy her thirty-dollar
shoes T. shOd her pritty feet.
An wan of thin JUS wrote t. her T
kiss her pretty toes
In tn name Of all that's bOOtful, don't
1t win the rose?
Shure she has tn schwillest dresses,
she's possibility grand!
She rides around in limOuSineS-she's
tn lady of tn land.
An she has a Job tn lOikeS of 1t Oh
niver herd before;
She's q dancer for tn "bables," an
she has thin by tn score.
An her hair has turned to willow, she's
what " call q blonde;
An champagne and wine. of that stuff
she Ii surely fond.
An there's something else she does
she says she II q tank,
An she tills M she In rich in stuff y
stick down in the baDk.
THOMAS j. FORD.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
WOMAN 5 PURSE
. SLASHED;S57
STOLEN
Amateur Thief Suspected in
Robbery in Seventh Street
'Five-and-T Ten

While standing at a busy counter
on the first floor of 5-and.10-cent
store on Seventh street this morris
ing, Mrs. Helen Nightingale, of
Capitol Heights, Nd, had her silk
bag slashed and $57 stolen.
Having examined her pocketbook
a few minutes before while on the
second floor of the store at the
toy counter, Mrs. Nightingale told
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
Doubts coue Cures.

Autosuggestion, as advocated by
Coue, or France, is not a cure for
disease, according to DR.. Tom A.
Williams in an address last night
at a meeting of the Washington
Secular League at Perpetual hall.
He declared that disease must be
treated by scientific methods,
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
Takon1a Citizens to Meet.

A business meeting of the Ia
koma Park Citizens Association
will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at
the Takoma Park library. d. n.
Shoemaker, president, will be in
charge.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
70 M Il N E S Q UE.

Dear Bill: A Kansas ne1Us-
paper refers to one of its lady
Subscribers as having an
etching hMmor all 0ver her
head" What she did for It
/ don't Eno1O, but. If she sO0uId
read Heard and Seen there
Mould be lots of good hunsor
IN her head.
BEATRICE.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09

A Florida paper says that
President Harding, after CATCH
ing all sorts of fancy fish, Went
into a country store and bought
some muLlet, saying that he ate
them Uhen boy and preferred
them to oil other kind. This IS
sure to make other "poor fish"
mad. PETE,
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
Jarrett ATTACKS Conspiracy Indictments
d1EARD1roSEEM{a7
-oBy BILL PRICE |N4e&AI%
THE MORMON.

A Mormon Is a sad-eyed duck,
with whiskers on his face, who
has q lot of lovely luck that some
folks call disgrace He has a bunch
of winsome wives that all are true
to him, and not in all their little
lives will their love ever dim. He
goes and puts his arm around the
one he fancies most, the others
never make a sound; their boss
they never roast. The Gentiles he
may chance to meet all greet him
with respect, sfor his bank roll is
rather neat. he never knows neg
lect. He pays substantial tenthly
tax to gentle Jodey Smith, Q smile
he very seldom cracks, his words
are full of pith. He votes the
standpat ticket straight, though il
be gobbed with graft, he fights the
mighty hand of fate and talks the
traits of TAFT He seems to lead a
happy life, 1t looketh good to me;
I'd fain forsake the worldly strife,
a Mormon I would be.
GENE BLOSSOM.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
QUITE A MENAGERIE.

When they met he said. "She's a bear"
And he logged her footsteps every
where.
She monkeyed with him for a year,
All the time calling him her deer.
a little hOrseplay hitched the two,
Now he's the goat, and it's nothing
gnu. THE UNKNOWN.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
THE DOLLAR SONG.

Reprinted, by Request).
How dear to our heart IS the
old Silver dollar, when Some
kind member presents IL to
view, the Liberty head without
necktie or collar, and all the
Strange things which to us Seem
So new. The wide-$preading
eagle, the arrows below it, the
Stars and the words with the
Strange things they tell; the
coin Of our fathers, we're glad
we knew it, for Some time or
other twill come i'm right well;
the Spread eagle dollar, the
Star $pangled dollar, the old
Silver dollar we all love So well.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09
THE CALL TO ARMS.
HOW OLD WILL HE BE?

A writer in an Illinois paper
hopes for this: 81 want to live
long enough to see the time when
an office Of any kind may be
had without the use of money"
We estimate that this guy, il
what he wants should come true,
viii live 1885 years and that he
will have the record of Methuse-
lah skinned a mile.
~
WAS HE AN FRESHMAN?
The man who made the first step
ladder
Came out Of q hole, we know;
But the inventor Of the elevator
Sure passed him long ago.
A hOd-carrier he must have been,
And Irish. well credit him with that.
For it's always hard to keep them
down,
As we know they most always stand
Pat. HANK HAWKINS.
The Washington times., 1923-04-09

From burning religious heretics
in the old days to gfOing them
columns of newspaper space IN
these days Is a long jump.
UNCLE ZEKE.
ROM NE S Q UE.
Five hundred begins it;
Five hundred ends Il,
Five in the middle 10 seen.
The first Of ali letters,
And the first OF all figures N.
Take mp their stations between.
HI. SMITH.
(Mr. Smith asks how many
readers know this one0