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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
DUVALL LINE
GETS SHORT Ter
Fire Department Appoint
mentS Seen Next.

Talk that fire department appoint
ments are imminent was strength
ened today when Roy r. Phillips.
newly appointed assistant fire chief,
conferred more than an hour with
Mayor Elect John l.. Duvall. He
was armed with a formidable type
written list of names.
The line was noticeably short. Du-
wallis "caginess" in avoiding prom
ises apparently has warned off all
prominent leaders.
That Duvall will not dare brave
the chaos that would ensue If key
men of the engineers department
and building commissioners office
are replaced by political henchmen
was the opinion Of insiders.
Reappointment of DIR. Herman G..
Morgan. nationally famous sanitary
expert, as city health officer, was
regarded as certain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25

frequently opposing the moves of the
Miesse organization, planned action
Friday night.
Miesse filed the remonstrance
against the Shortridge bond issue
late Tuesday. This was the signal
for warm protests by board members
at the meeting Tuesday night.
The board declared that Miesse's
body had "double-crossed" the school
city, citing that the demonstrators
had promised during the summer
not to protest against the Short.
ridge issue II the board cut the issue
to a certain um. The board cut It's
estimate $4,000 more than Miesse
and his friends asked.
A. Leroy Portteus. president OF
the civic club federation, announced
the remonstrance fight will be taken
up by the organization at it's meet.
ing at the Chamber OF Commerce
Friday night.
IF the taxpayers association
move means the school building pro-
gram will go unfinished we will sure
ly take action" Portteus said.
The remonstrance sets out that the
bond issue of S1,20O,OO0 for the erec.
tion Of the new school is excessive.
It also said that base and archi-
tect's bids on the construction work
should be received on the structure
before the bond Issue wa, floated.
That man, Harry Ntiesse has
double-crossed this board before and
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May NOT BLOCK
FLOOD PROJECT
Proposition Is Considered by
County Commissioners.

If it is shown that delay in the
flood prevention project approved
Monday by the board of works will
hurt the progress of the south side
track elevaion program, the county
probably will not intervene. COM
missioners said today. Commission
ers were disturbed when they
learned the $2,176, 900 project was
approved without first consulting
with the county.
The commissioners believed that
the project should have been post
poned until the new administration
takes office in order to give the
county an opportunity to investi-
gate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
TERM IN ATLANTA
LIFTED BY ORDER
Action Leaves Connecticut
Free to Hang Slayer
Bandit if Federal Court
Sustains Executives Au-
thority in Case.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-
President Coolidge today COM
mutted Gerald Chapman's IS
twenty -fve-year sentence in At
lanta Federal Penitentiary for
robbing the mails in New York,
thus making him a prisoner of
the State of Connecticut to
hang him, a week from tomor-
row, if it so chooses, for the
murder of Policeman James
Skelly, New Britain.
White House officials announced
the order committing the unserved
Federal prison term was signed last
night and sent Warden Scott of
Wethersfield State Prison.
Attorney General Sargent asked
President Coolidge for a commuta-
tion of Chapman's sentence. No
court precedent has ever established
the right of prisoner to refuse a
commutation. A precedent has been
set which would have allowed Chap
man the right to refuse ain outright
pardon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
ideal WEATHER
FORECAST FOR
PILGRIMS DAY
Special Church Services
Planned - Aid to Be
Given to Poor.

Indianapolis will observe Thanks
giving Thursday with special church
services and the distribution of aid
to the poor.
An ideal Thanksgiving setting is
promised by the Weather Bureau,
which predicts lower temperature.
Charitable organizations and indi-
viduals will distribute baskets to
needy families. Practically all bust
ness and public buildings will be
closed. Boy and Girl Scouts will
aid in delivering baskets.
Family Welfare Society is acting
as a clearing house for clubs and
persons desiring to give baskets of
food, Miss Rhoda Welding. secre-
tary, said.
Salvation Army will hold special
services at "a S. Capitol Ave. 1901 w.
Washington st. and Foutnain
Square at night Major w. 3.
Sewers, announced. Baskets will be
sent out to special needy families.
Special menu will be served regular
industrial workers at 205 w. Pearl
St
s5nerfff oner Hawkins said there
were 100 prisoners in Marion County
Jail, the lowest number in years.
Prisoners will attend special church
services at 10 a. IN. conducted by the
Rev. w. P. Knode, of Wheeler
Rescue Mission, who has preached
at the Jail for twenty years at 10
q. m.
Bread, roast pork, gravy, mashed
potatoes, cranberry sauce, celery,
coffee, apples and grapes, will make
up the noon menu.
Mrs. Catherine Mcbride Hoster,
national president of Women's Relief
Corps, asked businesses and resi-
dences be decorated.
Wheeler City Rescue Mission, 241
N. Delaware ST.. and volunteers of
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University Co-eds
Take Up Fad and Now
It's Here.
= OSIES." they calI 'em.

r. OSIES," they call 'em.
III When Indiana Univer-
4 sity co-eds at Blooming
ton took up the fad OF wearing
mems socks over their stockings,
it was sure thing it wouldn't be
long until some enterprising miss
would start it In Indianapolis.
NJ g T-sre Stewart, 291S *
Pennsylvania ST., wears 'em pulled
up neatly, albeit slightly rolled.
However, they wear the ''hosies"
just any old way, and the louder
the better.
Dark cOlored socks with flesh
colored stockings provide the most
startling effect. 1t is as If there
were no stockings.
Although Miss Stewart didn't
say, it is suspected the style origi-
mated as extra protection from the
twinkling toes Of Charleston
dancers.
With women in the barber
shops, voting. working on the rail-
road and now wearing mems
socks, men will have to grow
boards and take to chewing to-
bacco.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
INJURIES CAUSE
W0MAN'S Death
Was Injured in Traction
Auto Accident.

Mrs. Jesse Lathrop, So, of Mar
shall, ILL.,. died today at the home of
a relative, Robert Hill, 1904 e. Tenth
St., as the result of injuries received
in an automobile accident here
Nov. 21.
A car driven by Hill, in which
Mrs. Lathrop was riding, passed be-
hind an inbound street car at Cruise
and E. Washington SITS. and was
struck by an outbound Richmond
division r. H., 1. & z. traction car.
Oliver Hill. Greenfield, Ind, motor
man on the car, was charged with
assault and battery at the time Of
the accident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
CINCINNATI TO
PICK MANAGER
FIRST OF Year
Ohio City Ready to Take I'm
portant Step in Long
Revolution.
G. O. P. BOSSES OUSTED
Charter Calling for Modern
Government Adopted.

Bu Times SDectdt
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 25.
-Cincinnati's first council of
nine elected under proportional
representation will take Office
Jan. /. These nine councilmen
will select a city manager, in
whom will rest the bulk of
executive and administrative
power and responsibility.
And so, Cincinnati will take it's
most important step in long po-
litical revolution.
Once a machine governed city, as
striking an example of rock-ribbed
Republican ,bossism as existed in the
United States. Cincinnati now has
a charter Incorporating the most
modern forms of municipal govern.
ment known. Modern" yea even
radical" some Of the old ward and
precinct politicians have said.
Started in 1928
The change began back in 1923
when Murray Seasongood, once
member Of the Republican executive
and advisory committee, told a group
Of business men the present city gov
ernment was not deserving of the
annual extra tax levy it was accus-
toned to ask OF the voters.
Shocked when reputable citizen
thus announced that the city fathers
were unworthy of necessary reve-
nue." the voters began providing
taeir city's goxarl;ment Even the
Republican machine grew anxious
and had a committee hire Lent D.
Upson, Detroit municipal expert, to
make an investigation. At the same
time. in response to a plea of the
Cincinnati Post. a Scripps- Howard
newspaper, for a new deal, Bird
less Ballot League" was formed. BY
the summer of 1924 it had grown to
such proportions that it initiated
among the electorate an amendment
to the city's charter.
Vote Two to One
Under Ohio's home rule charter
laws, Cincinnatians went to the
polls in November, 1924, and voted
$4,000 to 100000 to adopt this amend
ment. The Post was the only news
paper campaigning for the proposal.
The new charter abolished the Of
fee of elective mayor and his two
cabinet officers, the service and
safety directors. All their duties
were placed in the hands of city
manager.
In place Of the council Of 50 (26
of whose members came from as
many wards into which the city was
rip-sawed), council Of nine was to
be chosen at large. This was to be
done every two years under the Hare
system of proportional representa-
ton, with the voter expressing his
preferences for council, /, 2, 3, 4, and
SO on, instead of with the time
honored x mark. No party designa-
tions were used.
This council was to elect It's own
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Harry Miesse, secretary of the as.
sociation, insisted the demonstrators
sought to insure against waste of
public money rather than block the
building program.
The board waved this explanation
aside and asked the association for
a conference. A meeting with the
associations directors for 2:30 p m.
next Tuesday was arranged Com.
missioners and demonstrators will
fight 1t out across a table.
Delay Others
The board will insist that unless
it can build the new Shortridge at
once and sell the old Shortridge to
provide funds for additions to six
grade schools the entire program
will collapse.
Shortridge's faculty was stunned
by the new stone in the nathway to
modern accommodations. Conges
tion is so bad that the faculty will
ask that the student body be di-
vided into two sections after the
first of the year.
One will attend classes in the
the other in the afternoon.
This will necessitate limiting subjects
each pupil can take and n larger
faculty, 1t is thought. Shortridge
hackers pointed out that the Miesse
Association would increase the
school expenses as long as the new
Shortridge is delayed.
Meanwhile the FEEDER alton of Com
Civic Clubs, which has con.
sistently fought for better schools.
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HALLIDAY SESSIONS TO BE
NECESSARY FIRST OF YEAR
Conference Arranged With Directors
in Hope of Compromise-Civic Fed
GRAFTON to Aid Battle to Prevent
Delay in Construction Work.

The Indianapolis school board up in today and
prepared to fight to the finish its building program
product of five of labor argument and compromise
Board members the collapse of their carefully worked
out plan to relieve overcrowdng in high schools end halliday
sessions for thousands of grade pupils and take thousands of
pupils out of unsghty poorly equipped portabes
STRANGE of the Indiana Taxpayers Association against
2OOOOO bond issue for Shortrdge high school building
is upheld by the State board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
HOSTILE JANITOR SOUGHT
Tenant Who Fired Furnace At
tackled, Police Are Told.

Police today investigated an at
tack made on Carol Sheets of % w.
Thirtieth st.
Sheets told police he went into
the basement of his apartment to
fire the furnace, because the build
ing was cold. The janitor came in
and struck him, he said, cutting a
cash over his eye. The janitor is
sought
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PRINCESS Is B0Rl
New Queen of Siam Becomes
Mother.

BIZ IWfTFW FTt60
hancock, Siam, Nov. 27.-A
daughter was born today to the new
queen Of Siam, Chaochonn, successor
to the childless queen, recently de-
posed. The king. in putting aside
his first queen, held that she had
failed to perform her duty toward
the country when she did not have
any offspring.
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COOLIDGE PLANS
QUIET HOLIDAY
President Relieved by Re-
ports on Fathers Condition.
BIZ United Press

Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Presi.
dent Coolidge will spend 6. quiet
Thanksgiving at the White House
tomorrow, with only intimate friends
of the family as his guests. to feast
on the wild turkey dinner which has
been planned for him.
The President was much relieved
at latest advices from Maj James
F. Coupal, his physician, who went
to Plymouth, VT, TO report on the
condition Of his father, Col. John c.
Coolidge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
FRENCH R0UT TRIBES
Druses Are Reported to Have Fired
Town Before Leaving.
BIZ United Press

BU JNtfed PFfSS
LONDON, Nov. 25.-Druse tribes
men are reported by the Daily Mails
Beirut correspondent to be in full
fight from Rachaya which has been
occupied by the French. The French
received heavy reinforcements be-
fore clearing the Syrian stronghold
of the tribesmen. The Druses are
reported to have set the torch to the
town before fleeing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
CHILD STRUCK BY AUTO

James Freeman, 3, of 649 Hamil-
ton Ave-, was bruised when struck
by an automobile driven by Laymar
Kldwell, so, Of 4O6 N. Hamilton Ave-.
while playing in front Of his home.
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MITCHELL KEPT AWAY
Colonel Refused Permission to See
His Baby Thanksgiving.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Col.
William Mitchell today was refused
permission by the War Department
to visit his baby daughter in De-
troit. Mich, during the Thanksgiv-
ing recess of his jury Of generals
court-martial.
The court planned to recess from
tonight TO Monday and he asked to
be released from his confinement
to the District of Columbia. "Disap-
proved" was the laconic reply.
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PEDESTRIAN KILLED

BIZ DntteG PfeSS
GOSHEN. Ind. Nov. 25.-John
Wander Reyden, SO, Of Goshen was
killed today when he was struck by
an auto driven by Earl Hostetler of
Middlebury while crossing a street.
Hostetler is held pending investiga-
ton.
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BOOTLEG TURKEY NEW
Andrews Tells Dry SIeuths How
Rum Runners Are Doing 1t.
BIZ United Pres

BIZ United Pre83
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.--Assist-
ant Secretary of the Treasury An
drews today warned prohibition
sleuths to keep a close watch for
Thanksgiving bootleg turkey"
Bootleggers, it was learned have
adopetd novel method of dispos-
ing of holiday wares.
They take a dressed turkey and
put quart bottle of liquor inside
the bird.
The consumer gets two for one
a turkey and a bottle-but the price
is double.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
RESTRAIN DEFENDANTS
Federal Judge Issues Order i'm Vol
stead Act Cases.

Seventeen defendants were re-
strained from violation of the Vol
stead Act, and from removing evil
dence in six residences and pool
rooms at Jeffersonville, Ind. in an
order issued by Federal Judge
Robert c. Baltzell today.
Federal officers arrested the de-
PENDANTS, who are in Jail there.
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BIZ United Press


Bu United Press
TOLEDO, Nov. 25.-Toldo breathed
easier today in the belief that the
clubber who has struck down nine
women, killing two of them in at
tacks. has left the city. For the
first time in a week no reports of
attacks were received last night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
.FLIERS' BODIES HUNTED
Soldiers and Planes Search for
Drowned Army Pilots.

By United Press
HONOLULU, II. L., Nov. 25,-
Fifty enlisted men today continued
the search for the bodies of Capt.
Karl Fl. German and Lieut.. Howard
c. Brandt, Army fiiers, who drowned
when their Martin bombing plane
was downed off Aahu Monday. The
beach is being patrolled by men and
airplanes. Rain and high seas have
interfered with the search.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
COMMUTATI0N REFUSED
Arch Criminal to Fight 10 Serve
Prison Term. a's' s-- So

Arch Criminal to Fight 10 Serve
Prison Term. s--@'s-'-
Bu United Press
HARTFORD, Conn.,, Nov. 25.-
Gerald Chapman today refused the
Communication of his Federal sentence
issued by President Coolidge.
When the communication of the
sentence was delivered to Warden
Scott at Wethersfield State Prison
here, he notified Chapman's attor-
neys. Joseph Freedman and
Charles Murphy. associate counsel
for the bandit, went to the prison
and in their presence Warden Scott
read the presidents order to Chap
man.
Listens Quietly
Chapman listened quietly until the
warden had finished and then in a
calm voice refused to accept it.
There is some doubt as to whether
Chapman can refuse to accept the
Communication, which makes him a
State prisoner and liable to hang
for the murder of Policeman Skelly
of New Britain. The bandits attor-
neys will take the mater into the
Federal courts at once in an effort
to show that Chapman does not
have to accept freedom.
Not to Hang Next Week
Chairman will not hang Dec. as
ordered by the State courts, State S
Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. who
prosecuted the famous bandit, told
the United Press.
Governor Trumbull will be asked
to grant the bandit another reprieve
because Of the hearing in the Fed.
eral Court here Monday on his ap-
plication for a writ of habeas corpus.
Alcorn said he had not yet decided
on how long a reprieve he would
ask for.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
Talk Is Untrue

"The talk that this appeal will
result in a disruption of the entire
construction program of the Indian
apolis school city is untrue. The
appeal has nothing to do with the
other high schools and is intended
solely to procure a businesslike pro-
cedure with reference to Shortridge.
The assurance of support for our
point of view that have come to our
association today leave no doubt
that the great mass Of taxpayers in
Indianapolis favor the appeal as
means Of finding out exactly what
it is proposed TO spend on Shortridge.
Any blanket grant Of money without
a clear knowledge of the cost OF ehe
intended construction is unbusiness-
like in the extreme. II Is an invita-
tion to extravagant bids and results
in substantially less than a dollars
worth of value for each dollar ex-
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Notice to Dealers
and Carriers of
The Indianapolis
Times:
Times:

On Thursday, Thanksgiving
day, the indianapolis Times
will publish one edition, in ac-
cordance with our holiday
custom.
Out-of-town carriers who re-
ceive papers on interurban
cars between 1880 and 1880
p. m. may expect their pa
pers from one TO two hours
earlier than usual.
Carriers in Indianapolis will
receive papers from two TO
.hree hours earlier than usual,
with the exception OF those
whose papers are delivered
by traction cars. These car
riers will get their papers on
traction cars leaving Indian
apolis not later than 2 o'clock.
There will be no late Final
or Pink Sports edition.
TIMES CIRCULATION
DEPT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25
STABBER, CZUBBER,
STRANGER HUNTED
Two Girls, Under IS, Attack ed by Phantom Man With
Knife-BIudgeon Fiend Thought Routed.
BIZ United PreRs

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, Nov. 25.-
Drastic action was considered here
today to capture the phantom
stabber' whose attacks on young
girls bear striking resemblance to
those of the Toledo "clubber."
The entire city has been aroused
by a series of attacks extending over
two months, which eliminated Mon
day night with the stabbing of two
girls who are recovering.
AS In other instances, they were
attacked in the early evening as
they were on their way home. All
the stabber's victims have been
under 16 years of age, and all have
been stabbed in the breast.
BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25.-With
two attacks on women so far this
week, apparently marking resump-
ton of "the strangers" activities,
police were increasing their efforts
to arrest the man, believed respon-
sible for two murders in the last
month.
A dozen suspects, rounded up in
the last fortnight, have been dis
charged because of lack of tangible
evidence of identification.
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What MieSSe
Says

Harry Miesse, secretary Of the In
dianapolis Taxpayers Association.
issued this statement explaining the
remonstrance on the Shortridge High
School bond issue:
"The appeal of the indianapolis
Taxpayers Association on the pro-
posed Shortridge High School bond
issue is a step authorized by law
to obtain a precise statement OF the
expected cost of the school, based up
on the approved plans and specifi.
cations that will be used In the
actual construction.
For Orderly" Program
There never has been. nor Is
there now, any desire or intention
on the part of the association to
stand I'm the way OF the Shortridge
project and, in fact, the position OF
the association during the tangled
financial situation of the school city
has been that an orderly program
Of construction and expenditure
should be devised which would per.
NIT the erection of the buildings
most needed, including the high
schools and elementary schools.
"In this specific case a blanket
order is adopted for a bond issue
OF s1.200.00 without n statement of
the proposed cost. In the interest
of economy for the taxpayers. as
we'll as in the interest of an efficient
school plant for the tens Of thou.
sands of young people who will use
the building in years to come. the
taxpayers association is insisting
and will continue to insist on an
explicit statement of cost.
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II ARTLY cloudy tonight and
i Thursday; somewhat cold
er tonight with lowest tempera-
about "a.
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MT R. FIXIT win help you
W1 with your problems at the
City Hall. His column appears
on the editorial page daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-08

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Washable qualities. Sizes 6 to
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Smart Little Goats
and Hats to Match

There are both tailored and dress
models, in the most adorable styles for
little folks OF 70 5, fashioned of
novelty cloths, fannels and faille silks
The coats are nicely lined and inter
lined and are priced from
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Hats to match at 49,. S3.95 to S5.95
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