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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
BANDIT TRIO SHOOTS
WAY OUT OF TRAP
Police Watch for Man Believed Wounded When Western
10 uo
Oil Station Is Held Up.

man, 166 e. Twenty-Fifth St., night
attendant, took $3.50 and Council
mans revolver. Scott came out Of
his hiding place and walked around
to the front of the station.
One OF the bandits saw him and
ran back into the station, joining
the second bandit, firing three shots
at Scott. Scott said he could not
shoot, because Councilman was in
the way. The bandits fled from the
rear of the station through a win
dow to an auto. where the third
bandit sat. Scott opened fire with
both barrels of his sawed off shot
gun and one Of the men screamed.
Scott is confident he wounded him.
Estelle fired four shots at the flee
ing auto.
r. D. Evans, As s. Illinois St.. said
the auto passed his car. Forrest
Cider. 721 E. st. Clair St., said a
similar car forced him off the road
at Sixty-Third st. and Keystone Ave.
He gave police the name from the
tire cover.
Gordon Toney, keystone Ave. and
Malott Park Rd., said he saw three
men in cornfield near Sixty-Third
st. and keystone Ave-, and one was
rolling on the ground as If in pain.
He said the two ordered him on.
Sergeant Wilson and squad learned
that a man stopped at the home of
Mrs. Shuttel. near Thirty-Ninth st.
and White River. and tried to hire
her son to take him to town. Wilson
found coat on river bank in which
were keys belonging to Councilman.
A blood stained machine was
found in front of 62S e. Twenty
First St., which police said might
have been used in the escape. They
are tracing the owner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
He Shifted a
Little Too
Late
Officer Picked Up Can
First - Defendants
Given Freedom.

m OK BROWN and Charles An
r. derson, both oolored, proprie
Gg tors Of restaurant at 306 N.
Senate Ave, were freed of liquor
charges today because Sergeant
Cummings has a poor nose.
Nov. 10, Cummings walked in the
restaurant, went behind the counter
and saw lard can in I'll e ice box
Cummings picked up the can, shifted
and detected booze--namely a quart
of white mule-He arrested the pro-
prietCrs.
Attorney Walter Pritchard today
asked the charge be dismissed on
grounds that Cummings had no
search warrant and that the search
and seizure Was Illegal
Said Special Judge John w. Kern:
IF Sergeant Cummings had
smelled the booze before he picked
the can up to investigate, the
charges would be sustained. AS it
is, he did not know the law was being
violated until he made the search
Next case"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
Check Artist Gets $4,000
Banks and Business Houses
Defrauded in Clever
Scheme Here.

Indianapolis banks and business
houses have been defrauded of be-
tween SIS. 200 and $4,000 in cash and
merchandise by a clever check
forger. police revealed today through
the -zouigley Hyland Detective
Agency.
The swindle came to light late
Monday when banks investigated a
certified check given them by a
downtown store.
Squirrel Coat
The man went to the store and
purchased $425 squirrel coat, CIV
ing a check. The store took the
check to the bank, which certified
1t, as the man evidently had an ac-
count there. Later the man re-
turned to the store and purchased
$265 worth of Spanish shawls, Civ.
Ing another check. He ordered the
coat to be delivered to 10S w. Will
kins St.. where he had rented a
room. The man, on obtaining the
coat left the city Monday, 1t was
established.
His scheme of operation, by which
he obtained about $4,660 from four
banks, was this:
Under different names for each
bank he opened accounts with de-
posits of 5000 or more cash, to es-
tablish his credit Then he cashed
checks in rotation at the various
banks on his alias accounts at the
other financial Institutions.
Actual money and merchandise
the man obtained was $5,325.50. Po-
lice believed at least $1,000 has not
been reported.
Fletcher Savings and Trust Com
pany, Indiana National, Meyer
Kiser, and Fletcher American.
Used Aliases
The man operated under a mum.
ber of aliases, such as Harry Fields
of Philadelphia; Max Meyers, j. d,
Mueller, Max Lebor, J. Roach, Will
liam J. Miller and Ben Berman.
He was described as being Jewish,
and about AZ years of age.
He first came to Indianapolis, Nov.
10, renting the room on wilkins St,
and paying two weeks rent in ad-
vance.
Operatives Braughton, Lawson
and Gurkin investigated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
STREET CAR LINES
MUST BE CONSIDERED
Says State Is Endeavoring
to Be Fair in Local Case
Declares Board Cropping
in Dark With New Prob
lem and Doing Its Best.
Rv John T, Nib1ack
By John L. Niblack

Duties of a public service
commission charged with reg
ulating bus traffic, the infant
prodigy of transportation, are
anything but easy, declares
Clyde Jones, commissioner,
who heard all the petitions and
complaints arising from in
stallation of bus lines in Indian
apolis.
The commissioner is czar of the
State highways as far as bus lines
are concerned, and city streets are
State highways. Therefore, control
Of Indianapolis bus traffic is out of
the hands of the city council, and
those aspiring to operate purely
local lines must go to the, State
house.
Try 10 Be Fair
'It is our intention to be fair in
the matter OF granting certificates
to operate" said Commissioner
Jones. There is lot to contend
with in an effort to arrive at what
should be DONE"
The State law governing public
utilities in Indiana gives the utilities
a right to a monopoly. Jones pointed
out. Competition with an existing
utility must not be allowed, under
the law.
In considering these rival appl-
cations by the Indianapolis Street
Railway Company and the Peoples
Motor Coach Company the rights OF
the already existing car lines must
be guarded" said Jones. Bowman
(president of the Peoples Motor
Coach Company is sore because we
would not grant him the certificate
to operate the Guilford Ave. line he
CTuIn to Page 12)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
CHURCHES May
BE BOUGHT Yet
Purchase of Sites in Plaza Is
Possible.

Marion County commissioners
may start negotiations in a few days
for purchase Of the two churches in
the World War Memorial Plaza, 1t
was indicated today. Eight members
of the official board of the Second
Presbyterian Church, one of those
involved, appeared before the COM
missioners Tuesday afternoon and
declared the congregation does not
want to stand in the way OF the
plaza project. They are willing to
sell at fair price, it was said.
Monday several members OF the
church headed by Caleb Denny, a
trustee, urged the board to lease the
church in the Plaza. Commissioner
Charles O. Sutton said that since
the men who appeared Tuesday were
official representatives, their views
would carry more weight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
Visit to 0vercroWded High
School Building Dis
closes Grim Jokes.
By Eldora Field

~7OING to school in the eel
~ lar That's what numbers
of Shortridge students are do
ing. Also, they are improving
their minds in the atmosphere
Of rooms 16 by 19 feet, in which
as many as thirty-fve students
regularly take seats or in more
rooms 27 by As feet with an
attendance of 125.
The larger room Is a basement
room, low-ceilinged, done in pressed
tin, and with the average cellar-sized
windows. The teacher in the smaller
room succeeds in getting in that
thirty-ffth pupil by opening a cloak
room door and pushing that thirty
fifth desk halfway through the cloak
room doorway. OF course, Short
ridge has other rooms, but all are
crowded to the gunwales, utterly
inadequate in size and number.
just Visit the Place
Visit Shortridgel Travel through
the dim basement passageways,
where the overflow from the upper
rooms has to attend classes. Inhale
the musty unpleasant atmosphere,
then ascend the stairs, and through
crowded Railways, enter rooms
whose narrow, old-fashioned windows
give but a modicum of right ventila-
ton. Then say if you can, that it's
not crying shame to lay one straw
in the way Of new and adequate
high school building!
I'VE count ON absences" says
lone teacher. "Tf the students all
" come, l. haven't seats enough in
my room" Yet we are people
who are supposed to foster and
encourage education!
No place to park would be a
suitable slogan for the teachers
themselves. They absolutely have
no place to call their own. The min
ute their particular classes are dis
missed they must make room for
the next class and the next teacher.
A number of their desks were OBJ
served in the Railways, and several
of the teachers desks were ignomin-
lously holding place in a narrow
sort of cloakroom. TITS up to me
Turn to Page 12)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
CHAPMAN SCORES POINT
Bandits Case Favored by Evidence
Drawn From Warden.
Bu United Press

Bu CntteU Ff6SS
HARTFORD, Conn.,, Dec. g.
Gerald Chapman became a prisoner
of Connecticut without proper legal
procedure his counsel, brought out
today at the hearing on the bandits
application to Federal Court for a
writ of Habeas Corpus returning him
to Atlanta Federal penitentiary.
Crochet drew from Warden Scott
of Wethersford prison the admission
that Chapman's prison number has
been changed without the Federal
notification to Chapman or his at
torneys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
TO DISCUSS MANAGER
Edward o. Snethen Will Speak Be.
fore Bible Study Club.

Plan Of the city manager form of
government, advocated for Indiah-
apolis. will be the topic Of Edward
o. Snethen, attorney. tonight at a
dinner of the Bible Study Club at the
Y. NJ. c. A.
Snethen is secretary of the
executive committee sponsoring the
city manager movement here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
REALTOR SAYS STEADY
GROWTH HERE ASSURED
Properties Cited Are Ath-
Ietic Club, New Chamber
of Commerce and Filling
Station--Gain of $1,000
a Foot in Five Years.
By Charles CARL

+ Values of real estate in one
block in N. Meridian st. have
increased more than 240 per
cent in the last five years.
Three sites between New York
and Vermont Sts., on the west side !
of Meridian St., are cited by Indian
apolis business and real estate men
as examples to confirm this state
ment.
The sites are those Of the Western
Oil Refining Company. 302-12 N.
Meridian St.; The Indianapolis Ath-
letic Club, southwest corner of Meri-
dian and Vermont Sts., and the new
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.
S16-20 N Meridian st.
Figures Given
Figures show that the Refining
Company, in 1920 leased its property
on an estimated value Of $1,000 a
front foot; that the Athletic Club
leased its property on value
CSlAl1ldltu at p6tOuO n lIOIl lOOl III
1921. and that each front foot OF
the Chamber of Commerce site was
valued at s3.700 this year. All the
leases are for ninety-nine years.
The oil company has frontage OF
1875 feet on Meridian ST.; the Cham
ber of Commerce site has a frontage
OF eighty-five feet and the Athletic
Clubs frontage is 101.5 feet.
These are considered representa-
tive Of increases in Indianapolis. AL
though sums of money involved in
daily real estate transactions here
are not as large as those turned over
in the boom State of Florida, Indian
apolis business men consider the
increases as a conservative gauge
of what general values are.
improvements Aid
The values Of each Of these sites
increases considerably according to
the building improvements trade.
Robert MacGregor, who soon win
become executive secretary Of the
indianapolis Real Estate Board, says
that the growth Of Indianapolis and
the steady increase in real estate
values is assured.
There is no longer speculation
with such an opinion. 1t
Is assured" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
PERFUME TAKEN
AT DRUG STORE
Total Loot, Including Cash
and Cigars, $632.

Bertram Barnhart, druggist, 39 e.
Thirty Fourth ST.. today reported
theft of high-priced cigars, per-
fumes, narcotics and cash totalling
s632. Burlars took $132 from the
cash drawer.
Entrance was gained by battering
the front door with a crow bar.
George Woorley, 516 w. Thirty
First St., said his trousers contain
ing S37 were stolen from his home.
Trousers were left outside by the
burglar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
BUILDING ON UPGRADE
Encouraging Report From State
Made to Realtors.

Building throughout the state is
on the upgrade. ]. c. Shafer. An
derson, Indiana Real Estate Associa-
ton president. told the Indianapolis
Real Estate Board today at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Shafer urged support OF the Great
er Indiana industrial movement and
Thrift week. Jam 1928
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
PLAN PARIS CONVENTION
French Representative to Meet Le-
gion Leaders Thursday.

Commandant 2. Pechkoff, official
French government representative.
will meet American Legion officials
at $3.50 a. m. Thursday to plan for
he American Legion convention
which will be held in Paris, France,
in 1927.
The meeting was to have been
held today but the French official
was delayed. 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02

Republican county chairman, and
George Schmidt, county engineer,
slated to be city engineer.
At the fourth table were
Charles o. Dodson, county coun-
Gilman; Cassius l.. Hogle. county
councilman now and county COM
missioner-clect, and Charles SUIT
ton, county commissioner.
Mayor Shank and Duvall shook
hands.
How about those forty-eight
policemen you named, mayor?"
Shank was asked.
well, did the best l could"
Shank grinned back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
OPEN BIDS DECEMBER 8
Air Mail Route Through Here May
Start in Spring.
BV United Press

BV United Press
WASHINGTON. Dec. Bids for
operating air mail service between
Chicago and Birmingham, Ala, will
be opened by Postmaster General
New on Dec. 8.
The new route which is expected
to start early in the spring, will go
through Indianapolis, Louisville and
Nashville. The new route will
operate commercially as well as
carry mail. The contractor will be
allowed to transport freight and
passengers for his own profit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
EXECUTION STAY ASKED
Terre Haute Man, Sentenced to Be
ElectrOcuted, Petitions.

Edward Barber, Terre Haute, SEN
fenced to be electrocuted Dec. IS for
murder Of Terre Haute detective.
today petitioned for stay Of execu-
tion until the Supreme Court can
hear his appeal, pending from Clay
County Circuit Court. He was SEN
fenced in Clay County on change
Of venue.
The appeal probably will be heard
Tuesday, as the Supreme Court is
not in session this week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
Chorus to Dress
With Fans
BIZ Times Special

ERLIN, DEG. 2.-"1f you
X haven't costumes give
them fans" This was
a police order Monday to the
management of Berlin's largest
revue, For YOU" following
protests against the undress of
the chorus. Fans, suggested by
the management originally,
finally were agreed to by po-
lice with the provision that
they be large.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02

III n II DeucNcu
wounded when a
trio OF bandits
shot their way
out of an armed
trap at the
Western Oil Re
fning filing sta
ton at Maple
Rd. and Fall
Creek Blvd. on
Tuesday night.
S u s p / G | o n s
aroused by a
man lott ering
around the sta
ton led day men
at the station to
tell Ben Scott.
TIC N. East St.,
and Da,,1 Eotol1a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
NEW CABINET TOTTERS
Brands Ministerial Declaration Re
ceived Coldly.

BU United Press
PARIS, Dec. 2.-Premier Aristide
Brands ministerial. declaration to
the French parliament today was re-
ceived coldly. The situation was
deemed serious, leaving the Govern
ment in position where it was not
so certain as it was earlier In the
day that 1t would find safe majority
to support 1t. The ministerial
declaration" was considered the first
test Of strength of the new BRAND
ministry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
Swords Beaten Into Soup Spoons

TH1 OWERFUL Republican
III leaders beat their swords
III into soup spoons when
they met "by chance" in a res
taurant on E. Ohio ST.. Tues
day noon.
At one table sat Mayor-elect
John L. Duvall. John Collins.
city purchasing agent appointed,
and Clyde and Chester Robin
son, bankers.
At an adjoining table were
Mayor Shank and Republican
National Committeeman Joseph
B. Healing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
STATIC IN DUDS LATEST
Don't Dress Victorian In Radio
Age, Says Expert.

I'm a radio age, women shouldn't
dress in Victorian fashion,"
Samuel Russell said today, in his
color studio at l.. S. Ayres and Com
pany. Russell, who is holding q
three-day exhibit of modern art
as applied to gowns. shawls. scarfs
and sport costumes, is the originator
Of the idea Of applying modernistic
designs to wearing apparel.
Clothes are an expression" Rus,
sci said. This age has a different
message and should have different
means OF expression from that of the
past"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
MINE SEIZURE PROPOSED
Norris Suggests Naturalization Of
Coal Fields.

BU UNIteH Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Govern-
ment seizure and operation of enough
coal mines to provide the Nation
with coal in time Of emergency, such
as he said exist, was proposed today
by Senator George w. Norris, Re-
publican of Nebraska.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
BANK SEEKS CHARTER
State Board Differs Action on Aeti.
ton for Month.

: The State charter board today de-
ferred action for a month on peti-
ton of north side residents for a
neighborhood bank. capital to be
$4,000, at Thirty Eighth and I'LL
nois SITS.
The bank will be known as the
Maple Road State Bank. if the char
ter is granted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02

$50 N. Meridian ST., of the oil COM
pany. Scott hid in a rest room and
Estelle went across the street.
The bandits arrived as expected
and holding up j. Edward Council
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
Chamber of Commerce
Committee Discusses
Bond Fight Stand.

hemOnStrance on the S1,-
100000 bond issue for a new
Shortridge High School was
discussed by the Chamber of
Commerce education commit
tee at a noon luncheon today.
The committee did not adopt n
resolution presented by Daniel B.
I Tuten. committee Chairman calling
for letter to be sent the New York
Central Railroad. asking why its
agent. Harry Miesse. Taxpayers AS
ISOLATION secretary Is retained in In
dianapolis.
Board Praised
Luten praised the present school
board and talked on the school
situation.
MANY Indianapolis schools are
composed entirely of portable build
ings, and some other structures are
cheaply built" he declared. "One
Taxpayers Association director who
signed the remonstrance told me the
reason for the action was to pre-
vent rush in giving contracts on
the building"
Luten said Weisse had influence
with the State tax board.
Philip Zoercher, tax board MEM
ber, who was present, declared,
''Meisse has no influence with the
tax board. We don't want enemies,
but we are not giving any friends
fa-ors."
Lawrence Davis, attorney, de.
Tended 4eisse..
The tate tax board will hear the
remembrance Saturday.
Walter Horne, State tax board
engineer. William Fl. Book, schooi
board business director, w. G.. Gin
gerry, head of mathematics depart
Dment at Shortridge and Murray Doll
man of the school board, today con-
ferred on preliminary plans for the
new school.
On Offensive
Following the meeting Tuesday of
the school board, association direc-
tors and rernonstrance signers it
appeared likely that the association
will take the offensive. The remon-
strators will have the first oppor-
tunity to state their case before the
board. Fred A. Sims, attorney, and
a petition signer. said the
association will support the remon-
STRANGE, but wants it understood
that it is not being done in sense
of hostility, but as means of bring
ing before the public the actual cost
of the new building"
Will Support Efforts
The association agreed that If the
tax board found $1,200,000 was not
sufficient to build the proper type
of school, they would support efforts
to raise additional money.
Fred Bates Johnson, school board
member, said he wasn't so sure the
Taxpayers Association would sup
port the board"
The Indianapolis Real Estate
Board. at a noon luncheon. adopted
a resolution hacking the board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
KlPLING SERIOUSLY ILL

Author Is Suffering From Bronchial
Pneumonia.
Bu United Press
LONDON, Dec 2.-Rudyard Kip
ling is reported seriously i'll with
bronchial pneumonia at his home in
Burwash. The authors illness de-
veloped from a chill contracted while
he was on a shooting expedition
Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02

: Police today watched hospitals
and doctors offices for trace Of a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02

ID ARTLY cloudy tonight,
l. probably becoming un-
settled Thursday; warmer on
Thursday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02

A POPULAR radio program
A is broadcast from The In
Annapolis Times studio every
Friday at 8 p. m.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
GP 4 A. Photos

Miss Ray Reilly and the party attending her at her
marriage to Thomas De Lashnutt Thomas, Thursday
afternoon June H. in the garden of her fathers residence
Terrace Top Chevy Chase. In the party Miss Eliza
beth Reilly, maid of honor Mrs Charles M. Thomas
of honor; Miss Marjorie Little of Philadelphia,
Miss Katherine Dreher of Strasburg Pa, and Misses
Margaret White and Ruth Reilly of Washington. The
bride is daughter of Hugh Reilly.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

Martin
group Bingham Packard Of Pittsburgh nat!1n
Katherine Marcel Lilly
Carr uher Frank Bailey Ireadweh Cov1ngon
blvine and ohn ccn"F~00o underwood
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-09-30
KlWANIS HEAR
LIEUT.. WALLIN
AT LUNCHEON

Lieutenant Homer n. Wallin, T..
: n. who is Visiting his mother IN
Washhurn. was the principal spaaK
rr at the kiwaniS club luncheon YES
,orday noon at the Mckenzie h"'"|
Lieut.. Wallin discussed the contro-
Ncrsy concerning the aerial defence,
declaring his belief that the air de-
fence should be part OF III; navy
department.
l., =. Rirdzcll presided rs chair
man Of the day.
y, T.. Byrne congratulated Frayne
EHker, lieutenant colonel in the uual-
tcImaSter'S corps. national reserves.
On his appointment to active duty in
Washington. Mr.. Baker responded.
telling something OF the work ia
which he viii probably be- assigned.
Flank G. Ellsworth. manager of
'hc job Printing Dcpa' mcnt OF the
Bismarck Tribune. AID Harry G.
Hanson. manager Of the i. II. Car
renter Lumber Company, We're taken
INTO membership in the club.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-09-30
At The Movies
ELTINGE THEATRE

Gloria Swanson lived twenty years
during the filming of her latest pic
ture, 1.-THE Coast of Folly" which
shows at the Eltinge today and Thurs
day.
1t sounds unreasonable to state it
just that way, but here is how she
did it.:
The story starts with the desertion
of her millionaire husband by Gath
way. Gloria first portrays Nadine
GATEWAY.
Twenty years later. Madness daugh-
ter, Joyce, is shown as the heroine
of the picture. She is the pet of the
younger set ut Palm Beach. Miss
Swanson is Joyce.
And then Nadine comes back into
the story as the Countess de Tauro
the wife of French nobleman, whom
she wed some years after DESERVING
her first husband. And, of course
Miss Swanson with the aid of q
makeup box and gorgeous clothes
is the Countess.
In one respect Miss Swanson plays
a triple role in the story. If Nadine
and the Countess are classed as one
Characterization, however, and Joyce
as another, it might be termed a
dual role.