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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
CROSSING GUARD
/ LACKING; POLICE
/ THREATEN ARREST
Afidayits Against Heads Of
Railroads Threatened
After Disclosure in
Council,
|TIBBS AVE. DISCUSSED
Ordinance Calling for
Watchman Passed More
Than Year Ago.
.TIBBS AVE. DISCUSSED

Following disclosure in city council
Tuesday night that no crossing
watchman had been installed at the
Tibbs Ave-, crossing of the T. II. l.
& E. Traction Company, the c. G. G.
C st. L., and Peoria & Eastern Rail-
roads, despite the passage of an
ordinance in August, 1928, ordering
one, Police Capt Charles Sumner.
announced today that he would ask
the city legal department to prepare
affidavits for the arrest Of superin-
,tendents Of the three companies.
Penalty provides for a fine not
more than 5000. or sentence OF
not more than thirty days. Every
day with no watchman installed, a
separate offense.
Summer said he visited the cross
ing and found no watchman.
Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff
said police had not gone into the
matter earlier because they had not
been informed the ordinance was
passed. He said he would ask the
city legal department to send him
copies Of all city measures requiring
police enforcement as soon as they
are passed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07

of the T. H, I. & E. Traction Com.
pany shops at Lebanon, Ind.
The mother ran into the living
room and tried to smother her fam
ing clothing on a davenport. The
son did not notice her as he ran
into the f1ame-filled kitchen and
dropped to the floor.
NeighbOrs Go to Rescue
Neighbors kicked out a front win
dow and extinguished Mrs. Smiths
clothing.
Firemen extinguished the flames
with a damage OF 500 to the house.
The explosion badly damaged fur
niture on the lower floor.
Police Capt. Fred Drinkut, sent
Lieut.. Barrett Ball and Motorpolice-
men Baker and Lowe who admins
tered first aid until city ambulance
arrived. Ball charged in his report
to Drinkut that the ambulance was
late in arriving.
According to the story told by
Mrs. La vonne Smith she and her
mother-in-law went to the kitchen at
$50 a. m. to prepare breakfast.
ST was standing near the oil stove
with the lard bucket in my hand
and heard the explosion. ran out
OF the room that filed with flames
and mother followed screaming to
me to open the front door. I tried
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SMALL TO RULE
TODAY ON GRANT
Attorney Makes Another
Plea for Chicago Boye
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO Jan. 7.-Governor Len
Small is expected to rule sometime
today on petition for another re-
prieve for Bernard Grant, Back
0, the Yards boy sentenced to hang
Jan. 16 in connection with the
murder Of a policeman.
Attorney J. J. Mccarthy, repre-
senting groups IN Grants case, made
long distance call to Small at
Springfield and asked Communication
OF sentence or an immediate re-
prieve. The present reprieve expires
Jan. 16.
Letters and kilograms Of protest
against hanging OF the youth are
coming in from all parts of the
country. Practically all of them
argue that if Nathan Leopold and
Richard Loeb. millionaires, can get
of with Jail sentence for a con-
fessed murder, Grant, the penniless
youth, ought to be given the same
brand Of justice. Grant denies hav-
ling had hand in the murder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
NE]DL' s FRIENDS
CLAIM HE HOLDS
EDGE IN SENATE
Race for President Pro Tenn
Is Hot-Leslie Favored
in House.
Thursday
PROGRAM

House and Senate convene at
10 a. m.
Frederick E. Schorterneier,
secretary of State. presiding in
the House; Lew Bowman. State
auditor, presiding in Senate.
Invocation in House by Rev.
o. B. Moor of Third Reformed
Church; in Senate by the Rev.
j. A. Long of North Park Chris
tian Church.
Roll call.
Administering oaths of Office.
In House by Supreme Court
Justice David A. Meyers; in SEN
ate by Chief Justice julius C.
Travis.
Election Of officers.s
Joint session in House cham
bers.
Message of Governor Emmett
F. Branch.
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Election of Senator James j.
Nejdl, Lake County, as president pro
iem OF the State Senate, was pre-
dicted by his friends today when
Nejdl arrived to take personal charge
of his campaign, conducted hereto
fore by ieutenants. He claims he
has eight votes more than the seven
teen majority necessary for cleo
ton.
It was rumored that two members
Of the Marion County delegation
would not support Senator Thomas
A. Daily, Indianapolis, Nejdl's op-
ponent
ate membership had arrived at noon
today ready to participate in caucuss
tonight preparatory to selection of
1.-The General Assembly officers. The
Assembly convenes Thursday at
10 a. m.
Daily still claimed today he had
twenty-five votes pledged him.
Harry Leslie, Lafayette appears to
have at least seventy votes of the
eighty-four Republicans in the
House, according to friends. Support
of Charles M. Clark, Representative
from Johnson and Marion Counties
appeared to be dwindling. according
to his opponents. Clark attended
the meeting called Tuesday night at
the Lincoln by Walter Bossert.
Grand Dragon of the Ku-Klux Khan
in Indiana. A boom was started to-
day for Representative James M.
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NEIGHBORS KICK IN WINDOWS
IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE WOMAN
Flaming Liquid Thrown Throughout
Lower Floor Of House Daughter
in-Law in Kitchen at Time Of Acct
dent Is Slightly Hurt.

Mrs Rosa Smith, 49, died in city hospital today Of burns
received at $50 today when egalon
exploded in her kitchen, 523 W. Twenty-eighth St.
Her Kenneth Smith, q, who the fame-fled
to attempt to her, is condition at city
hospital.
Mrs Smith poured kerosene from the the kitchen
stove fire. The flaming oil thrown through
the lower floor of the house.
Mrs LaVonne Smith, 49, wife Kenneth in the kitchen
with Mrs Smith, escaped with slight about the head
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HOURLY, TEMPERATURE
Luck Turns
BB Times Special

bH Itm6S ND6cJdt
1LEVELAND, Jan. T.
IL Hundreds OF thousands
IL OF people-perhaps mil.
lions-rich. poor and weIl-to-do.
scratched their heads for weeks
and then sent in their entries
in the big prize contest for the
best name for a new weekly
magazine.
The first, prize of $40. 900 went
to a needy man who had spent
several months scribbling thou.
ssuds Of names on paper, who
broke so under the strain of
prosperity that he just went out
and reckIessly spent nearly all
OF it, to the neglect of his wife
and four children.
Mrs. George a. Elwell. wife
Of tie man who won the s20, 900
with the name Liberty" made
this complaint Tuesday in ob.
taining warrant against her
husband charging neglect Of the
children. Mrs. Elweu claimed
EiAFe1I has spent all but $4,000
of his windfall. and that the
Government would claim s., 800
of that Tor Income tax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
URGE HEALTH INSPECTION
Need for County School Children
Cited at Meeting.

The need for more adequate medi-
cal inspection Of children attending
county shcools was voiced by DIR. A.
w. Miller, county health commits
sioner, at a meeting of county board
of education trustees with Lee p.
Swails, superintendent, today. w. III.
Payne. trustee Sheffield Township,
Tippecanoe County, and member OF
the legislative committee OF the
Township Trustees Association. op-
posed the county unit bin in a brief
talk.
At noon, trustees were guests Of
Homer S. Dunn business director Mu.
sical Arts Society OF America, Chi
cago, at luncheon at the Spencer
H5usg. Dunn addressed trustees on
re value Of rnus;ical training 70 chill
dren. Practical deanonstrat toms were
given through the aid Of talking na.
chine records.
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OLD ACCIDENT REVIVED
Pure Oil Company Sued for Dam
ages TotaIing $4,000.

Two suits asking damages totaling
$4,000 were fled in Superior Courts
5 aid today by Harry L. Miller
and Herbert c. Nye, both Of 1868
Stuart St, against the Pure Oil Com
pany Plaintiffs alleged on Aug. 22,
1924, they were in an automobile
which coIlided with one Of the COM
pany's trucks parked at E. Thirty
Fourth ST. and Keystone Ave.
They charged the truck was i'm
properly parked and had no light
burning. Miller, who alleged his
face was dlshgured and SCARED,
asked SIS 900 damages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
:. H. VAN 0RMAN HERE
Lieutenant Governor Elect Talks
Over Plans.

Hum OF legislative talk increased
today at the Ciaypool with arrival
of +. Harold Van Orrnan. Lieuten-
ant t-Governor-elect, from Evansville.
Both hold-oVer and new Senators
visited his headquarters.
Z Plans for the Inauguration Mon
day swere discussed by Van 0rman,
Clyde Walb. Republican State chair
MAD, and other Republicans. Van
OrIRan will reside at the Sphinx Arms
dufing the Legislature session.
#All Senate proceedings Will be
o Ben andkabove board this year. as
lag as 4 am presiding" said Van
CRnan. Nothing underhanded win
y attempted II I can prevent II.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
BARRIERS BOARD MEETS
Organization Work Among Women
to Be Considered.

Unlonization Of women beauty
parlor employees was among matters
considered by Journeymen BARRIERS
international Union executive board
at union headquarters. 222 e. Michi-
gan ST., today. J. C. Shanessy. presi-
dent, said.
Pensions, trade schools and aged
home were other matters to be dis
cussed during the session, which will
last several days.
Fight for admission OF women
ended at the convention here in Sep
tember after a bitter fight Board
win work out details of organization
work among women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
MENTAL WARD IS
READY FOR Use
First Patients to Be Re-
ceiyed Thursday.

City councilmen and other city OF.
f1cials today inspected the new psy-
copathic ward at city hospital.
Patients will be received begin
ming Thursday. marking the end Of
the practice Of holding mental pa
TENTS in the county Jail until they
are committed to State institutions
The ward win care for sixteen men
and seven women. Eight individual
rooms have been provided for vio-
lent patients. Six patients are ex-
pected Thursday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE
Pauline Frederick Granted Separa
tion From Third Husband.

BIZ Tisaes Special
LOS ANGELES, jan 7.-Pauline
Frederick, stage and screen actress,
has been granted divorce from DIR.
Charles Rutherford, Seattle physil
clan.
When Miss Frederick, whose true
name was given as Beatrice Ruther-
ford, appeared in court Tuesday she
was heavily .veiled. She testified
that less than year after her mar
riage to Rutherford, her third hus-
band, he deserted her. The suit was
not contested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
MASONS INSTALL MASTER
Walter E. Wagner Heads Irvington
Lodge--CeremOny Postponed.

Walter e. Wagner was installed
as master of Irvington Masonic
Lodge Tuesday night in ceremonies
which had been postponed from Dec.
29, due to his illness. He succeeds
j. Willard Cordrey. William s.
Campbell took the position Of senior
warden and Ernest f.. Kroencke,
junior warden.
More than 200 members attended
the ceremony and a banquet follow
ing. Clarice Adams, a past master
of the lodge, spoke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
EARTHQUAKE RECORDED
Tremors Shown ON Harvard Instru-
ment-Lasted Fifteen Seconds
Ru yru;tsd Press

Bg United Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. An
earth tremor of fifteen seconds du-
ration was recorded at the Harvard
seismograph station beginning at
S:07 a. m. today, university autkori-
ties announced.
The quake, reported very severe"
in some places. was felt in Boston,
Salem and other eastern cities Of
Massachusetts. At SomeryiIIe peo-
pie fed from their houses.
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DUFF WILL TAKE STAND
win Tell Story Of Fatal Fight
After Hazing.
~ United Press

By United Press
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, JAM L.
William Duff, II. high school stu
dent on trial for nlanslaughter in
connection with the death of Ray
mond Morris, 1s, viii take the stand
in his own defense, his attorneys an
nounced today.
Morris met death In a clash be-
tween high school students after a
hazing last fall.
Three other youths under indict-
ment III connection with the death
or Morris are held awSaiting out
come of the trial of DuM L,efore the
charges against them area PRESSED
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FIVE HURT IN CRASH
Two Coaches and Baggage Car
Plunge Over Bank.
q nnlted preaa

BH United Press
GROSS. Mich, Jan. Five per
sons were injured-none believed Sc
riously-when two coaches and :
baggage car left the rails and
plunged over twenty-foot embank.
ment eight miles west of here to-
day.
Among the injured were r. j. Nc
Cam, Minneapolis: James Encg,
Minneapolis. and A. L. Bodway,
HermansviIle, Mich.
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INDEPENDENTS TO MEET
Party VIII Name State 0fncers
Tuesday Night.

National Independent party OF In
diana will hold its annual meeting at
8 p. m. Tuesday at the English Ho.
tel to name a State chairman. sec
retary and treasurer and eorsanize
the State committee
John Zahn, national chairman, to-
day announced these candidates for
chairmen: D. L. Campbell, Il G..
Simmons, Wiley j. Roninger. all Of
Indianapolis; H. Earl Brown, Frank
lin; r. N. Fancher, Rising Sun, and
Frank Knopp, Gas City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
BOARD FIRES CLERK
Henry A. HoIlingsworth Not Right
With Administration, Report.

Henry A. Hollingsworth, clerk in
the board Of safety Office, has been
discharged by the board Following y
closed conference between the board
and Mayor Shank. Incompetency
was charged, although Hollings-
worth, a precinct committeeman in
the Fourteenth ward, was said not to
be fright" with the city administra-
ton. Hollingsworth is understood to
have a job in the county auditors Of
fee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
SALOON DAY SURvIvALS
That's What Drinking congressman
Are, Wheeler Says.
Bv Times Special

BIZ Times SD6ctGt
WASHINGTON, Jan. Drink.
ing Congressman are survivals OF
the old saloon days, Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel Of the Anti
Saloon League. declared in a harsh
denunciation OF liquor parties in Of
fetal Washington today.
Congress cannot expect the peo.
pie to respect the law when the law
makers themselves are violators,
wheeler said in commenting on the
the divorce action brought by Con-
gressman Frank Scott of Michigan
against his wife.
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GARBAGE MAN SOUGHT
Police Told Home Entered and Wom-
an Attacked.

Police today were seeking a
pseudo garbage collector
Robert Evans, 112 E. Ohio ST., re-
ported the mani, posing as such,
forced his way into his home, while
he was away, and attacked his wife.
He said she finally wrested his hand
from her mouth and screamed and
the man fed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
INVESTMENT MESSAGE
Motograph Boosts Movement for
Safer Stock Buying.

The movement for safer invest
ments is being helped by the Silent
Orator, photograph on the Merchants
Heat and Light Company building.
This weeks message:
Twenty-Five milllan dollars lost to
Indiana investors yearly through
worthless stocks. Help save this
vast sum to legitimate business. Be
fore you invest, investigate. Ask
your employer. yoar banker or the
Better Business Bureau to investi-
gate for YOU. Make 1875 safe for
Investors,
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AND TRUCK
CRASH; TWO DIE
Flying Low, Landing Gear
Becomes lntangIed.

B United Press
DAYTON. Ohio, Jan. Two men
were killed when an Army airpIane
crashed into the motor truck on
which they were riding at Wright
field today. The dead are Leon c.
Harness and Paul Long, field en-
ployes.
Lieut.. E. Fl. Barks6ale, pilot OF
the plane. and George Althoff, OBJ
server, escaped with minor Injuries.
The plane was flying low over the
Wilbur Wright field speed course
when the landing gear caught on
the truck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
TRUSTEE SESSION OPENS
Annual Meeting Of Township Men at
Statehouse.

The annual meeting oS Indiana
township trustees opened today in
the Senate chamber, Statehouse.
The forenoon was confined to rou-
tine business matters. The legisla-
tive committee and officers were to
be named late today.
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opened a frozen
window and lift
ed them to the
front porch roof.
She climbed out
after them and
screamed for help.
Another daughter, ,
Miss Doris Smith,
Is, believes Fate
helped her escape
the fire. For the
first time in years,
S h Q S p e n t t h e
night away from
home. She was
vi sit in & a girl
friend.
The husband,
Ira Smith, was at
- A--..n.n
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Tells Of visit

The Shepherds visited his brother,
who was recovering from an attack
of ptomaine poisoning, for the first
time in seven years, the day before
his death and brought a gift Of fruit,
Justice Olson said.
The Shepherds remained at my
brothers home for several hours,
and just before they left Mr.. Shep-
herd was in the room with my
brother alone, with the door almost
closed, for some moments.
The Doctors death occurred the
day after Shepherd had called. He
became rapidly worse-we even
feared suicide at that time from poi
soning, because his illness had not
warranted such a change.
Recalls Mothers Death
Olson pointed out that Mrs. Nc
CHntoclx died shortly after the Shep-
herds Joined her. He said the burial
was so hurried that he refused to
act as a pail bearer.
Shepherd. who receives the bulk
of the fortune under the will left
by young McClintock, is in Albu-
quergue, N. Mex, for a rest. He
came here for Examination when the
atcClintock death probe started and
retu med a few days ago.
Attorney Robert H. Stollf repre-
senting Shepherd denounced the Oh
son testimony as "a vile insinua-
ton, and said action wouldsbe taken.
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Judge WiIrneth to Talk

City Judge Delbert o. Wilmeth
win address the Indianapolis Right
Way Club at p. M. Wednesday,
Jan. Is, in the Office of II. B.
Calkins, 5z5 Postal Station Bldg. The
club is comprised Of employees Of the
American Railway Express Com.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
FIRST APPEAL IS FILED
Huntington Man Seeks Ruling on
Obscene Literature.


First appeal from conviction on
charges Of selling obscene litera.
ture resulting from Statewide
campaign ordered a year ago by
u. S. Lesh, then attorney general,
was filed in Supreme Court today.
Charles r. Haller, attorney for
William Sundernan, Huntington,
news dealer, who was found guilty
by jury and fined SO and costs,
said the appeal was filed to test
whether the magazine which Sunder.
man sold was obscene.
Lesh, in a letter to all prosecutors
in the State. urged arrests be made
for selling a certain list of maga,
zines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
ELSIE NOW LAUNDRESs
Mrs. Sweetin Begins Thirty-Five-
Year Prison Term.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
JOLIET, III, Jan. Mrs. Elsie
Sweetin, convicted of completely in
poisoning of her husband, Wilford
Sweetin so that she might be free to
love her pastor. the Rev. Lawrence
M. Hight, today started a thirty
five-year career as laundress.
Mrs. Sweetin was brought to the
State penitentiary here late Tuesday.
She was assigned to the laundry,
where she will wash shirts and
socks. The Rev. Hight, sentenced to
life imprisonment, recently entered
a State penitentiary in southern
Illinois.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
PICK ATLANTA WARDEN
Idaho Prison Head Expected to Re
ceive Appointment.
Rn TInifad Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. Appoint
ment Of John Shook, warden OF the
Idaho penitentiary, as new warden
of the Federal Penitentiary at At
lanta is expected here today or
Thursday. M
Department of Justice officials to-
day said Shook was under serious
consideration for the post. Shook
recently conferred with Federal Of
ficials here and in Atlanta.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
Girl Awakens Brothers

Miss Carrie Smith, 16. daughter,
awakened her brothers. Ralph, s,
an9 4vailaca II
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
Second Jap
Article

William Philip Simms' second
article ON the Japanese sit
uation will be found on Page 3.
Sinns recently returned from
a tour Of our defenses in the
East. Read what he says about
them.
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SEARCH IS ON FOR GIRL
Only IA, She Leaves Note Saying She
Is Leaving City.

Police today were asked to search
for Helen Kiefer. IA, of 1O4s N.
Belle Yiey P1. Relatives said the
girl left home Tuesday night, Ieav-
ing nt,te saying she was leaving
the city and it was useless to try 70
get her to return home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
JUR|ST'S DEMAND
REEVES PROBE OF
ORPHANS DEATH
Olson Not Satisfied With
McClintock Investigation
Wants Brothers
Body Examined.
TELLS OF SUSPICIOUS
Wouldn't Act at Funeral Of
'BiIIy's' Mother Because
of Haste,
Ru Times Soeciol

Bg Times SDeciGl
CHICAGO. Jan. THE curtain,
almost down on the McClintock
death drama, has been yanked up
again by Chief Justice Harry Olson
of the Municipal Court, who insists
his brothers death also be investi-
gated.
Olsen said he was not satisfied
with the investigation into the death
of William McClintock, millionaire
orphan He wants the case con-
tinued and the body of his brother,
DIR. Oscar Olson. exhumed and ex-
amined for poison. DR.. Olson died
about three years ago.
The Iatterss death followed visit
by Mr.. and Mrs. William d. Shep-
herd, foster parents of McClintock.
Olson stated, at what was to have
been the final hearing in the Mcelin-
took case. The justice also said he
was suspicious Of the manner of the
death of the mother of young Nc
Clintock.
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Home Edition

nOMPLETE Radio Broad
~ casting Programs Ap-
pear in The Times Daily.
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Forecast

GLOUDY and unsettled to-
~ night with lowest temper
ature close to 80. Thursday fair
and somewhat colder.