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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-26
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BY new WIND
STORM I'm OHIO
Heavy Damage Done by
GaIes--Farmer Killed by
Flying Door.
BU United Press

Bu LnitEU IfbSS
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Feb. 26.-
Breaking out with new fury, violent
winds again swept the State during
the night and, according to reports
to the United Press today, consider
able damage was done.
One death was reported. Three
persons were injured.
The wind storm abated this
morning after attaining a terrific
velocity. One woman was seriously
injured here when a street sign
came crashing down upon her and
at London two girls were in
serious condition from injuries re-
ceived when an uprooted tree struck
them.
The winds tore through the
Miami valley and at Ludlow Falls,
near Dayton, NJ. Z. Spencer, 65, a
farmer, was killed when door,
ripped from q barn was hurled
against him.
Hundreds Of transmission line
poles III the Dayton region were
blown down and traction service be-
tween Dayton and Troy was
paralyzed when a score OF poles
were blown across the tracks.
In Columbus, the wind hurled tree
branches for blocks, uprooted poles,
shattered street lights, rocked
houses and tore down street signs.
Rivers continued to rise, although
no flood damage was feared.
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WOMEN take
UP fight ON
big MERGERS
Formation of FoodStuffS
Combines Opposed at
Meeting.

Help block the formation of the
foodstuffs corporations" was plea of
Mrs. William II. Hart. president of
the local branch of the Housewives
League today. "These threatening
mergers will stop competition. and
lack of competition means high
prices"
Mrs. Hart called a special meeting
of representatives Of Indianapolis
civic organizations this afternoon in
the Fletcher American Bank
directors room. An open discussion
Of the situation was held. Mrs.
Hart asked the representatives to
take back the message to their or
ganizations and take definite action
looking toward blocking the mergers,
which are being held up by the
Government pending investigation.
First war cries against the cor
tional headquarters Of the House
wives League. One Of the organiza-
tions is the $2,00O,00O Ward
Food Products Corporation, a baking
concern, and the other a 100000 900
national corporation in Wall St.,
also designed'to control foodstuffs.
Among the organizations sending
representatives to the meeting were:
Ctvics committee Of the Indianapolis
Local Council of Women, Commu-
nifty Welfare Department of the
Woman's Department Club, and
Federated Civic Clubs of Indian
apolis. County w. C. T. u, Central
w. G. T. u, Current Events Club,
Utni Dulci Club, Mail Carriers
Auxiliary, Auxiliary to the Brother
hood Of Railway Trainmen, Merid-
ian w. G. T. u, American Legion
Auxiliary, Marion County War
Mothers and the McGuffeyites.
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State Police ConfisCate
Barking Open Cut
outs.

r. TATE police officials,
~ through their drive on open
G cutouts, are helping to-
make the highways quiet for those
who dislike snortiug, barking mo-
tor vehicles.
Tin can sheiks," whose gasoline
chariots are equipped with trick
cutouts, are given their choice OF
going to court and taking fine or
bringing in the internal machine"
as an evidence Of good faith.
Many evidently have taken the
latter alternative, as more tnan a
hundred amplifying cutouts have
been conflscated this year by the
State police force, according to
Robert T. Humes, chief. Some Of
the cutouts present a grotesque
appearance when taken from the
automobiles.
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Defense OPENS
IN BIMBA Case
State Springs Surprise by
Resting Suddenly.

By United Press
BROCKTON, Mass. Feb 90
The defense opened its case today
in the trial of Anthony Bimba, the
Brooklyn editor, charged with violat-
ing Massachusetts, two century old
blasphemy law.
With more than twenty witnesses
ready, Defense Attorney Harry Hoff-
man hoped to prove the Puritan
statute conflicts with the State Con-
stitution.
The State sprung a surprise Thurs
day by resting its case after using
only nine of it's fourteen witnesses.
Attorney Hoffman expects to rest
his case late tomorrow. 1t was GER
tain that Bimba would testify.
The trial was enlivened Thursday
by Old Joe Green, giant Negro
evangelist and deacon in the Foot
wash Baptist Church.
Squeezing past the guards, he
ne announced;
II am a carpenter like Christ.
want to talk to Mr.. Bimba. I know
[ can make him believe in Cod"
Joe was ushered out
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to Representative Green. Iowa. Re.
publican, chairman Of tho House
Ways and Means Committee. which
drafted the measure.
Camera men then rushed I'd for
closeup and after they had taken
score OF pictures. tho President
arose abruptly and said.
That's enough now. II I let
you go on you would be hero all
day."\
General Satisfaction
There was general satisfaction
among the Republican and Demo.
cratic leaders who heard the scratch
OF Coohdges pen. as the measure
was agreed upon by tho rank and
file OF both parties
The measure marks a record
agreement among tho two parties on
major domestic legislation as we'll as
record for time OF passage. The
agreement between tho two parties;
however, probably will come to an
CTuTn 10 Page 2D
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BANK REPORTS
BONDS MISSING
Two $500 Certificates Are
Sought by Detectives.

Detectives today attempted to
solve the mysterious disappearanco
oof two $500 United States Treasury
certificates from the city Trust Com
pany.
c. Milton Kelley, manager, told
Officers Tooley and Schubert the
bonds were among those transferred
from the vault In the basement tc
the bond department cage WedneS
day. They we're not seen again.
Miss Catherine Lang described tho
persons who had been at the cage
window during tho day, ono OF whom
is suspected.
Kelley later saidi
II think we're on tho trail. II
might have been a misplacement.
We got a little clew here this morn
ing that might uncover them"
Kelley said they we're regular
treasury certificates. not $500 bills.
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Tho bill. elegantly embossed and
engraved. spent Thursday night az
the Treasury, where II was sent by
President Coolidge shortly after no
received II from Congress. Early
this morning it was returned 20 tho
White House. bearing Secretary
Melons official approval.
The ceremony OF afixinR the
Presidents calvin Coolidge" in hls
round scrawling hand was without
pretense, except that caused by pho.
tographers and motion picture
camera mon. Mr.. Coolidge waited
patiently until they told him they
were ready. -
Two Pens
He then picked up pen and
wrote his first name. IIe put down
the first pen, picked up another and
wrote Coolidge"
The President then handed the
first pen TO Senator Smoot, Repub.
lican, Utah, chairman OF the Senate
Finance Committee and the other
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WILL DEBATE
ON EVOLUTION
Greenwood viii Hear Two
Argue Question.

BIZ Times Special
GREENWOOD, Ind, Feb. 26.-
Evolution will be debated here Sun
day by the Rev. Millard F. Poland
and Douglass Robbins at a public
meeting in the community house.
The Rev. Poland will take the
affirmative side of the question::
Resolved that evolution, as pro-
gressive development, should be
taught in universities, colleges,
primary and secondary schools"
The debate will be the second of
a series. The first took place at
Shelbyville and third likely will be
engaged in soon at Cadle Taber-
nacle, Indianapolis, with the same
principals.
Judges here will be the Rev. X.
Palmer Miller, Franklin Presby-
terian Church; DIR. Roscoe Gilmore
Stott, Franklin author; Charles B.
Staff, Franklin attorney; Mrs. Mary
Tharpe Of Trafalgar and Mrs. Lillian
Tracy Wheatcraft Of Whiteland.
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GRADE CROSSINGS TO GO
Pennsylvania to Pay Half Cost Of
Moving Road.

Contract for elimination of two
dangerous grade crossings on State
Rd. 21 north of Richmond, entered
into by the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the State Highway Commission,
was ratified today by the public
service commission.
The railroad has agreed to bear
half the expense Of relocating 2.46
miles Of highway which now crosses
the railroad at two points. The re-
located highway will parallel the
railroad on the east. At the COM
mission it was said to be the first
time a railroad has agreed to share
in the cost of an actual road con-
struction.
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ORDER IN
BUS FIGHT ASKED
MEASLES ON INCREASE
One Hundred Per Cent More Cases
I'm State, Board Reports.

One hundred per cent increase in
the number of cases OF measles in
Indiana was reported today in the
weekly morbidity report OF the
State board of health, 1.025 cases
being reported from 272 health
stations in eighty-eight counties.
Only 592 cases were reported last
week OF this weeks cases. SSS
were in cities, and S45 of these in
Indianapolis. other communicable
diseases: Scarlet fever. 246 cases;
whooping cough. eighty-four cases;
chicken pix, eighty-one cases; In.
fluenza, seventy-nine cases; small
pox, sixty-nine cases diptheria,
twenty-one cases, and pneumonia,
seventeen cases.
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best coach that we can hnd." the
chairman said.
1--WE are on the point of building
a new athletic plant. and, of course,
we will want a man with character,
wisdom and force" he declared.
I'VE like Page. but 1t is unproflt-
able in any employment to keep a
man, no matter how good he is, II he
does not want TO stay" he added.
Resignation Conclusive"
The chairman said he supposed"
Pages verbal resignation lis con-
elusive"
A gentleman's agreement requir
ing six months notice makes the
resignation effective Sept. 1.
Page wanted 1t understood he has
not had trouble with the faculty. lie
would not state reasons for his &c
tion. 1t is known. however, that
some friction had developed between
the athletic director and board OF d.
rectors.
"If a written resignation is
wanted. that will be easy" said Pot.
IT want to get out as quietly as
possible with no great furore.
II have no other position in mind
at the present time"
Came I'm 1920
Page came tn Butler in 1920 from
Chicago University and has raised
Butler to a point Of prominence In
State, Middle West and even ma
tional collegiate sport circles.
Arthur V. Brown said Page must
file a written resignation and that
Page told him he would do so, max
ing 1t effective Sept. 1.
Asked why Page should wish to
sever his connection, Brown said;
"Oh, you know Pats n restless fell
low. He's been wanting a stadium
and a gymnasium, badly. These
things are coming along as fast as
possible"
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PLANS TO BUY TAR
Commission Opens Bids ON Repair
Materials, March IL

Bids will be opened by the State
highway commission March IL on
approximately $4,000 worth Of tar
and asphalt for us by the mainten-
ance department this year on hard
surfaced roads. Eleven different tar
preparations will be bought in barrel
and carload lots. The products will
be delivered to thirty-eight different
points in the State
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WINDS SUBSIDE HERE
Cloudy Weather to Remain Saturday,
Says Bureau Forecast.

After experiencing q night and
day of winds and gales, OF which
any sea coast town might have
been proud, Indianapolis today
settled back to the usual peaceful
calm of the Middle West.
Cloudy skies. which greeted the
city this morning, are due to con-
tinue tonight and Saturday, J. H.
Arm1ngton, meteorologist. said.
Temperature, "a at 7, should remain
about the same. The wind Thurs
day reached a velocity Of fifty miles
an hour several times. This morn
ing 1t registered fifteen miles an
hour.
The high wind Thursday nearly
wrecked the confectionery of J. D.
Hall, 2002 Hillside Aye. Police as
sisted Hall in bracing the building
against further gales and he con-
tinued business.
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BUTLER TO ACCEPT
PAGES RESIGNATION
Athletic Director Quits Sept. Board Chairman Says
Best Coach We Can Find Will Be Secured.

Butler University directors will ac-
cept Pat Pages resignation as ath-
letic director. made verbally Thurs
day to Arthur V. Brown. head of the
directors athletic committee. It was
announced today by Hilton u.
Brown, board chairman.
Butler will proceed to engage "the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-26
Measure, Exempting 100000 Little
Fellows" From Paying Federal
Levies, Is Signed.
EVENT RECORDED BY MOVIES
Record for Enactment of Domestic
Legislation Established.

Br Press
WASHINGTON, Feb 26.-The $387OOOOOO tax reduction
BILL exemptng 100000 personsittle fellows who paid In
come taxes last yearrom filing or paying taxes this
year. is law
Surrounded by leaders Congress who the
through the House and Senate record time President Coolidge
at % today dipped pen in the White House ink and
signed the BILL assuring extensive for every class Of tax
payer this year.
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EDWARDS BR0ADCASTS
Charges PrOhibitiOnists Living in
False Paradise.

BIZ United PreSe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Prohi-
bitionists are living in FOOLS para
disc, Senator Edwards, New Jersey,
Democrat, declared in a radio speech
broadcast by station WRC Thursday
night.
He said that while Governor of
New Jersey he found that ''the Anti
Saloon League carried it's criminal
and nefarious work to such ends
that it tried to unlawfully influence
judicial appointments.
Good and bad liquor is obtainable
not fifteen minutes walk from the
White House and the Capitol, he
said.
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WAR STARTED ON BUMPS
Mile Square Streets to BE SmOothed
Up by City Engineer.

The city Will wage warfare against
ohuckholes and bumps in the mile
square. beginning Tuesday, George
G.. Schmidt. city engineer. announced
today.
Schmidt said the. municipal as
phalt plant Will begin operation
Tuesday. but added that there is no
need for additional employees.
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What New Tax
Law Means
BV United Press

UU IUTTfU TT0R9
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-
Under the SS37,S11 900 Federal
tax reduction bill, which be-
came a law today. a married
man with no children or other
dependents will get income tax
reductions as shown In this
table:
Income. New Law. Present
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FIRE IN U. S. CAPITOL
Blaze in Kitchen Extinguished With
out Damage.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-A fire
broke out today in the kitchen of
wing of the Capitol building. Fire
engines were summoned but the
blaze was extinguished five minutes
after It broke out.
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FIRE LOSS IS $15o,ooo
Packing Company Burns at Summit
vile, Ind.
RU Unifqd press

BIZ United Press
SUMMITTV1LLE, Ind. Feb. 26.-
The plant Of the Summittville Can.
ming Company was destroyed by fire
early today with a loss estimated at
$780, 900.
Starting near a stove in the office
Of the plant the flames were famed
by high wind and were soon be-
yond control.
T1remen from Alexandria helped
save nearby buildingA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-26
N EW SITE
PURCHASE
is LIKE
School Board Calls Special
Meeting-Shortridge
Change Expected.
INJUNCTION THREATENED
Citizens Oppose Move to
Switch Location.

Purchase by condemnation
proceedings of a tract of land
on Forty-Sixth ST., between
Central Ave and Washington
Blvd. as a site for the new
Shortridge high school, was ex-
pected at a specially called
meeting of the school board this
afternoon.
The meeting was called this morn
ing after announcement that north
side property owners may file an In
junction to prevent the board from
selling the site on Th!rty-Fourth st.
now held for the new Shortridge.
To FOrestalI Injunction
Board members planned to start
proceedings for gaining possession
Of the tract to forestall the :njunc-
ton move, 1t was thought.
Theodore F. Vonnegut. school
board PRECEDENT, refused 10 reveal
purpose Of the meeting to The
Times.
The Forty-Sixth St. site will cost
the board about 100000.
The move against the school
at ThirtyFourth and Meridian St.
hro % 1nfa ,Jf,a 70 eft
crystallized overnight the ire of resi-
dents in that section being reused
over the boards apparent indiffer-
ence to suggestions made at a spe-
cial meeting Thursday night.
The legal move, IL taken. will be
made following mass meeting with
in the next few days, 1t was said
before the board Thursday night,
said he knew that 1t was not the
feeling Of q "few people" to have
the school built on the present site,
but was the sentiment Of most of
the property holders"
Thomas Carson, also before the
board Thursday. today said the
school board has actually led the
residents of this district to believe
the site now held is too small, when.
In reality, and by figures. it can
be shown to be more adequate than
the Forty-Sixth st. Site"
1t was pointed out the Thirty
Fourth st. site will accommodate
children living as far south as Six
teenth St. and as far north Of Fiji
tieth st.
Committee Reports
The Shortridge High School Par
ent Teachers Association Advisory
Committee and several groups of
citizens living near the new Short
ridge site urged the board to build
the school there without delay.
The advisory committee members,
Hoffman. James M. Ogden and
Emsley w. Johnson, presented ten
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Exemptions for dependents
are s400 each from the gross
income. The tax rate is 1 Il per
cent for the first $4,000. 3 per
cent for the next $4,000 OF tax
able income. and 8 per cent on
all over $4,000. Surtax rates
start at per cent after S10,-
900 and range up to 20 per
cent on 100000.
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TOLL GOES TO TEN
South Counts Losses After Wide
Flung Tornado.

By United Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 26.-The
storm-torn countryside from the gulf
to Illinois awoke today to repair it's
property damage and bury it's ten
dead.
Playthings Of the storm hung in
tree tops and on roofs as grim re-
ninders of the havoc! OF the ten
dead and scores injured, all were
tenant farmers or members of their
families.
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GYPSY KING DEAD

BD United Press
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 26.-Steve
John, 65, patriarchial gypsy king
of America, dropped dead at his
winter quarters" here today.
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Delay Granted

~ LHtfcd Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Sec.
retary of the Treasury Melon an.
nounced today that persons with
ncomes exceeding $1,000 win be
given until May 10 10 file their
tax returns, instead Of March Is.
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WOUNDS FOUR, FLEES
Ex-Convict Shoots Girl, Escapes
Police.
Be- Hritea Preas

UU IWITFW TTFHT
OWENSBORo, KY, Feb. ae.-Thia
portion OF Daviess County was ter
ror1zed tdday while an ex-convict
who last night shot and wounded
Mary King. his former sweetheart,
and shot down three OF four po-
licemen who tried TO arrest him.
remained at large.
John Milburn. the ex.convict, 40
years old, ia believed 10 he demented.
lie was shot through the hand by
one OF the patrolmen when they
cornored him in his homo, but eas
capped after wounding the ehroo C0
ficerps
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GAS FIRM
TO SPEN d
S1,3o5,00o
Utility Plans for Larger City
in Years Construction
Program.
NEW PRODUCT IN JUNE
SuIphate of Ammonia Plant
to Be Completed.

With gas rates cut and half
the back dividends paid up, ex-
pansions and improvements
costing $1,3O5,OOO either are
under construction or planned
for the year by the Citizens Gas
\ Company as their part of the
, move to make Indianapolis a
million population city.
G. l. Kirk, general manager, said
the company expects the city to
grow annually at least as much as
in 1925, and already has ordered pipe
to duplicate last years squirt of lay
ing gas mains in new home districts.
Mains Cost $4,000
Purchase of IT'S, 900 feet of pipe for
mains has been made Last year the
company put $4,000 feet of mains
under city streets. This included
one high-pressure main to supply
new factories,
Cost of this work will be be-
tween 81 and $3.50 a foot, totaling
approximately $440, 900.
The company plans s40o, 900 worth
of remodeling at its Prospect st.
coal-handling plant, and $115,000
worth of additions to its coke screen
ing plants at the same place.
Installation Of additions at the
screening plants will make 1t pos
eible to separate flve grades Of coke.
Only four grades are common. But
this utility has found 1t can use
plain coke dust, or breeze" for it's
fuel needs, and sell the pea size,
left after the Industrial large
chunks, egg size and nut grades,
have been screened out
The new sulphate of ammonia
plant at the Prospect st. branch
probably will be completed June J.,
at a Cost of $350,000.
This plant will turn out an ex-
cellent granulated fertilizer that can
be drilled into the ground with a
|. small grain planter at the same time
the farmer plants wheat, oats or bar
ley. The product, except for color,
resembles granulated sugar. 1t has
a. brownish hue.
Profit to Gas Users
It's manufacture is a result of the
wartime discovery that liquor
ammonia, from which aqua ammonia
Is made, can be bottled out Of the
air. Getting 1t from the atmos-
phere is cheaper than utilizing the
ammonia properties which are by
products of coke making. Faced
with this competition the coke
makers discovered they could make
good fertilizer, containing a large
percentage Of nitrates. The Citizens
Gas is spending $S50,0o0 to enter
this industry with the idea of
ultimately passing at least part Of
the profit to city gas users by re-
ducfng rates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-26

The Susquehanna river was prac-
tically clear at Columbia, following
the breaking of the ice jam that for
a few hours threatened to flood the
town.
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FLOODS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Mills Closed by High Water-Re-
cede at Columbia.

BN United Press
PHILADELPHIA Feb. 26-F1ood
conditions in the Schuylki1 river has
resulted in closing of a number Of
mills in the Mananyacukuk district
here. Easements of the factories
were flooded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-26
Butler Game on
Air Tonight

TIMES will broadcast
the Butler Wabash bas-
ketball game direct from the
exposition building at the State
Playground tonight. The
game will be broadcast over
WFRM, Merchants Heat and
Light Company. Blythe q.
Hendricks, Indiana's favorite
basketball announcer, Will be
at the microphone.
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Forecast

ID ARTLY cloudy tonight
i and Saturdays not much
change in temperature; lowest
tonight near freezing.
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Home Edition

MIR. FIX1T is on the job for
W1 Times readers. He looks
up matters at City Hall.