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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 227
GRAVEL POURS INION ENTOMBED EXPLORER
FLOYD COLLINS, 35, HELD PRISONER IN'CAVE 300 FEET UNDERGROUND BY HUGE BOULDER, WHICH IS CRUSHING
HIS FEET, PLEADS TO HAVE LEG AMPUTATED—FATHER WILL PAY SSOO TO COMPETENT SURGEON
Bv United Press
CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 2.—While Lee Collins
was appealing over telephone to Governor W. J.
Fields for aid in rescuing his son, Floyd, imprisoned
300 feet underground in a cave near here since Fri
day morning, a roe,cue crew from Louisville arrived.
Machinery brought 100 miles by train was
loaded in heavy trucks and rushed over the rough
mountain roads to the pit where Collins is fighting
for his fife. Flat on his face in a pasageway so
narrow no one can reach his foot which is pinned
under a huge boulder, Collins is fighting to keep his
MANAGER TIGHT
, IS CARRIED TO
STATEASSEMBLY
Politicians Have Bill Intro
duced to Repeal Law for
Business Government
\ Form,
MOVEMENT GOES AHEAD
Luncheon Club Heads to
Discuss Plan Thursday
Evening.
The fight by politicians against the
proposed city manager form of gov
ernment for Indianapolis was carried
to the Legislature today with the
introduction of a bill in the House of
Representatives calling for repeal of
the law under which Indianapolis,
could adopt either the city manager
or the commission form.
The bill was introduced by Repre
. sentatlve Claremont H. Smith of In
* dianapolis and J. Glenn Harris of
Lake County. The bltl provide*
merely for the repeal of the 1921 act
under which cities should determine
their form of government.
Meanwhile, plans, are going for
ward for a study of the plan by var
ious Indianapolis civic organiza
tions.
McGrath Calls Meeting
A meeting of presidents and rep
resentatives of various Indianapolis
luncheon clubs has been called for
Thursday at 6 p. m. at the Chamber
of Commerce. The meeting was
called by Blaine McGrath, president
of an inter-club organization, for
the purpose of discussing the pro
posed city manager plan.
A meeting of persons interested in
the plan will be held on the thir
teenth floor of the Severln Tuesday
at 8 p. m. This meeting was called
by James W. Mellon, attorney, for
the purpose of forming an organiza
tion -to get the movement under
way.
The plan will be discussed at the
lupcheon of the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board at the Chamber of
Commerce Wednesday.
Dr. Frank Garland of Dayton,
Ohio, who was a member of the
Dayton council under the city man
ager plan, will speak.
Shank Gets Response
"Indianapolis certainly is wide
awake on the necessity of doing
away with the present form of city
l government and substituting the city
} manager or commission form,”
Mayor Shank said today.
"My office has been swam pel
with telephone calls and visits from
persons wanting to get behind the
movement and sign or circulate peti
tions. The thing that is most en
couraging to me is the fact that tire
support comes from every element of
our citizens, men and women, busi
ness, professional and laboring men,
business and social organizations. I
know from personal experience that
the present idea is all wrong.
The mayor was impatient of any
delay in getting petitions prepared
and he directed Police Capt. John
Zener, attached to the city control
ler’s office, who has been, placed In
charge, to see that the printing was
rushed as rapidly as possible.
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DON’T LET POLITICS
CONFUSE YOU!
AN EDITORIAL t ,
| a IN EFFORT obviously is being made by politicians to con-
I f use the issue in the discussion of the proposed city man
ager form of government for Indianapolis. The idea apparently
is either to cause the voters to become so confused that they will
not know what it is all about, or —as appears more likely—to
further the ends of a group of politicians.
i Mayor Shank is insisting on circulating a petition for a
commission form of city government for Indianapolis. It is re
ported that he wishes to head the commission.
. THE COMMISSION FORM OF GOVERNMENT IS NOT
THE CITY MANAGER FORM AND THE TWO SHOULD
NOT BE CONFUSED. >
It is the CITY MANAGER form and not the commission
form that is proving successful in other big cities.
The CITY MANAGER form of government provides for
the election of seven coun'cilmen who would EMPLOY a city
manager, an expert in business affairs, to conduct the business
of the city. He could be discharged by the council or he could
be employed for an indefinite period.
The people, through the council, would have a direct check
on the manager •and his activities.
Under the commission form, as advocated by politicians for
political purposes, five commissioners would be elected and they
would elect one of their number mayor. He would serve until
the end of his term and then he would gc out of office. It would
be the old political system over again.
The com mission form has not been-found practical for
cities as large as Indianapolis.
The present movement is an attempt on the part of politi
tians to ride into power on the wave of sentiment for city man
ager government.
Petitions will be circulated for both forms.
If you are for the CITY MANAGER form of government,
be sure not to sign a petition ealling for the COMMISSION
form.
If you do, you will be playing into the hands of the politi
cians.
. Suspense
Leaky Grips Checked at
Station Cause More
Agony Than Income
Tax or Cross-Words.
By ROSS H. GARRIGUS t
-|OLKS with suspicious bag
gage die a thousand deaths
* these days when their grips
and suitcases are handled in a
hurry at checking rooms. You can
take the word of Alvin H. Boese,
513 N. Liberty St., checker at the
Union Station, for it.
“A grip 'leaked* the other day,”
he said. “I opened it and there
was the prettiest prewar outlay
you ever saw. But I had broken
one bottle clean off at the neck.
When the owner came back, I
apologized.
‘‘Pretty good stuff,” I told him.
“ ‘Oh, no, that isn’t what you
think it is,’ he replied nervously.
‘That’s some medicine I’m taking
back to Kentucky for some sick
horses.’ ”
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Nearly a thousand grips and par
cels are checked every day where
Boese works. Out of this, an av
erage of one person forgets his
ticket.
"He comes rushing up. all fussed
to death,” said Boese. "Goes
through all his pockets again; gets
red in the face, stammers and then
says:
“ ‘Why, why, I lost my ticket.’ ”
"We ask him when he brought
the bag. We store according to
time, you see. Then we ask hitj
to describe it. After that we haul
forth the bags until he identifies
one and make him tell what’s in
it.”
Boese said he never had lost a
bag nor given one out to the wrong
person.
I asked him about brides and
grooms.
Bcese grinned.
“Believe me.” ho said, “never
trust your best friend at that
time. Some guys will give their
baggage checks to their friends.
When they do, oh boy. Rice has
been spilled here many a time.”
Frozen Milk on Street
Collision of a milk truck wi*h an
automobile driven by E. T. trfreen'
of Wbft town, resulted in a pond of
frozen milk at Vermont ,and Dela
ware Sts. today. Roland push, 5114
head out of the gravel pouring from the roof.
Upon his repeated appeal, his father has
offered a reward of SSOO to the surgeon who will
amputate his foot.
Before this can be accomplished it will Be
necessary for the rescue crew to cut away the walls
of the passageway surrounding him.
Workings rapidly as he can, the one man able
to reach Collins in his living tomb 300 feet under
ground, can barely keep the falling gravel from suf
focating Collins.
HEARING IS HHD
ON DELAWARE Sf.
Taxpayers Before Board to
Oppose Improvement.
Delegations of taxpayers from the
north side opposed Improvement of
Delaware St.' from Twenty-Second
to Twenty-Ninth Sts. before the
board of works today. The hear
ing was on approval the benefit
and damage rolls for the work,
which Includes removal of jogs at
Twenty-Second and Twenty-Ninth
Sts., and condemnation of ground
for approaches to the new Fall
Creek bridge at Delaware St.
Damages, amounting to $96,587
have been assessed against the dis
trict bounded by Thirty-Eighth.
Pennsylvania and Alabama Sts. and
Ft. Wayne Ave/
One of the principal points of at
tack was the proopsed payment of
about SBO,OOO for filling station
property at Twenty-Second St. for
which the Sinclair Refining Com
pany is said to have paid about
SIO,OOO.
G. GROUNDHOG VS. WEATHER MAN
By GASTON GROUNDHOG
jrp jHE ancient Persian wise
j | I crackers used to say, "As
J soon as you get famous,
some bozo tries to band you a
kick in the slats!”
You tell ’em. Castor —it’s the
oil!
I’m chief weather forecasting
groundhog and my father was
before me. But do I get the
beer and skittles on a silver
salver?
Not by the distance between
beer and near-beer!
Today is Candlemas. I shinny
from my hole to stage the an
nual weather prediction act. A
Score One for Porcine Prophet; He Glimpsed His Shadow
r-JTIASTON GROUNDHOG
\j. played a mean trick on
| " his old enemy J. H. Arm
i ingt'gn, the weather man, today.
the advance indication.
I war i taat u and 1,8 ° toudy
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEB. 2,1925.
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Capable, Popular and Beautiful
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LEFT TO RIGHT: MISSES IRMA ULRICH, HELENA SIELOFF AND LORENE WHITHAM.
mNDIANAPOLIS girls are
leading in the contest to
decide the most beautiful,
most capable and most popular
students at Butler University.
FATHER OFFERS LIFE FOR SON
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Tears Streaming From His Face and Shoulders Shaking With Emotion, Aged Parent
of Convicted Man Asks to Take Offspring’s Place in
Hangman's Noose.
Bv United Press
C CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—A father today offered to
put his head In the hangman’s noose to save
his son from death.
Tears streaming down his face, his shoulders shak
ing with emotion. Thontss Scott, aged father of Rus
sell Scott, convicted of murder, turned to newspaper
men in the court of Judge Thomas J. Lynch and
cried:
“I am willing to take the place of my son on the
scaffold. He’s just entering the threhold of life. I am
BUDGET MAKING SLOW
Committee Holds Conference With
Jackson— Bill Is Late.
The State budget advisory com
mittee today held a formal confer
ence with Governor Ed Jackson con
cerning . final recommendations of
the committee and of the board of
accounts on budget requests of
about eighty State departments.
It Is understood that the data con
tained in the requests and; the
board’s recommendations is being
arranged so- that it can be included
in a bill to be presented to Legisla
ture some time!' this week. The
budget has not been formally pre
sented t Jackson.
It Is understood the conference
was for consideration of the prepa
ration of the budget in bill form. Ac
cording to the statutes, Jackson was
supposed to have presented the
budget requests to Legislature last
Saturday. *
MOREBUILDING liTCITY
Permits for Month Show Decrease
in Valuation.
Seven hundred seventy-one per
mits for construction work valued
at $944,526 were issued in January,
according*to Frances F. Hamilton,
building commissioner. This was
gain of 137 permits, but a loss of
about $70,000 In valuation of build
ings as compared with January,
1924.
big crowd of scientists, poli
ticians, bootleggers and what-not
is around to lamp the perform
ance.
Well, the sun is shining. I see
my shadow. So I ducks back into
ifeaaiftMYOUft SYSTEM It IH jjl
the house. Any sap knows that
means six weeks more of winter
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(or sraoggyj tha t the fabled
prophet could romp all day in the
open without catching a glimpse
of hie ethereal self. % ' •
But a few minutes before 11
The shell rock pours in continuous streams
upon Collins, who lies on his face in a narrow
crevice.
Seated on Collins ’ back using blow torches and
chisels men have been chipping for sixty hours at
the flint rock which holds Collins prisoner. Flake
by flake the rock is being hollowed out above Col
lins’ feet.
The imprisoned man warexploring a long wind
ing cavern near Mammoth Cave in hope of discov-
Miss Irma Ulrich, 2519 Win
throp Ave.. leads in the capabil
ity contest; Miss Helena Sieloff,
in popularity, and Miss Lorene
old: I have worked out my life there will be nothing
left for me if my son dies. Let me take his place.”
Russell was convicted of killing Joseph Maurer, a
drug store clerk, during a hold-up here several months
ago. Defense attorneys today appealed for anew trial
and Judge Lynch postponed action to Feb. 14, “only
because a human life is at stake.”
Scott, 30, first sentenced to death on a plea of
guilty, was granted a trial when his attorney begged
on his knees for the life of his client. Later a jury
found him guilty and the sentence was reaffirmed.
Scott at one time was reputed to be a millionaire.
‘DEATH DRIVER’
FUNDJSFAVORED
Traffic Measures Also to Be
Before Council Tonight,
Resolution favoring offering a re
ward for capture of reckless motor
ists who injured or kill persons
probably will be adopted by city
council tonight. Establishment of a
permanent reward fund, suggested
by Councilman Heydon W. Buch
anan, Is not permissible under the
law and the council probably will be
content with going on record as fa
voring the reward idea.
Ordinance requiring installation of
safety gaes at E. NeV York St. and
the Monon and Big Four Railroads
will come up. Action was postponed
at the last council meeting because
of protests of railroad represent
atives.
The bill prohibiting center park
ing in Kentucky Ave. between Wash
ington and Maryland Sts., and all
parking in Illinois St., between Ohio
and Washington; Washington be
tween Pennsylvania and Illinois, and
Pennsylvania between Ohio and
Washington Stas., will be up for
final action. ;
The crowd aU yells, “Atta boy,
Gaston, you know your berries!"
Then up steps a big palooka
from the weather bureau. I don’t
like his face, but his face is a
thing of beauty and a joy forever
compared to what he says.
“Act your age!” says he.
"Since when did your shadow
have anything to do with the
weather? It’s all a matter of
pressure areas, neutro-dynami
cogic barometric readings, ocean
currents and reports from Wall
Street. ...
“Your syntem ain’t worth a
second-hand door key. It ain’t
scientific!"
the clouds and made Gaston hike
for cover.
Armington predicted consider
to 1# degrees. Cold will cctstinu*
Whitham. 3868 Ruckle St., in
beauty.
More than 600 girls are entered
in che contests.
POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN
Increase of 6.22 Per Cent Made
During January.
Indianapolis postoffice receipts
for January made a gain of 6.22 per
cent over January of 1924, accord
ing to Postmaster Robert H. Bryson.
Receipts for January this year were
$328,775.28 and for’ January. 1924,
$309,510.58. Increase waa $19,264.75.
MYSTERY TO RALSTON
U. S. Senator Out of Touch With In
diana Politics.
The mazes of Indianapolis and In
diana politics are a deep, unfathom
able mystery to United States Sena
tor Samuel M. Ralston.
"It is all too much for me,” said
the Senator, who arrived Saturday
and will remain until the end of the
week. He will speak to Democratic
editors of the State Thursday eve
ning.
"I am entirely out of touch with
the local situation, but from all I
hear there have been some exciting
times,’* he said.
Candy Jobber “Broke”
Aloyslus A. Humphrey, South
Bend, Ind., <andy jobber, filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in
Federal Court today. His assets were
listed at $603 and debts at $3,663.62.
"AH right,” says I. “Go about
and try to crab my act. Maybe
what 1 do ain’t based on the
doldrums in Western Basutoland
and the President’s message to
Congress, but I don’t notice any
one pinning a rose on you for
cracking the old apple nine times
out of ten.
“All of us make mistakes, my
guess is just as good as yours.
What’s more, people are just as
apt to believe It.
"If you’re such a wise Bran
nigan, here’s one you can’t laugh
off. Predict the weather one
month in advance, like I do. - ’
That stopped him.
through Tuesday, higher temper
ature coming Tuesday night.
The predicted cold wave for
SuntTfcy night failed to material.
Entered a* Second-class Matter at Postoffice,
Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.
ering anew passageway into the caverns. Three
hundred feet under the earth, his foot loosened
earth and the fall followed.
He lay for twenty hours face down in the icy
mud before friends, alarmed at his nonappearance,
entered the passageway and found him.
Collins is weakening and it is not believed he
can survive the day.
He pleads that his leg be cut off.
“Anything, anything—just get me out of
here,” he begs.
illiniN BUDGET
MEASURE TO EUMMATE
SPECIAL FOODS OFFERED
Bill Also Introduced in House to
Make Governor’s Financial Ad
visory Commission Permanent
Body With Salaries.
Administration bills to throw all but a few of the State
moneys now kept in separate funds into the general fund and
to make the Governor’s budget advisory commission a per
manent salaried body, were introduced in the Indiana House of
Representatives today by Representative Pittenger, Selma.
The permanent eommision bill contemplates a body which,
with subordinate employes, shall serve in somewhat the same
capacity as the Federal budget director, the office made famous
by General Dawes, vice president-elect.
The general fund bill provides for
placing in one general fund all funds,
licenses, fees and other revenue-col
lected from any and all sources by;
boai’d. of registration and ex
amination of nurses.
State board of medical registration
and examination.
Indiana board of pharmacy.
Affected by BUI
State board of dental examination.
State board of education.
State Board of registration and ex
amination in optometry.
State board of embalmers.
State board of registration of en
gineers and land surveyors.
State board of certified account
ants.
The bill also provides for these
moneys to go into the general fund;
All taxes collected by the State.
All receipts from book3 and docu
ments.
All fees from gasoline tax.
All earnings from State industrial
school workshops and Industrial
School for the Blind.
All moneys collected by the adju
tant general from sale of military
property.
Highway Funds
All receipts, collections and assess
ments of the State highway commis
sion from any source.
All fees collected by State mine
inspector.
All fees collected by State fire
marshal.
All fees and receipts of the con
servation department.
All fees collected by the public
service commission.
All other moneys not specifically
exempted collected in whatsoever
manner by the State or its agents.
All balances in all special funds as
of Oct. 1, 1925.
The bill permits these special
funds to remain in existence:
Funds specially created by the
State constitution.
Funds held in trust by the State
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CARS CRASH DOWNTOWN
Interurban and Trolley Passengers
Shaken Up.
Passengers were shaken up when
an east bound E. Washington street
car crashed into the rear of a T. H.
I. & E. interurban from Richmond
at Delaware and Washington Sts.,
today.
Police %aid the city car had the
right of way, but the interurban
was turned Into Delaware St. by
Motorman Henry Boles of Cambridge.
City, Ind.. so that the rear end
swung uot into the path of the city
car.
- Both cars were badly damaged.
MAGNUS FILES CONTEST
Charges Senator SchaU Was Elected
By Unlawful Means.
Bu Vmted Pm*
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Charg
ing “unlawful means and corrupt
methods,” Senator Magnus Johnson
Minnesota farm-laborite, today filed
with the Senate a contest against
election of Thomas D. Schall, his Re
publican opponent.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
Forecast
CLOUDY and considerably
colder tonight with lowest
temperatures 10 to 15. Tuesday
fair with rising temperatures.
TWO CENTS
Thirty-Six
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eERRIN, Hi., Feb. 2.
The death toll from
'*Bl o o and y Williamson
County’’ hate wars now is
thirty-six.
The first of the battles was
in 1922—the Herrin massacre
—when twenty-two miners were
killed.
Since the start of the Klan
and anti-Klan fighting in 1923
fourteen persons have been
slain.
INDIANA LAW
IS HELD LEGAL
U, S. Supreme Court Up
holds Hoosier Measure,
Bv United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Power of
States to enact laws prohibiting per
sons convicted of “infamous crimes”
from ever holding public office was
upheld today tfy the United States
Supreme Court.
The* court dismissed appeal from
decision of the Indiana Supreme
Court that Joseph O’Mara was ille
gally elected to city council of Terre
Haute, Ind., because he had been
convicted in Federal Court of a con
spiracy to obstruct voting and sen
tenced to the penitentiary. The court
said it had no jurisdiction over the
question. *
O’Mara. combating suit of his op
ponent. H. C. Crampton, contended
the Indiana law was an attempt at
ex-post facto legislation.
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