Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1921 — Page 8

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GERMAN KILLED FRENCH IN COLD BLOOD, CHARGE Witnesses Say Major Stalked Among Wounded Putting Them to Death. LEIPZIG, July I- There was a dramatic scene In the war criminals court today when a witness from Alsace testified that he had seen Major Benno ▼on erusius, who Is on trial charged with murder, shoot down wounded Frencn soldiers In cold blood. ‘‘That is a lie, I never tilled a human being in my life," shouted the accused officer, leaping to his feet. Ton Crcslus is on trial Jointly with Gen. Karl Stenger. Stenger was accused by France with giving orders to take no prisoners snd Ton Crusius was alleged to have put the orders Into effect. Both defendants denied that any sucn orders had been given. More than fifty witnesses, most of them from ADaca and Lorraine, were summoned to Leipzig t*> testify against the two Germans. The Alsatians have woven a strong net es testimony closely about both officers. One witness said he had seen von Cruslus with a revolver In his hand stalking among the wounded French soldiers on the battle field putting them to death. | The offenses with which the two Geerl mans are charged are alleged to have | taken place in the first four months of ■ the war when the French invaded GerIn;any and there was hard fighting In ■he mountains of Alsace and Lorraine. ■ A German army surgeon testified that Be had treated van Crusius in litis Tor B nervous' breakdown and that he beBsved the collapse was due to the strain Hnposed upon him by the orders of his Ten Crusius commanded a br gade i* Stenger s army. Stenger. a stern old Prussian and a typical German army officer, sat In court wearing his Iron Cross and staring straight ahead. He showed no sign of emotion as testimony was given that he had ordered wounded French soldiers .to be killed. COURT RESTORES BABY TO PARENTS Grandparents Lose in Suit Against Local Couple. Po=ciai to The Times. SHELB-VVIT.IE, Ind . July I.—The custody of Edwin Robb, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Robb, Indianapolis, was awarded today to the parents of the child by Judge Alonzo Blair in announcing decision on the petition filed in juremle court here attempting to have the boy declared a public ward on account of alleged neglect by his parents. The ruling of the court brought to an end a strongly contested case between Mr. and Mrs. Robb and her parents, Mr. and Mrs John Clauser of this city, over the custody of the boy. The petition was filed by Mr. and Mrs. Clauser at the time Mr. and Mrs. Robb were remarried here several months ago, following their separation and divorce over a year ago. At the time Mrs. Robb was granted a divorce she was also given the custody of the son, who lived with her at the home of her parents. When they were remarried the grandparents attempted to retain the custody of the baby and filed the petition which prevented the parents takiDg the child to their new home at Indianapolis. Since the filing of the petition the boy has been in the custody of its grandparents. 11!-feeling between the paren-s of Mrs. Robb and her bus band is said to have caused the separation of the couple. REPORTER’S SALARY RAISED HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. July I.—The salary of Miss Anna Schroeder, official court reporter of the Weils and Black ford Circuit Courts, was increased from kIAOO to $2,000 by Judge Frank Gordon Thursday.

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‘Hick/ Dramatic Critic, Hears Dempsey Can Win in Second ‘Act’ of ‘Matinee’

By WALTER D. HICKMAN. | ON BOARD THE PENNSYLVANIA, BOUND FOR JERSEY CITY, VIA NEW YORK, July I.—l am full of fight. Not that I want :o give anybody a black eye, but the air la full of fight talk. Here I am sitting as pretty as you please in the nifty parlor car of the fast Pennsylvania train bound for New York City. Everybody is a flrst-eiafcs authority on Just when and how Dempsey is going to plant the "long sleep” punch on Monsieur | C&rpentier's Jaw. I have bored C. Roltare Eggleston to death by referring to the preliminary touts as “curtain raisers," and the big fight as a ‘•matinee." Try as much as I can, I am unable to speak of the big fight unless I use theatrical chatter. For weeks I have read Eddie Ash's learned “articles,” I should have said fight dope, and would have consented to have turned the pages of the Police Gazette if 1 could have spotted one at a barber shop. In other words. I was willing to do antyhing to look sporty. So keen was I to have that satisfied sporty feelln' on this trip that I nearly was talked into buying a loud checkered j suit—you know, one of those shrieking “birds.” Somehow I didn’t have the nerve to doll up like a checker board, so 1 compromised on a near-loud brown. But I have noticed all along the way. that ■ the guys who wear the “checkered” suits are all wise on the fight dope. Have heard a bunch of talk about “id! bet you ten to one,” but 1 haven't seen the “one" let alone the “ten.” A little fellow in a very modest blue suit produced a ‘Toll” but a wise bird In a big checked suit drew out only the ”makir.s” and some cigarette papers. The “birds” on this train talk as if they have played marbles with Dempsey and have played in the movies with Georges. If hot air were money, some oj, these guys would make Rockefeller look like an empty oil barrel. Even the are authorities on the fight situation. While brushing you off and at the same time brushing something* Into their hand, they give lengthy discourses on the “pow'ful punch Mr. Dempsey has.” To hear the talk on this train, Dempsey will put the lily in Georges'hand at the end of the second If not the first act, I mean round. I didn't know that Christmas came on the Fourth of July this year but I guess It does. C. Roltare Eggleßton Is playing the Santa Claus role In a summer production of "The Night Before Christmas." With the consent of the New York office of B. F. Keith vaudeville circuit Mr. Eggleston, the manager of the Indianapolis house, gathered up three representatives of the local papers, also Mayor Charles W. Jewett and carted us all on the 5:45 p. m. train yesterday for New York City to see the big fight at Jersey City Saturday afternoon. The mayor wouldn't admit to the city tall reporters that he was going to witness the fight. The way he put it was that “if an angel should drop in. give him some tickets he would go with the newspapermen to the fight.” So the “angel” did drop the necessary card boards and here we all are being piloted to the big fight by Mr' Eggleston. As Cabinet members Intend to be at the fight, the mayor- will not feel out of place. I have traveled a wee bit at election tiroes, but the talk is “hotter" about this fight than I ever heard a Harding Republican denounce the League of Nations. The air Is full of fight dope. Even the wheels of the train as they spin over the rails seem to sing. “Knockout out in the second.” The women on the trsin. probably because they have full suffrage, refer to the “fistic ab.llty” of both Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Carpentier. Some of the women are 'keen” to see even a seven-round fight. The women use sweeter English in discussing the fight than the men, but some of the fair on.-s ore anxloua to see Carpentier “administer Ihe decisive blow. - ' And so here I am in the world of sport.

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speeding to the “center of the earth" for tomorrow to see a fight. Dempsey may swing the "good night" punch in the first round. Then again, Carpentier may try a toe dancing stunt and causa Jack to walk snd prance around the ring. As I muee on the dramatic possibilities of the fight, I am assured by a gentleman 'in a checked suit, “That that guy Carpentier Is flirtin’ with death” and “the whole thing will be over by the second round." “Nothing to it,” I am assured. “Dempsey will knock tho tar out of the Frenchman.” So you see, I am Just keapin’ quiet and waitin’ to see what will happen at the “matinee” tomorrow. GEN. PERSHING TAKES UPJOB AS CHIEF OF STAFF (Continued From Page One.) outbreak of hostilities In 1914. On this subject General Pershing has very definite ideas. He saw in 1917 how the War Department general staff was disrupted when it become necessary to take the cream of officer talent from that organization in order to form a staff for overseas duty. He is determined that such a situation shall not be brought about again if he can prevent it. While the facilities at hand will permit of only a skeleton organization. General Pershing Intends to build up that skeleton organization in such a -way that it will be adequate to take the field In time of crisis and immediately start functioning as the directing bead of tlfe American war time armies. There would, of course, med to be many additions of personnel to put the organization on a war footing, but under General Pershing's plan there would be a trained man for every really vital post who would not only know how to run his job but would also be ready to break in others as his assistants when the proper time came. The present general staff will have charge of all routine matters of administration in the War Department during peace time. That organization would not be interfered with by the wjr time machine, but in time of war would function as the service of supply for the armies in the field. General Pershing also has positive notions as to the part the civilian eoldier should play in our scheme of national defense. Asa West Toint graduate and “regular Army man,” the General appreciates the value of the professional soldier as a nucleus upon which to build an Army. He labors under no illusion*, however, as to the comparative Importance of the roles played by professional soldiers and civilian soldiers during the World War. He believes the United States has In her youthful male population the greatest military material in the world, and he saw much of it prove its worth on tho battlefields of trance. The great task, the General believes, is to keep these young veterans' interested in the Army. He wants the National Guard recruited to a strength of 500,000 or more, and he wants to see the officers reserve corps continued with Its wartime spirit and morale. The General believes the present system of training National Guard units 1* all wrong Under the present scheme Regular Army officers who do not “fit , :1 other Jobs are sent out as Instructors to National Guard organizations They are given no particular instructions as to how their work shall he carried on. and each man is free to do about as hs pleases. CHANGES PLANNED IN GENERAL STAFF. General Tcrshlng is convinced that Instructors should be picked men, chosen because they show particular aptitude for the Job they are to undertake. He believes the officers so chosen should then

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Dr. Cope, the head of the British Antarctic Expedition, who nas. according to a dispatch received at Vancouver, B. C., discovered anew continent in the Antarctic. It is described as rich In minerals, oils, furs; and strange-birds of immense size, as well as seals, sea leopards and gorgeous emperor penguins Inhabit this land beyond Terra del Fuego. The area of this new continent, lying at the “bottom of the earth,” has not yet been computed. be sent to a school for six or eight months and given a uniform course in military pedagogy In order that there may tie uniformity in the instruction they are to impart to embryo soldiers to whom they may later be assigned. Incidentally, General Pershing Is expected to make a few changes In the general staff. While the nature of these changes has not been divulged officially as yet, it is uriderstoodo that they will lie in the direction of decentralization The General intends that there shall be no ground in the future for the criticism that the general staff is usurping functions of War Department bureaus. But the Pershing Innovation, which is awaited with greatest expectancy, especially by officers who served overseas, Is the suggested modification of the uniform regulations to Include the Sam Brown belt. The question of the Sam Brown belt first came up when the American forces went overseas and the "harness” was authorized for use in the A. E. F. At that time it was recommended by a board of general officers for use In the United States, but the proposal was defeated by the opposition It is said, of General March. Being a full general, General Pershing has the right to prescribe his own uniform, and it is a noticeable fact that since t is retnrn to America he has always worn the Sam Brown belt, regardless of the fact that other officers may uot wear it in the United States. It Is expected that Just as soon as he convenient! yean the General win recommend to Secretary Weeks that the Sam Brown belt be adopted as part of the American uniform. General Harnord. too. Is understood to favor the belt. Hence the Joy among former overseas officers who. despite two or three years of practice, have never quite got over the feeling that without the Sam Brown they are "half undressed.” GLASS FACTORY TO OPEN. HARTFORD CITY, Did., July I.—Announcement has been made at Pittsburgh that the local p'ant of the American Window Glass company will be the first placed in operation this fall.

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Do not mar your trip by using old casings that may give you trouble; prepare for the 4th. |. : From July sth until Sept. Ist we will close at 5:30 p. m., except Saturday evening. Not open Sundays. “Quality Considered, We Sell It for Less” s OPEN SATURDAY EVENING TILL 9 O'CLOCK. CITIZENS AUTO SUPPLY Pearl C. Barnes, Mgr. CO. Homer E. Enlow, Asst. Mgr. MAIN 4168. Mass. Ave. at Delaware and New York Sts.

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This we have been unable to do because of the lack of funds,” Mr. Griffith said. “Inspection shows,” continued Mr. Griffith,” that some iron bridges are rusting to such an extent that by tapping a hammer on an eye bean, a hole results. If these bridges had been painted at the proper time, money would have been saved. I am asktng and have asked for large bridge appropriations because I desire to protect public property after it has been built. LACX OF FUNDS ANNULS ORDER. “Some time ago, the judge of the Circuit Court ordered that Thirty-Eighth street to Cooper avenue \be opened and it is necessary to build two small bridges. We have been unable to comply with that order because of no appropriations.” Surveyor Griffith after a personal tour of investigation of the county bridges, has made the following survey of conditions of some of the principal bridges: The iron bridge over White River at Broad Ripple is rusting down for the want of paint and the floor is nearly impassable at times. The covered wooden bridge over Fall Creek on Keystone avenue is nearly | minues the roof. It. has had no paint for I years and the floor is sagged, j On Sherman drive, just north of [Thirty-Eighth street, the'retaining wall ! along the bridge has fallen in and tho I bridge Is undermined and is ready to i in. i The Evans road Is being built in Lawrence township and the old bridge lias to be moved 200 feet before the road can be used. The bridge Is across Fall Creek. In sections 32 and 31 in Lawranoe township thero._are two small wood'-n bridges that are not safe for even a small car to cross. No heavy load can cross them. CONCRETE BRIDGES UNDERMINED. j South of Tenth street on the county I line west, the concrete bridge has been undermined and Is not safe. I North of Bridgeport the concrete : bridge in section No. 16 has been underi mined and the bridge Is not safe. I in section No. 19 in Decatur township, ! the bridge has given way and is not j safe for heavy loads. The bridge on Little Buck Creek. ! which Is of the old iron type, is not safe and very narrow. It should be replaced with a concrete bridge. Mnny act cidents have occurred here. In section No. 21 on Moze road, in Franklin Township, the old wooden culverts are not safe for heavy loads j The coping on the Morris street bridgy i over Eagle Creek has been destroyed by boys and should be replaced at once. Bridge Is in bad condition j The copirjg and rail of Eagle Creek | bridge is g/ine and should be replaced. It j is dangerous. I Alt iron bridges are in bad condition | because of the lack of paint, Surveyor I Griffith reports. ! COUNTY on D lALS MAKE INSPECTION. Members of the county council. th county commissioners and County | Auditor Leo K. Fesler went over all the bridges in the county during a recent i trip of inspection. Mr. Griflth will ln- | elude the above data in a written reI port which he Is preparing for the con- | sideration of the county council. At the last council meeting. Commls- ! sloner Lewis George warned the couneilj men that some bridges are In such a bad state that the county might be called upon to pay heavy damages because of a fatal accident. WON'T r.AY FINE: JAILED. HARTFORD CITY. ind.. July I.—Cliff Englehart. of this city, was placed in life county Jail Thursday to serve eleven days for failure to pay a fine, assessed for slapping his sisters face.

HEALTH SURVEY ON LARGE SCALE AT LAFAYETTE Tuberculosis .Association Employs Boston Doctor to Carry on Work. Special to The Times. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July I.—A public health survey of a magnitude never attempted before any city of this size In the United States has been started here under the auspices of the Tippecanoe County Tuberculosis Association, incorporated. Dr. Murray P. Horwood, professor in biology and public hygiene in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and a recognized “community doctor,” has been engaged by the association to carry on the work. Dr. Horwood is now in the city and has started the survey. Dr. Horwood will do much of the work himself, but will have at his disposal a volunteer corps of about one hundred women, and also has been given permission to use the laboratories of Purdue University, whore he will make analytic tests of Lafayette w'ater and milk. The work will take a month or more to complete and in that time Dr. Horwood hopes to “feel the pulse” of *he community thoroughly. A feature of the survey will be the housing investigation, in which every inbabitated house in the city and county will be visited for the purpose of gaining data on sanitation outside and inside and other information bearing on public health. Other things to be included in the survey are water, sewerage, garbage, milk, school sanitation and hygiene, hospitals, anti-tuberculosis work, city and county budgets, stores and eat*ng places. I The tuberculosis association is bent on improving tho health of the community : and through the survey hopes to gain information which will enable it to continue in the work Intelligently. New Haven, Cleveland, Oklahoma City, Springfield, 111., and New Orleans were mentioned by Dr. Horwood as among the ! larger cities of the country which have i had public health surveys. lie said that ! Indianapolis contemplated a survey nuxt , year. j The survey here is being carried on i under the indorsement and approval of ! the United States Public Health Bureau. | National Tuberculosis Association and Indiana Tuberculosis Association. Terre Haute Couple Face ‘Badger* Charge Poerisl to The Time*. TERRE HAUTE, Tnd., July L—Local police have arrested Emma j and Paul Dickson, alias Jackson. 19, ; charged with working the "badger game.” j The operations of the couple began early i In the week, according to detectives, when they tried to work the "angry husband” I game on Charles A. Horrall, a traveling 1 salesman. Horrall. walking with the girl, was stopped in an alley by the youth, who demanded ?10, saying that it would take that much to square up. it is said. The c3se was continued In city court ' until a later date. Farmer Arrested for an Alleged Bad Check Special to The Time*. „ NOBLESVILLE. Ind., July I.—Aritn Tulip, a young farmer living near this city, was arrested by the Nobiesville police yesterday afternoon on the charge I of issuing a had check and turned over to the F.lwood authorities. Culip was 1 forroeriy employed at Elwood and It is hk id he gave a check to A. P. Myers of that city without having any money in the bank It is said Culip was convicted of stealing an automobile at Anderson early In the spring and released on a suspended sentence.

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Here's Case Where Music Failed to Weave a Charm “Mnslc hath charms.” But the brand of music played by Mrs. Josephine Klinkert, 262 North Keystone avenue, did not exactly please Mrs. Hazel Short, 264 North Keystone avenue, she contends In a suit filed against Mrs. Klinkert. The music so disrupted feeling in the neighborhood, according to evidence presented in city court late Thursday, that a petition was circulated to force the Klinkerts to move. “Turkey in the Straw,” “Alabam', ” “When the Bees Make Honey” and other ragtime songs were played, according to

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