Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled tonight and Thursday. Warmer tonight. Colder Thursday.

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PLAZA BLOCK IS APPRAISED AT $1,210,317 Values Fixed for Property City Plans to Donate., BONDS NOW READY Controller Places Issue in Hands of Treasurer. The total appraised value of the property in the block which the city intends to acquire for war memorial plaaa purposes is $1,210,317.50, according to the report of the appraisers, made public today by the board of public works. City Controller Robert 11. Bryson s* ported that he ba<l turned the J 1.600.000 worth of plaza bonds over to Ralph A. Lemeke, as city treasurer, and that they are ready for him to deliver to the Indiana Trust Company and National City Company of New York, successful bidders, at any time. As soon as the banks pay the money for the bonds to the treasurer the board of works is ready to start signing contracts for the purchase of the fourteen pieces of property in the block. The block is bounded by Meridian. North, Michigan and Pennsylvania streets. KOM) PROVISION EXCEEDS VALIDATION. With the premium offered by the sue-.-e-ful bidders the oily will receive a|> proximate!)' SI.CsIs.OOO for the bonds or aproximately Jl.3S.liW uo*re than the ap oral soil value of the property to be bought. Cnder the conditions .of the bond isue this sum may be used to ecqulre further property in the block south of (Continued oil Page six.)

Chicago Bandits Nab $4,000 in View of Police Station UiIIt!AGU, Deo. 2S. -Three bandit* today heai u tail r... Kdward ti ll me. e.-e:‘p.-.g with The robbery 0.-etired ou crowded Michigan botiltvnrd. within view of a police station.

Mrs. Harold McCormick Granted Divorce Decree

AWARD MADE AFTER HEARING THAT LASTS LESS THAJV HALF HOUR Rumors of Discord Between John D.’s Daughter and Harvester Co.’s Head Frequent of Late. CHICAGO, L)ec. 28. —Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, and herself one of the wealthiest women in the world, today was granted a decree of divert- - from Harold F. McCormick, head of the International Harvester Company. The decree was granted by Judge Charles A. McDonald in a remarkably brief hearing in less than half an hour aftar the case was brought into court.

Mrs. McCormick was granted the decree after the introduction of testimony by her attorneys. McCormick's attorneys did not introduce testimony iu opposttion. Mrs. McCormick was called to the witness stand and questioned by her attorney. former Judge Charles C. Cutting The divorce was granted on the ground •>f desertion. She testified she resides at Its*) Lake Shore drive: that she resided there since August. I*o7. except for periods she -pent abroad. dt IVhen were you married? A Not. 26, 1595, to Harold F. MeCofßib k. Q. How long did you live with him? A. Cntil May 27. 101*. Q. tin that date what happened? A. He left me. q. Where were you on that occasion? A. At Zurich, in Switzerland. y. Did he give you any reason for his leaving? A. None whatever. FAILED TO SI I* PORT ROCKEFELLER DAI'GIITEK. Q. Has he supported you since or contributed any money for support? A. He has not supported me. Q. Did he give you any reason for leaving you?

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Submarine Controversy May Bring Lloyd George to Disarmament Parley

LONDON, Dec. 28.—The submarine controversy may furnish Premier Lloyd George with an opportunity to make his long desired visit to the United States, it was learned 'n Downing street circles today. The Irish troubles prevented the Premier from going to Washington in November, but there is every indication now that Dail Eireann will ratify the Irish peace treaty when it meets In Dublin Jan. o. The supreme council will meet at I Cannes the first week of January, and it is unlikely that the Premier would leave until that meeting is over, if he goes at all. The Cannes meeting prob- ! ably will last five days. expects second WORLD CONFERENCE. Premier Lloyd George confidently ex pects a second world conference, but it will be unable to meet for six months. It is regarded in political circles as virtually certain that there will be a general election in the spring. If so, the Premier will make his stand on the slogan that the time is at hand to straigjten out the economic affairs of Europe, and that his close relationship with all In ternatlonal developments of the past few years puts him in a peculiarly favorable position to head the British delegation to such a conference. Os course, if Lloyd George is defeated in.the general election he can not become Premier, and consequently will lose his chance to 1 ceome Britain's chief delegate. Downing streei officials make no se cret that the premier at the supreme council meeting wilt insist upon a fivepower conference with Russia nod Ger many participating' upon equal status. This conference is separate and distinct ROBBERS MAKE BIG GARB HAUL Take Clothing Valued at S.S.SOO From Store in Wagon. Clothing valued at $3,800 was hauled away from the store of the People's Friend Clothing Uompany. 134 West Washington >treet. by burglars last night. The burglars broke a rear window and crawled through, throwing the clothing into the alley. The clothing consisted of twenty-four oven its. valued at twenty eight softs. v.i’tHM :rt *7 frye- fbtte-—r , trbtcmvt:'‘ valued a Si.3: two gaberdine*, valued at S.V,; thirty dresses worth sll.3i>: six fur eoats. valued at ■MOO: thirty combination waists and sweater*. valued at M 3.3 and .me fur cape valued at S3O.

A lie gave no reason and there was no reason. (J. How did you conduct yourself toward him during the time you lived toget tier ? A. lu a manner that a wife should. This concluded Mrs. McCormick's testimony. She was tle first witness called. Mrs. Deeloy, a domestic servant in the employ of Mrs. McCormick for fourteen years, was next called. She was asked if -•he remembered May, 1918, in Zurich. Sinsaid she did. Asked what McCormick did at that time, she repiled: “He went away. He said he was not going to live with her any more." Later, she said, he came buck to Zurich and stayed at the same hotel—the Bauer Ail Lac—but did not occupy the same room with Mrs. McCormick. (J. He did not live with her as her husband in the same apartment? A. No. ho did not. I.IYKI> SEPARATELY IN CHIC'AGO. Asked if McCormick lived at Hl**) Lake Shore drive, Chicago, the McCormick home, since their separation in Switzer land, Mrs. Deeley said he had not. Her testimony ended there. Mrs. McCormick returned to the I nited States from Europe late in September, after an exile of eight years from America. She was welcomed in New \ .irk as the daughter of America's richest man. Her husband was at the pier. But he did not go with her into the country to visit her father. They came to Chicago ; trom New York on seperate train*. On i her arrival Mr- McCormick denied she ' contemplated divorce. “Notlc. - .g terther from inv mind than I divorce.” sin- was quoted as saying: “I sav M MiS'orntick .hr-*- tint--* In Zurich, two weeks ago. and we had som- [ pleasant conversations. “I am a psychologist and 1 believe in I freedom of action. I atn very human and I think itjs a beautiful idea if two people j enjoy each other's society and if one can (Continued Paen |UO

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from the proposed world conference of economic affairs. It is believed France will oppose the proposal for a five-power conference, but it likely will receive Belgian and Ital ian support. Italy has just signed a commercial treaty with Soviet Russia which makes it certain Italy will support the livepower conference plan. Premier Lloyd George believes that cnee Europe shows a united front and is ready to co-operate in grappling with difficulties, American public opinion will offer Its support. Great Britain proposes to invite the United States to participate in the inter national conference, it was learned. The United States will be invited to send either an official delegation or au ob server. It Is believed Great Britain or France will raise the question of war debts. SOCIALISTS GO TO GREET DEBS ON HIS ARRIVAL Famous Prisoner Halts in Indianapolis for TwoHour Wait. Indianapolis Socialists went to the Union Station In a body this afternoon to greet Eugene V. Debs who stopped over in the city for two hour.* between train* on his way to his home in Terre Haute. Mr. Debs eame from Washington where he went folowing his release from Fed eral prison at Atlanta. Mr. Debs was due to arrive at 1 :V> o'elock, aeording to word received by IV ill la in If. Henry. Sociali*t national romltteeman from Indiana. I'e was ex pe.-ted to go immediately to a hotel to await bis train to Terre Haute. DEBS’ HOME TOWS HAS BIG BLASS TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dee. js friends, neighbors and admirers tt Eugene V Debs numbering thousands were keyed up to a high pitch of * peetancy today while they awaited the home coming of the distinguished Socialist. It had been expected that t*ehs would arrive shortly before 4 o'clock UiAi (tlierwoon. but his declytoi, to t—mstn in Indianapolis a couple <.f hour* and , o:ne ti> Terre Haute on a later train will enable hundred* of working people to 1 arti. ipate in a monster demonstration who otherwise would be unable to greet him.

SHOWEII WILSON WITH MESSAGES ON ANNIVERSARY \ Admirers of Former President Help Him Remember 65th Milestone. WASHINGTON. Dec. 2-8. Great masse* : f letters and telegrams swept In on rtPresident Wilson today, his sixty fifth birthday anniversary. They brought messages of cheer anil Wilson was gratified. He passed the day without special observance of the new milestone and followed in the main the routine of his days reading, writing, exercising. The birthday anniversary found the former executive in better health than had ls>-i ids lot for many months and with a mind na keen and clear as ever. There was a deal of satisfaction for him in expressions of faith in his post war course, though he is studiously refraining from participating in any way in domestic or international polities of the present—polities which link in one way or another with the things he undertook as President. I)R. SUN’S WIFE JOINS HIM ON BATTLE FRONT SHANGHAI, Dec. 28.—Madame Sun Yat Sen. wife of Dr. Sun, president or the-Smth China republic, regarding whose safety grave fears were entertained because of sensational reports or her kidnaping current, has arrived at the battle front and Joined her husband, it was definitely established in advices received here today. Shiveley May Seek Senatorial Toga Spe'inl to The Tinn-v. MARION, lud.. Dim-. 28. Bernard 15. Shiveley, former State Senator, is in a i “receptive” mood regarding candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, he said today. Mr. Shiveley said he is in the “hands of his friends” and that he would not he an aggressive aspirant for the nomination Man Kills Self on Train Near St. Louis ST. LOUIS. I>e'\ 28. The body of John Gustafson Kveleth. Minn., who committed suicide, on a Chicago & Alton ] train as it neared the city last night, was ; placed in a morgue pending word from I that place. Gustafson shot himself in the brain. lie had purchased his rail- j road ticket at Duluth, Minn., and the | destination was Hot Sprinra. Ark.

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CONFERENCE WILL NOT PUT LIMIT ON ‘SUBS’ Undersea Craft Discussion Now Ended. POWERS CONFER Two Hours’ Secret Session Brings No Solution. WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.—The Washington conference will not put any limitation on the number of submarines that any nation may maintain and all dLseusslon on submarine limitation is now ended, so far a the present conference is concerned. This was the result of a secret session of the naval powers here today. The French delegate* pressed their demand f-r tXI.OOO ton* of submarine* at the session, staling that this figure was the absolute minimum France could except. The other powers were hot in a | position to hcredo to the French demand and • the negotiations as regard* stiht marines were officially closed, j I'KKNCII Vt.lIV SURPRISE i li IT It IU(. DEMANDS, j Dlsctissious were at once initiated with ! regard to other auxiliary navy ships. Modi us light cruisers, torpedo boats, airI plan, carrier*, etc., and h--re again the French delegation surprised the cotiferby stating that I retire considered J r.su.ono ton* of these vessels as necessary for French needs. The United States proposed that all auxiliary ships lie limited to 10.000 ton* In size niut tills proposal was under discussion when the session recessed early this afternoon. It will be taken up again • j The American delegates Informed the | other powers that they have a proposal to make with regard to airplane rtcr*. but it was reserved until a infer session. The file of submarines and other asix ; Hiary naval fighting craft, so far as th Washington conference j< concerned, hung ‘ !ff" i *he , t..i!:rp%e’'wtton th’u power* met agttlff in ••cret to resume db ussion on naval limitation Evert indication pointed to the flat re f-.sal of both France and Japan to ae<Continuril on Page Two.)

MAY DECLARE MARTIAL RULE Kentucky Governor Determined to Quell Strike Disorder at Newport, Ivy. NHWI’OHT, K.v.. Dec. 28. With ihc arrival of two additional companies of tic- Kentucky National Guard today. Governor Edwin P. Morrow is expected to declare martial law In this city, where n strike Involving workers at the Newport Rolling .Mills lias been in progress for several weeks. Sporadic cases of shooting on the streets in tiie vicinity of the plant have been reported but with more than 350 men under his command. Col. II H. Denhardt expn -,se- full confidence In Ids ability to cope with the situation. “Disorder and outlawry must cease," Governor Morro\v*!nld Colonel Denhardt over the telephone: "if necessary i shall Summon every one of the two thousand men available for military duty.”

Shank Offers Positions in Police Department to Feminine Uplifters

If there are in all Indianapolis two women, who are prominent socially and In club life, married and college graduates who want to get a real. Inside picture of life an the average policeman ou a beat sees it and thereby gain a store of accurate Information which they can spread among their sisters who are Interested in the uplift of humanity let them step forward. Samuel Lewis Shank, mayor-elect, offers them the opportunity. Tin. major elect announced today ho has had Mrs. Richard Licber searching ! for two such candidates for appointment j to the police force l’or a week, but that I she bus not yet been successful. SHANK INSISTS HE ISN’T JOKING. “I'm not joking about, I don t want anybody to regard it as a laughing matter,” said Mr. Shank. "I want serious-minded, highly-educated, society women to go on the police force and perform the duties, obey rules and regulations and receive the same salary as a regular policeman. So many women go around to their clubs and talk about what we ought to do to stop the crime wave and keep little boys and girls from going wrong when they don't know a thing about It. Any copper on a beat knows more in a minute than most of these women in nu hour, but they can't tell anybody about it. They haven't the training in language and public speaking to get before an audience and tell what they know. Now if I can gat two women

FIRES FATAL SHOTS AFTER QUARREL AT HOME; SAYS HE DREW REVOLVER FIRST

POLICE ARE CALLED BY TELEPHONE GIRL WHO HEARD SCREAMS Toll Operator Called Residence to Connect Louisville, Where Woman’s Father * Is Near Death. VICTIM SAID TO BE MORAL PERVERT Mrs. Florence Simmons, 2J, who shot aud killed her husband, James Ewing Simmons, 31, at their home. 1417 St. Peter street, about 7 a. m. today, this afternoon gave a detailed account of the tragedy to the police. In it she recounted a series of indignities she declares she has suffered at the hands of her husband over a period of years, culminating when he struck her last nighs. They quarreled practically the entire night, she said, and the dispute continued until his death. Mrs. Simmons, who has been slated on a charge of murder, declared in her statement that her husband, while Intoxicated, attempted to assault her friend, Miss Lavan Martin, who had accompanied her home from a motion picture show.

Mrs. Simmons told the police her husband was a moral pervert and bud threatened her life severul times during the night. As she went to the telephone to call for litsip a uies.age that nag to carry to her the Information that tier rather. Thomas Henley, was dylug In I/otilsvlile, w.is coining over the wire. Simmons rushed at her with a revolver, she said. She declared she knocked the weapon from Ids hand and that lu a brief struggle In the living room of their Utile hungaion she secured the gun and tired two j or three times. Dr George Christian, deputy eoroner. ; after a preliminary examination, said at least four bullets had taken effect In his body. Simmon* was a veteran at the WmM War. bavlnyt- as*- !!., ITtV Infantry, lie served overseas, in the army of occupation. He arid been emplored as a brakeman on the railroad. The Simmon* were married in Detroit, Mich.. March 15, 191 tS, and the first year of their married life nos happy, Mrs. Simmons said. i The shooting was repnr-ed to the poll.’** first by toll operators of the Indiana Hell Telephone Comprinj who had taken the call from Louisville. At 7 a. m. a long distance rail wa* received from Louisville, Ivy.. for l>rcxet 47tV>. Miss Mildred Carpenter, the Inward operator, rang Drexel 47*i*> and while supervising the connection, heard a woman's voice at the Indianapolis telephone, saying. "My God, he Is killing me and my baby. Get the police . ” At this point, Mrs Myrtle Mttellet plugged In on the connection and both < perntors heard screams from a woman nnd baby and also heard a man’s voice. Mrs Mueller rang the police department at once, nnd at the same time Mrs. Mary Lloyd obtained the address listing for Drexel 47''>t>. Mrs Mueller passed all the facta of the call to Police Department, Including the address. At 7:20 ft. m. the police department called the chief operator In charge. Miss Martha Ponnm-renlng,- requesting th* names and addresses of the people who had assisted In rendering them this service nnd advising iter that Mrs. Simmons huii fatally wounded her husband. Other information In regard to the party calling from Louisville was also requested. All the information requested by the police department was furnished i In so far ns was possible and assistance S also given In -locating relatives of Mrs. Simmons. Lieutenant Merrill of the police <le partment commended the toll girls very highly for the prompt service rendered Hicycleman were at once dispatched to the scene hut before they arrived Ora Maker, HOI* St. l’oter street, had notified . the police of the murder. Police are unable to account for that part of the story of the telephone opor(t ontlnued on Page Mix.)

| of the typo I'm looking for to go into the j police forco and perform the duties of j the ordinary policeman for, say a year, ! longer if they care to stay —they would | bo able to take a real message to the | women who are honestly interested iu I making conditions better. DOESN’T WANT MERE BUKYBODIES. “Keep in mind that I don't want a woman to go around to houses and tell folks how to raise their children and all that. I don't want someone going around and saying 'Now, I‘npn you do this,’ un.l ‘Mamma, don’t you do this.' 1 want these women to be real coppers. I want them to lie able to sit at headquarters when the detectives are grilling a murderer and if they slap him on the side of the head not to rush out saying: ‘My sakes, isn't this terrible.’ I want them to go with the men when they raid crap games or chase burglars. Say, I just want them to be real coppers for about a year then hear what they've got to say about how in the world we’re going to clean up the underworld. I imagine we’ll get a whole lot more sensible suggestions that we’re getting from most people now.” DEMANDS EARLY ACTION ON STREETS. Mr. Shank announced he has instructed Virgil Ferguson, appointee for assistant street commissioner in chnge of unimproved streets, to have eight Inspectors start making a survey of the condition of every foot of unimproved streets, of (Continued on Page Two.)

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STORY OF TRAGEDY KEPT SECRET FROM FATHER, NEAR DEATH ! Stepmother of Mrs. Simmons, Who Killed Husband, Says He Was Insanely ous—Suffers From Shock. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Doc. 28. —Thomas Bewley, 62. father of Mrs. James E. Simmons, xvho shot and killed her husband at their home in Indianapolis today, Is lying at the point of death at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Coleman Savage, .133 Highland Boulevard, Highland Park, and has not been told of the tragedy. Mrs. Bewley, who is a stepmother to Mrs. Simmons, is suffering from a severe nervous shock, due to her husband's condition, which was aggravated when she received news of the murder.

Mrs. Bewley said Simmons had an extremely jealous disposition nnd that he and his wife had frequently quarreled. On Christmas day, she said, Simmons had struck his wife with a tin j can while they were In the rear yard of their home and she had come in the house weeping and had retired to her room. Mr. Bewley was a crossing flagman for the Big Four Railroad anil he and his wife had been living with their daughter, Mrs. Simmons. They left Indianapolis Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock for Louisville and were driven to the depot by Mr. and Mrs. Simmons. Mrs. Bewley said the couple seemed to be in unusually good spirits then. A son, James Bewley, of Sharon. I’a., joined them here and another son, Jesse, of Bowling Green, Ivy., also came here to meet his parents. Last night Mr. Bewley was stricken with ureraie poisoning which became serious in a short time. This morning Mr. Savage asked Dr. J. B. Shacklette, Taxi Driver Knocks Bandit Senseless CAMDEN. X. J. Dee. 28. Defying a pistol pointed at him, William 11. Bishop, taxi driver, early today hammered a bandit senseless who attempted to hold him up after hiring his car and ordering him to drive to a lonely spot. The bandit escaped later as Bishop was telephoning for the police, leaving a large revolver and a packuge of personal, effects.

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41 Park boulevard, to call Mrs. Simmons and notify her of her father’s illness and urge her to come here at once. She was also to notify her brothers, Fred nnd George Bewley of Indianapolis, and to bring them along, as it was feared he was dying. Dr. Shacklette said that the long distance operator told him the line was in trouble and it is believed it was at that time the shooting occurred. KLAN MEMBERS ASK RECEIVER Nearly Two Hundred Sign Petition Filed Against KuKlux Body. ATLANTA, Ga.. Dec. 2S.—A petition asking that a receiver be appointed to take charge of affairs of the “Invisible Empire,” Knights of the Ivu Klux Klan, was filed hers today in Fulton County Superior Court by Henry B. Terrell and 174 other members of the klan. DRIVES FAMILIES INTO BTRET. CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.—-Ten families were driven Into (he street today by a fire that destroyed one building and threatened to destroy a block of frame dwelings on i i the south side. The loss la estimated i at SIO,OOO.

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Mrs. Florence Simmons (topi who shot and killed her husband, James Ewing Simmons (lower! at their home, 1117 St. Peter street, today following an nil night quarrel. The gir! wrested a revolver from the hands of her husband and with deadly accuracy planted four bullets in vital spots of his body. Then she surrendered to the police, and calmly dlscused the tragedy. MUST DECIDE ~ U. S. STAND ON WORLD ISSUES Harding and Advisors to Determine Policy. Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By ROBERT BARRY. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—1 tis a matter now of days when President Harding, Secretary Hughes and Senator Lodge may come to a momentous decision as to the extent and scope of American relationships with Europe, with the world economics and world finance, with political issues bearing squarely on American rights. In every well-informed quarter In Washington there is acknowledgment ot the Imminence of that far-reaching determination of policy. The Administration Is regarded as ready to give the answer. That answer, it is believed, will not be in accord with the policy of eom.plete Isolation in which the Senate irreconeilables succeeded iu the conflict with Woodrow Wilson. President Harding has said frequently to some of his former colleagues In the Senate that responsibility carried with It an entirely different viewpoint than an academic discussion conducted from the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. He has not meant by that he has aspired to abandon his antagonism to American membership in a political organization such as he holds the League of Nation* to be. Mr. Hughes is represented a* holding a like view. Both believe America can safeguard her rights and discharge her proper responsibilities without involvement in any hard and fast political entity. Their theory is one of association with the nations rather than an association of the nations. In many a diplomatic quarter, however, may be gained intimations of a policy sponsored by past masters at the art of international politics, which contemplates a series of moves to bring (Continued on Page Eleven.)

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