Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. Slightly colder tonight.

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Yeggmen Destroy SI,OOO in Blowing Eagles' Safe; Get $137; Overlook SIOO

NO HOPE FOR REDEMPTION OF CURRENCY Money Proceeds of Big Initiation and Banquet Sunday. HIDE IN THEATER Two Intruders Flee as Watchman Fires, A thousand dollars in currency was blown into such tiny pieces by safe crackers, who opened a safe at the Eagles’ lodge, 34 West Vermont street, last night, that it is believed none of it can be redeemed. Officials of the lodge said the robbers obtained $137.63 in money which was in a separate compartment and apparently had not been damaged. They overlooked SIOO, which remained intact in a box in the safe. Th* robbery apparently had been carefully planned, but the crackstren seemingly used too much nitroglycerin. It appeared they had at first opened the outer door of the safe without difficulty. The second charge, in an effort to open the Inner door, however, almost completely wrecked the safe. The sound of the explosion was muffled by about 200 pounds of wet rags piled around the safe. All the cracks around the doors and windows were filled with soap In order to prevent the sound reaching the street. Scattered over the room were $0.53 In pennies which had been In the safe. They had been thrown In every direction by the force of the explosion. The robbery was discovered by Dean Selig, an employe of the lodge. Albert Ledlg, 3953 Graceland avenue, secretary of the lodge, told the police a number of new members had been Initiated and a banquet had been given last night. lie said the money In the safe was the proceeds of the banquet. Selig told the police he left the building about midnight and that all the doors and windows were locked. The police believe the men who blew the safe were hiding In the basement before the building was closed. Members of the police department said they had clews as to the Identity of the safe blowers and that they expected to make arrests soon. A thriller was staged at Loew's State Theater at 5 a. m. today, but it was not on the screen. Ralph R. Riddleh, 615 North Pine street, watchman, started from the office (Continued on Page Two.)

LOCAL TEACHING STAFF BROKEN BY SICKNESS Eighty-Five Instructors Are Are Absent Frcm Their Posts. Eighty-five public school teachers are on the sick list today, according to figure* given out at the office of E. U. Graff, superintendent of schools. This has necessitated the dismissal of classes from five rooms, as there Is also a great amount of illness among teachers on the substitute list. The Influenza epidemic has made heavy inroads in the teaching staff in the last few weeks and on one day 113 teachers were out of service. George H. Rickes, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said that his force has escaped the disease remarkably well, only two cases being reported in his department. Postoffice Shows Parcel Post Gain An Increase of 49,483 C. O. D. parcel post packages shipped from Indianapolis during the month of January over the number shipped in January, 1921, was reported by Robert If. Bryson, postmaster, today. The total number outgoing of C. O. D. packages for the month amounted to 71,917.

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Feb. 14, 1922: Fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly colder tonight, with lowest temperature About 10 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 14 7 a. m 14 8 a. m 13 9 a. m 14 30 a. m 16 31 a. 18 j 12 (noon) IS 1 p. m.. 20 [|f. Sp. m 21

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Here la a view of what Is left of the eafa In Eagles Lodge, 34 West Vermont street, which was blown by safe-crackers last night. The small particles that can be seen on the bottom of the safe are remnants of the SI,OOO in currency destroyed by the use of too much nitro-

Weather to Be Cold, Snappy; Temperature, 10 Cold, snappy, but fair weather will be with us until Tuesday afternoon, with a minimum temperature of about 10 degrees above zero tonight, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist at the United States Weather Bureau. Tomorrow afternoon It will begin to moderate and the mercury will turn upwards slowly but certainly. The cold snap, which began to make Itself felt yesterday, has extended from Wisconsin to Louisiana and Mississippi, according to Mr. Armington, tho fall in temperature over this entire, area ranging from 15 to 32 degrees in twenty-four hours. The greatest change was recorded at Evansvivlle and Cairo, 111., where the drop amounted to 82 degrees. The lowest temperature during the day was recorded at the local station at 8 o'clock this morning when a minimum of 13 degrees above z r -ro was reached. A rise of one degree was noted In the next hour, but Mr. Armtrgton said that It will be colder again tonight.

HARVEY CHURCH FORCIBLY KEPT ‘ALIVE TO DIES CHICAGO, Feb. 13. —So that he may be hanged in the county jail next Friday, j Harvey W. Church, “show-off murderer,” j is being forcibly kept alive by the State. | The State has decreed that Church, who ! has locked his jaws in a hunger strike, must literally “live to die.” Today the condemned man was forcibly j fed with saline solutions by the jail i physicians. Church, termed the “hermit of the jail” j because he has grown a heavy beard and ! shaggy whiskers, has been on a hunger strike for thirty days. His eyes are glassy and sunken, his cheeks a greenish ( yellow. He acts like a wild animal when ; attempts are made to feed him. Jail authorities are making arrange- | ments to carry him to the gallows, if j necessary. Church was convicted of killing, hacking and burying Bernard J. Daugherty and Carl Asmuss, automobile salesmen, to gain possession of an automobile.

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glycerin. The robbers apparently used two charges, one to blow the outside door aud another to blow the inside door. The second charge appears to have been the heavy one and It de stroyed the money the robbers were after The wires that can be seen running from

9,000 Veterans of World War Mentally Afflicted

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Almost nine thousand veterans suffering from nervous diseases ranging from insanity to "shell shock” are giving some of the country's outstanding specialists one of the most perplexing problems relative to care of disabled soldiers. In special conference at the Veterans’ Bureau they are seeking to develop a program of treatment such as will restore some of them at least to normal. Most optimistic estimates, however, are that only about 50 per cent of the former soldiers, now charges of the Government on this account, will ever be restored completely. Former soldiers suffering from mental diseases as a result of their service during the war are scattered in numerous hospitals throughout the country. There are still a large number who have been assigned to Insane asylums. Federal and State, where the rest of the country’s mental patients are treated. Os the 8,833 neuropßychlatrlc patients under the care of the veterans’ bureau, according to figures compiled as lato as Jan. 20 there are 4,703 in Government hospitals and 4,070 In so-called contract hospitals. Moreover prospects for placing the 4,070 in Government hospitals especially equipped to deal with the ex-soldiers frankly Is regarded by some officials of the bureau as not too bright. Under an act of Congress passed last year, 518,000,000 was appropriated to provide appropriate hospital facilities for the disabled soldiers. There are now nineteen hospitals In p-ocess of construction and several are scheduled to be ready for occupancy before next summer. In addition to the neuropsychiatric patients, there are thousands of others suffering from many other forms of disability waiting to find special accommodations In specially built houses. The number of disabled men coming under the care of the Government Is at the same time Increasing. The estimates of experts here now Is that In the case of neuropsychiatrie patients the number will be Increased by 50 per cent by 1926. That would place the total number at more than 12,000 providing a good number of them now being cared for have not recovered sufficiently to be released. 1 According to officials of the Veterans’

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| the safe were connect-d with an electric fan in another part of the room. Evidently the charge was set off by an electric spark, the safe-crackers fearing he too near the explosion. The sound was muffled by wet rags and soap stuffed in the cracks around the doors and windows of tho room.

Bureau, they are powerless In many Instances to keep the ex-soldiers out of Insane asylums to which they have been committed by courts. They find In their dealings with these inen that this Is one of their most difficult problems. The former soldiers suffering from these ailments cannot receive the compensation coming to them without the selection of an appropriate guardian. In some Instances the relatives of the men In question will not go through the legal process of having their kin declared mentally diseased In order to receive the compensation. They prefer to have their relative go without his due compensation rather than have them declared officially as insane. The human side of the problem of dealing with these men is proving probably most difficult. A permanent program for treatment of these cases Is expected to be brought out of the present conference. It Is to cover In addition to the care and treatment of these men, the plans for hospitalization and the compensation and ratings in the case—Copyright, 1922, by i’ublic Ledger Company.

He Says Hollywood No Place for Red Man CIVILIZATION UNDOING OF LAST OF APACHES Chicago Indian Made Wild by ‘ White Man ’

CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—The giddy whirl of the Great White Tribe has made a wild man out of the last of the Apaches. Dr. Carlos Montezuma, who turned to the medical profession after Indian wars became unfashionable, has gone on the war path against the white man’s civilization. “I was a nice tame Indian when I left the dull quiet home of my fathers In the West and came to wild and woolly Chicago,” the bronzo brave complained. “But now, I fear, I’m getting wild again.” The much-maligned flapper, of course, came in for her share of the

HARDING NOT PLEASED WITH PRIMARY PLAN Convention System Is Favored by President. OLD WAY BETTER Dangers Underlying Present Day • Methods. Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public ledger. By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—President Harding has precipitated a domestic political discussion destined to assume wide dimensions with his renewed advocacy of the “old fashioned convention” as the ideal party system. In Washington many politicians of both parties, particularly Republicans of the progressive hue, read into the President's declaration an apparent readiness to lead a campaign for repudiation for tho direct primary system. They assert there is hardly any other interpretation to be placed upon Mr. Harding's utterance before the District league of Republican Clubs Saturday night. Toasting Lincoln’s fealty to party dictum, the President acclaimed tho “collective Judgment" of party as expressed at conventions and attributed to It the "development of American political institutions.” Mr. Harding thus seemed to place himself squarely on record In favor of the delegate-convention method of nominating candidates and fixing party policy What Harding Said ~I mve thr return of Intelligent conTontiono In the Itepubllmn party/* the President said. “I would rather hare men appeal from a party platfom* tnwnrd by the collective and deltbemt* jodfm nt of the many than have an appeal made by the individual for hi® particular locality. 1 belle’e In the collective Jii-’ls* ment of the party convention arid 1 believe In the dictum of party through which the development of America and It* political Institution* ha* come. "I want everybody to know that. I always have been swayed by a tendency to promote party interest and party welfare. 1 do not forget that I first acquired the trust of the Republican party before tiie party placed Its trust in me. 1 do not forffrt that it was not I bat the trnt they placed In the party of Lincoln, McKinley and Kooeevelt which caused the people of the United States to give the great expression of approval they did iu 1920. “We need more of the party spirit of Lincoln's time Ihan wc do some of the things wo have now. Lincoln supported party dictum and party politic® and like him I would rather trust the dictum of party than 1 would the passing whim.* of public life/’

as against the primaries now required by State laws throughout the country. In a word, the I’resldent is seen as proposing to go back to the “normalcy” that prevailed before primaries were Invented. PRESIDENT'S MOTIVES ANALYZED. Politicians are searching for and trying to analyze Mr. Harding’s motives. Some of them are convinced the President is thinking of existing Republican conditions In Washington. It Is known that President Harding and many G. O. P. leaders for some time liavfe been seriously disturbed by the absence of collective leadership In Congress. They ascribe it to tho lack of collective party responsibility In Individual counties and States as a consequence of the primary sytem. They point out that a there Is a minimum of centralized party authority at the fountain head of power—the Republican (Continued on “i g© Four.) 11 DEATHS DUE TO PNEUMONIA City Health Department Regards Influenza Situation Still Serious. Pneumonia took eleven and influenza two lives from 10 o'clock Saturday morning until this morning, the city health department announced. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, said that tho influenza-pneumonia situation Is still serious.

blame for Montezuma’s reversion to type. * “Poor Pocahontas was considered a wild girl In her time, according to history’s estimate,” he said. "But what would the historians have said If she bobbed her feathers, wore short ■ blankets and discarded her moccasins for goloshes? “I shudder to think.” Montezuma said his tribe probably thought it had a hectic time dancing to the din of the tom-toms around the old camp lire at midnight. “They parked us on reservations for carrying on like that,” Montezuma continued. “My ancestors probably

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SHANK REGARDS HIKE IN CARFARE NEEDED FOR BETTER SERVICE Says About 2-Cent Boost, in His Estimation, .Would Solve Problem of ; #j- Transportation. s|sPp CALLS CONFERENCE OF CITIZENS "In my opinion, what must take place before we get good street car service in Indianapolis is about a 2-cent increase in fare,” said Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank today in announcing that he has called a conference of representative citizens to discuss the financial situation of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company at 9 o’clock next Saturday morning. Every labor union and club is the city will be Invited to send one representative to the meeting, which will be held at the city hall. The street railway company will be asked to send officials.

COUNCIL WILL PROBE RELIEF WORK OF CITY Rumor Alleges That Labor Fund Was Misused. TO HEAR CHARGES Investigation of the city administration's use of the $20,000 appropriated in January for the emergency employment of destitute men at $2 a day will bo begun by the city council at the regular meeting next Monday evening, President Theodore J. Bernd of tho city couni cil announced today. My. Bernd is a member of they majority faction which is generally considered as unfriendly to the administration. “W, have heard," *iM Mr. Bernd, "lh, sonic laborer# who wero on the regular city pay rolls at 40 centa an hour were shlf'ed to the emergency pay roll and their wages cut to $2 a day. We also have been Informed that several men were refused Jobs because they did not vote for Mr. Shank for mayor. The council also Is going to try to find out why it Is that the provision of the emergency relief ordinance that no man should be hired until ho was recommended by the city councilman from his ; district has not been obeyed. We're go- i lug to go clear to the bottom of this j tb'ug. i MEN WITH GRIEVANCES ASKED TO ATTEND. "In order that we may find out first hand whether the reports we have heard ore (run I am hereby inviting every mat) who has been employed under' the $2-n----day plan, every one who has had his wages cut from 42 cents an hour to $2 a day. If any, mid every man, 1f any, who was refused a J"b for political reasons, to* coma to the meeting n-xt Monday evening and tell his story. We want t<J find out all about this.” Prom twenty to sixty met. have hen maintained on the emergency pay roll by the street commissioners and street cleaning departments since the’ordinance was passed the middle of last mouth. ‘‘Tell 'em to go to the bottom of everything,” said Mayor Shank when informed (Continued on l’uge Two.)

STANDARD OIL INQUIRY ASKED Middle West Operators Urge Senate to Protect Independent Concerns. WASHINGTON, Feb. IS.-A Federal Investigation of the Standard Oil Company was asked 1n the Senate in resolutions from Middle West oil operators. Tho resoltlons were submitted by Senator King. Democrat, Utah, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. The Independent oil men charged the Standard Oil and its subsidiary companies were “destroying all Independent companies by oppressive measures.” A senatorial Investigation of alleged Irregularities In tho appointment of postmasters was asked by Senator Swanson, Democrat of Virginia. Swanson introduced a resolution calling for an inquiry to determine whether ‘the Postoffice Department has violated acts of Congress and executive orders of Presidents in making appointments of postmasters and rural carriers.” The resolution was referred to the Senate Committee on Postoffices.

look down with jealous eyes from the happy hunting ground as the men and women who civilized them, shake the shimmy to weird jazz.” It Is to laugh, he said, when the white man complains of prohibition. “They took away our firewater,” the 100 per cent American grinned. "And made us drink maple syrup and birch hark tea. Now theirs Is gone. Yip! Yip!” Montezuma was asked to venture an opinion why Indians, so popular In the early nickelodeon days, no longer participated In the celluloid drama. “Hollywood was too wild for the red man,” he said.

WISHES TO GET CITIZENS' VIEWS. “I would not be surprised if, after we have thrashed the whole matter over, the conference would Indorse a 2-cent Increase In fare,” said tho mayor. ‘‘However, I'm not going to advocate this until I find out what the citizens think about It. The 2-cent increase Is Just my Idea of tho solution.’ I)r. Henry Jameson, chairman of the executive committee, and Robert I. Todd, president and general manager of the street railway company, told city offleclals last Friday that the company lost more than $200,000 in 1921 and faces the same situation this year unless relief Is found. They declared that the company wants to raise $3,000,000 to be spent upon improvements In equipment during the next three years If the financial stability can be so rebuilt that securities can be sold. ASK CITT OFFICIALS TO FIGt’RE IT OFT. They said that they were not asking for an increase In fares, but merely that city officials sit down at the conference table with them and work out some means of improving street railway finances. Mr Shank raid he is anxious that all of the bodies invited to send representatives respond. His invitation includes each Individual labor union and each of the many civic and business clubs. ALLEGED SON OF TAYLOR TO CLAIM ESTATE William Edward Taylor Believes Director Was Father.

Silence Is Golden Thinks Negro—He Ain't Sayin' *Nothin' LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 13— Henry l’eavey never mixed up In bte affairs of his ‘‘white folk,” he said In his first interview today. The former valet of William Desmond Taylor refused to talk. “If you all's from headquarters Jes‘ call the wagon,” he said. ‘‘Ah ain't talkin' to no one."

SAN FRANCISCO, Ca!.. Feb. 13. A now claimant to the estate of the murdered movie director, William Desmond Taylor, has appeared here. William Edward Taylor plana to leave today for Los Angeles in an attempt to establish that he is a son of the slain man. Similarity of pictures of the Los Angeles man with his recollection of pictures of his father, led William Edward Taylor to bellevo he at last h located his father. The San Francisco Taylor believes the man who was assassinated In Hollywood Is the man who married his mother, Olive Randall, in Wallace, Kan., in 1890, moving soon to Wyoming, where the local man was born. They were deserted In Wyoming by the husband and father, “William Taylor,” and the son was brought up by his grandfather to hate tho very memory of his father, he declared. NEGRO FACES FURTHER GRILLING LOS ANGELES, Feb, 13—Does Henry Pravey, negro servant of William Desmond Taylor, slain movie director, hold tho key to tho most baffling murder mystery that has ever come to the attention of the police! A considerable number of the Investigators who have been working tirelessly on the situation today have reached this conclusion. Thrice the valet-houseman has been questioned. At the coroner’s (Continued on Page Two.) Naval ‘ Reduction ’ Calls for Sum 3 Times 1916 Figures WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Secretary of Navy Denby encountered soma serious objections to his proposals ror naval appropriations when he appeared today before ,uo nun so Naval Affairs Committee with a schedule of reductions designed to reduce expenditures from 5478,000.000 to 5350,000,000 during the fiscal year 1933-23. “That will not do,” objected Representative Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania, tho committee chairman, when Denby had presented his figures. "Before the war in 1016 the cost of maintaining the navy, exclusive of construction was 5107,000,000. As we have taken out most of the construction by the limitation of armament agreement the people will not support a vote by ns for three times this pre-war cost of the Navy.”

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CRAIG AFTER CONCESSION IN PARLIAMENT Wishes No Legislation Until Ulster Border Assured. ASKS TROOPS’ USE British Urged to Place Detachments at Danger Points. BELFAST, Feb. 13.—Final ratification of the Irish peace treaty In the House of Commons by passing legislation legalizing the free state, may; be held up pending settlement of the Ulster border troubles. Sir James Craig, prim# minister ot Ulster, anounced today he had planned Introduction In the British Parliament of a resolution refusing to pass the Irish legislation until the Government promises not to alter the Ulster frontier without consent of Ulster Itself. The strength of the “Dlerhards” probably will be rallied to support such a resolution. If these plans fall, Craig said he had ethers which it would not be wise to announce at present. He also announced he had telephoned Lloyd George urging that British troops occupy Monaghan and other points in the Irish Free State to prevent forces gathering for further outrages against Ulster. No troops have been ordered Into Ireland from England. The British government, U was declared today, Is not disposed to put British soldiers on guard along the TTlster border unless requests are received from both the Belfast and (be Dublin governments. In some quarters It Is feared extremist Republicans in the Irish Free State may put 60 many obstacles in the way of Michael Collins that he will not be able to meet the border situation. Ulsterites who were seized by Sinn Feiners in County Fermanagh (In Ulster province) are reported to have been moved southward to County Cavan. County Cavan Is the southernmost county of Ulster, lying on the Free State line. There was considerable shooting here throughout the night, and In addition to three killed, several persona were wounded. Soldiers fired upon snipers in Kashir road, wounding a woman in the arm. The lawless e!emnt was quick to take advantage of the disorders aud general excitement and many stores were robbed.

TENSE SITUATION PREVAILS ON FRONTIER LONDON, Feb. 13.—Rifle and revolver firing was In progress In parts of Belfast throughout the entire night, according to word received from that city this morning. A man and a woman were shot dead at Belfast late Sunday night. A tense situation prevails along the Ulster frontier where bands cf re© publicans and bands of Orangemen confront each other ready for batrle. According to the Daily News, Sir James Craig, premier of the Unionist government of Ulster, proposes that large forces of British troops be sent to the Ulster border to patrol both the Ulster and the Free State side. Official announcement was made In Downing street that four battalion* of British troops which were originally (Continued on Page Two.) COPS DESTROY NINE BARRELS OF ‘MULE’ MASH Raid Reveals 24 Gallons of • Liquor, but Alleged Still Is Gone. Nine barrels of masb were destroyed by the police In a raid on the home of Harry Ingram. 4635 Arsenal avenue, today. In addition, the police confiscated twenty-four and a half gallons of “white mule." The police say there was a still at the bouse, but It was moved away last Wednesday. Ingram was charged with operating a blind tiger. A ten-gallon still, thirty gallons ot mash and a quart of "mule” were found at the home of James Russell, 4405 Ralston avenue. Russell was charged with operating a blind tiger. A blind tiger charge was placed against Ray Pierson, 1418 Blaine avenue, when a bottle of “mule” was found ia hi* possession. Harding Given Yap Treaty With Japan WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The Tap treaty, now signed by the United States and Japan, bringing to an end a dangerous controversy, was placed before President Harding today. The document will be sent to the Senate with a routine letter from the President.

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