Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1922 — Page 1

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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION TO DIRECT PIIORITT State Body Is Designated Coal Emergency Committee by McCray. BAN ON PROFITEERING Governor Says Mines Will Be Run Within Next Ten Days. Members of the public service commission will constitute the State coal emergency committee to take care of all priority orders for coal to be distributed to public institutions and utilities. Governor McCray anounced today. The Governor issued a statement in which he assured the public of his belief coal would be mined in Indiana in sufficient quantities to take care of emergency needs within the next ten days, and called upon loyal citizens to see that a fair price was asked and that no profiteering be allowed. The Governor's action anticipated a telegram which he received from Secretary Hoover concerning coal distribution today. Hessler Wires Refusal John Hessler, president of the Indiana miners, telegraphed the Governor he would not agree to meet the State operators in joint State agreement, maintaining the operators had repudiated former contracts and that Phil H. Penna. secretary of the operators’ association had admitted that the policy of the operators was a mistake. Will Consider Appeal Concerning the Governor’s appeal to him to grant licenses to a sufficient number of miners to man Indiana mines for emergency coal, Hessler said he was not empowered to make such concession but he would submit the matter before a meeting of the district executive board Monday. PARKCUSTQDIftN FACES CHARGES Eleven Affidavits Allege He Was Cruel to Boys and Dogs. Eleven affidavits charging Lon Wilson, 1423 Hoyt Ave., beat and kicked two 17-year-old boys, who incurred his anger in St. Clair Park, were given to Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff today by Policewomen Emily Holsapple and Anna Buck. Wilson is the park custodian. Pierce Yowell, 615 N. East St„ alleged he was on a park bench when Wilson hit him twice on the head with his club, kicked and cursed him. He swore he has seen "Wilson curse and beat dogs. Wilson H. Kers, 624 N. Alabama St., who said he has to wear glasses, swore the policewomen rescued him from Wilson on July 26 after Wilson had choked, slapped and beaten him. Affidavits of others, including Es ther Parson, 19. 2181 Station St„ recreation director at the park, bofe out the boys. Mrs. Holsapple said Wilson became angry at the children and shut of? the drinking fountain for a full day. "There are two sides to the story, and the matter Is being investigated," said R. Walter Jarvis, director of recreation. GOLF - NO LONGER FREE Fee Will Be Charged at South Grove Aug. 15. Golf will cease to be a free pastime in Indianapolis Aug, 15. Harry Schopp, professional. in charge of South Grove, the last free municipal links, said it Is impossible to prevent "cutting in” and other ” abuses on a course where fees are not charged and the board of park commissioners today decreed a charge of 25 cents per person after Aug. 15. Fees of 50 cents at Highland and 75 cents at Riverside also were ordered. Riverside now charges 50 cents. EANKS SHOW GAIN Deposits hi State Increase $19,147,357.33 Since Jan. 1. Resources and deposits in State and private hanks in Indiana have increased since Jan. 1, the State banking department announced today. Deposits have Increased $19,147,357.33 and resources, $18,256,891.54. This report compares favorably with the report issued at the beginning of the year which showed a decrease in resources in the previous six months of $5,084,874.76 and in deposits of SB,661.242.69. UNSETTLED Indianapolis: Ltnsettled weatuer tonight and Sunday; possibly showers; not much change in temperature. Indiana and Illinois; Unsettled weather tonight and Sunday; possibly showers; not much change in temperature. Highest temperature at 7 o'clock this morning: Mobile. Ala.; New Orlears, La., and Tampa, Fla., 80 degrees. Lowest temperature, Helena, Mont., and j?an Francisco, 52 degrees. B-R-R-R By United Press SCRANTON, Pa.. July 29.—Snow fell during a storm which swept the upper Lackawanna valley last night, destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of crops

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TOM SUMS SAYS: 1 Since gold was found there, all isn’t quiet \ along the Potomac. ; Future Irish histories will have the I 7 present written on as- > \ bestos. SIMS. Men’s fall suits are termed “sober." j No hip pockets, maybe. If we get out of life what we put I into it some will get out quick. The girl who thinks kissing is dan- j I gerous read it in a book. Lots of people travel first-class who j j evidently are not. Voliva says: "If my wife ran for | office I would run for the lake,” and j we hope she runs. We know a case of nerves that isn’t j a thing but a case of nerve. Two can’t see a picture show as ; cheaply as one. Prince of 'Wales is a social lion j Every social lion meets a tamer. j Maybe these golfers are training for j j the railroad strike. i After being in America seventy-five , j years an alien has become a citizen. He thinks he will like the place. The average man wants a 1923 model auto and a 1900 model wife. "Bootleg Queen Slain” —headline. | It seems the king crowned her. It is about time for something worse j to take the place of jazz. Health hint: Be sure your circle! of friends is square. Dad estimates the strikes cost I enough to send a son to college. Tell your wife the truth and let: her suspect where you haven't been, j New York washerwoman sues for SIO,OOO wash money. The bill must have run two weeks. FOUCHIY DIE; WIFE FIS MIN WMF ‘He Laughed at Me,’ Mrs. Carl F. Kimberlin Says—Remarks Prompted Shooting, "He laughed at me,” Mrs. Margaret j Kimberlin, wife of Patrolman Carl F. Kimberlin, 1217 E. .Sturm Ave., gave as her reason for shooting her hus- j band early today. Kimberlin was taken to the city hospital in a serious j condition. The first report was that Kimberlin shot himself accidentally. Was Climbing Stairway Mrs. Kimberlin said she shot her : husband as he climbed the stairway j to come to her room following an automobile ride and quarrel. She said she pawned her jewels to otbain enough money to pay the first installment on an automobile. She said Kimberlin took the automobile and said that he was going out to "look all the women over.” Accused of Unfaithfulness. The quarrel started when Kiniberlln’s wife accused him of trying to make an engagement with another woman. He refused to admit or deny it and had laughed at her, she said.

YESTERDAY there appeared in the news columns of newspapers throughout ‘the country two telegrams throwing great light on the coal and railroad controversies and the Government position therein. The telegrams reveal two things: That many workers misunderstand the Government. Many persons in the Government don’t understand the workers. One telegram was written by J. Van Cleve Dean of Chattanooga, Tenn. It appears that Dean speaks Only for himself, voices eo official view and his telegram doubtless would have gone unnoticed had not President Harding picked it out from among the hundreds that reach the "White House and given it to the public along with an answer. Perhaps Dean’s selfcoined and high-sounding title of “chairman of publicity Committee” had some effect. He isn’t that at all. Inquiry among national leaders of the railroad men reveals that Dean is unknown to them. “For you or any Governor to attempt to operate the mines • or railroads by military force,” Dean wired the President, “or to attempt to draft men into mining or railroad service, would be an attempt to establish involuntary servitude.” Dean of course proceeds from a false premise Mr. Harding has indicated no purpose to attempt the things Dean suggests. Many wild stories have gone out of Washington concerning the stern measures the President is alleged to have in mind, hut there has been no action or utterance —save on one occasion in the use of the unfortunate word “draft” by the chief executive that would properly cause any laboring man to fear an attempt to institute forced labor in America. Mr. Harding made this quite clear in his reply. He defends the course he thus far has taken, and rather places on the workers in the two industries the blame for the lack of success that has attended his efforts. Now as a matter of fact neither employer or employee is without fault. Any person who has studied the case of the miners from the time when the operators’ organization broke their solemn contract to meet with the miners’ organization in April and anybody who has studied the railroad workers’ case from the time when the railroads first began to enjoin the process and disregard the decrees of the railroad wage board, will not be able wholly ta accept President Harding’s view of cauaes and events.

RUN! J—" "LWhen Frank Kamps 111 was ar- ; raigned in Criminal Court, with six other 17-year-old hoys on a charge of . wrongfully posse ssing automobiles, a Times photographer attempted to ! snap him. His father attempted to J prevent the picture being taken and rushed the camera man, shouting: “Run. Frank, run like hell!” J And Frank obeyed his father. WESTERN ROADS OPPOSE HARDING STRIKE Pm Leading Executives Stand Pat ° #■ • on Seniority Issue in Settlement. By United Pres* CHICAGO, July 29 —leading west- ! em railroad executives will strenu- j i ously oppose any settlement of the j shopmen's strike which would rei store seniority rights to the men who ; walked out. At the conferences next Tuesday in New York to consider President. Harding’s proposal to end the dispute, the ; western company managers will stand j pat on their demands that the strikers , | must go to the bottom of the list on ■ their return to work. At the same time the general ■ j opinion in union circles here was that the meeting of the ninety shop craft I chairman to be held in Chicago si- j I multaneously with the New York ex- j ; ecutives’ conference would be willing |to accept the President’s proposal ! that seniority standing of the strikers ' be placed just behind the old workmen who did not strike, but ahead of the strike-breakers. TRAIN HITS AUTO John Plake, Driver, Killed and his Wife Seriously Injured. By Unit'd Press MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., July 29. John Plake, 71, Fairdale, 111., w-as instantly killed and his wife seriously injured when a Pore Marquette freight train hit their automobile, east of the | city.

THE HINDRANCES OF MR. HARDING—AN EDITORIAL

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1922

LEWIS REFUSES PLEA IF STATES FIR CUE SUPPLY President of Miners’ Union Declares Permission Disorganizing. ANTICIPATES SETTLEMENT Operators of Central Field Will Meet Wednesday for Conference. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. July 29.—D1-ect parley to bring about peace in the coal war, t.ow in its 130th dav wilt be begun on "Wednesday when operators from central competitive fields and miners come face to face in a conference here, it was reported today. Refusing to confirm the exact date, John L. Lewis, miners’ chief, announced the hour of settlement was “at. hand.” Lewis announced that miners' leaders will not give in on the matter of mining coal for State and municipal institutions. Lewis held a long conference with Carl Yoyng, labor commissioner of Michigan, at which meeting the Michigan man pleaded for per- | mission to have sufficient coal mined j to supply the hospitals, jails, water, gas and electric light plants of his State. To grant permission to certain min- | ers to mine coal would tend to disrupt j the union organization, Lewis pointed | out. Month Enough , Thinks Dora f to Retain Husband By United Press CHICAGO. July 29.—Dora Boob was convinced she had the right system in changing husband* every thirty : days. Dora, according to authorities, is a “marrying fool.” They declare she has married an even dozen husbands during the last year. Dora explains it all by pointing to : the marriage license where it says "Return in thirty days.” She claim* this applies to the husband. “A month is long enough to live | with any man,” Dora said from a cell today. "I don’t get tired of ’em in less than a month. I live up to what \ the law allows and, as stated on the i marriage certificate, return ’em every thirty days.” Dora didn’t know Just what the name of her last husband was. A psychopathic court Is investigating the case. FIND STOLEN AUTO Policeman and Judge See Men Abandon Car. Patrolman F. A. Swank and Special Judge Ralph Updike, were riding In an automobile on White River boulevard last night when they saw two men run from an automobile near the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. An investigation showed the car was owned by William Blaro, 1540 Kappes ; St., and had been reported stolen from | Twenty-Sixth St. and White River i boulevard.

Threat of Demoralized Nation Is Believed to Be Less Ominous By United Preen WASHINGTON, July 28.—Thethreat of Industrial demoralization Is over. Administration leaders stated today as President Harding reduced to writing his compromise plan for a settlement of the railroad strike and the presidential coal comuiitteo started Its work of rationing coal. The White House is confident rs a settlement of the railroad strike, some time next week. However the present discussion is not concerned w r ith that phase of the Dean incident. What concerns us here—all of us—is the reasons underlying Dean’s mistaken belief that the Government is prepared to drive men to work by force. It goes hack to the quality of the President’s official and unofficial advisers and where Mr. Harding has been unfortunate rather than unmindful in arriving at a sense of value of the various acts and incidents in the industrial struggle. It goes back to the formation of the Cabinet. Manifestly the President, cannot himself study nor know the detail of the greatest business concern in the world—the Government of the United States. Thus the President has a Cabinet —a body of official advisers to deal with broad subdivisions of the Government. From time to time Congress has added Cabinet members and subdivided departments. Among these grand-divisions of Government is the Department of Labor. Mr. Harding’s Secretary of Labor is a line, honest genial chap. But he isn’t a laboring man. Nor does he come from, nor represent labor. Even if he did he is not strong enough to enforce his opinion at the Cabinet table. The result is that Herbert Iloover, wisely selected as representing the employer class, lias elbowed Davis out and the impossible situation is presented of labor’s cause being in the hands of the employers’ vicar. There is, in fact, no spokesman for labor in the Cabinet. There are men acquainted with industrial problems, hut from the other side, not labor’s side. Os these, Andrew Mellon is *► eoa&picufms ex&xojpia, Mellon, at tlie time he *was chosen

MADALYNNE’S JURY DEADLOCKED ■. 1 ■ MRS. MADALYN NE OBENCHAIN. By United Press | Shenk early today they were unable LOS ANGELES. July 29.—Seven to reach a verdict, women and fivo men comprising the It was reported the Jury stood Bto Jury in whose hands the fate of beau- 4 for acquittal. t fu! Madalynne Obenchain, charged Judge Shenk declared he would hold with the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, the Jury forty-eight hours longer If has been placed, reported to Judge necessary. Miss Indianapolis FOUR additional members to the committee of judges to select Miss Indianapolis to represent the city in the National Parade of Cities to be held at Atlantic City, Sept. 6-8, were named today when Miss Margaret Scott, director of the In-Var Literary Studio; Dr. Robert J. Aley, president of Butler College; John B. Reynolds, general secretary of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, accepted invitations. Those previously named are Mrs. Myra Richards, sculptress; Mile. Theo Ilewes, teacher of classical dancing; Mrs. Felix T. McWh'rter, and Stuart Walker. Photographs are now beginning to arrive. All protographs should be sent to the Times Pageant Editor and each photograph should include the name and address. This must not be overlooked.

COOLIDGE FALLS Vice President Snaps At Chance to Hide in ‘‘Lizzie.-’ By United Xrtrs WASHINGTON, July 29.—The mighty, so the saying goes, occasionally fall. Vice -President Coolidge ‘'feU" for a “flivver” when his chauffeur failed him. instead of waiting for his limousine, Coolidge snapped at the opportunity to speed to the Capitol in a "lizzie."

LATEST CONVENIENCE Man Rents House With Built-in Still. There are built-in bookcases and built-in beds, but it remained for Charles Hank, R. F. D. Nox 2S, Brill St., to rent a home with a built-in still. Hank said that the house, still included, only cost him $35 a month rent, but it cost him S3OO and costs in city court today for using the newj est built-in convenience.

Secretary of the Treasury, if not now, was one of the largest coal operators in the State of Pennsylvania, a State of large coal operators. Incidentally, he was reputed to he the second richest man in America. There is Daugherty. There is Denby, automobile manufacturer, who, as Secretary of the Navy, discharged several thousand navy yard workers with thirty minutes’ notice. There is Weeks, Boston bond broker. There is Fall, mine owner and cattleman. Now, without reflecting in the least on the integrity of any one of these men, or refusing to concede them intelligence and high purpose, one cannot refrain from asking— Where in this Cabinet is labor? So much for the President’s official advisers. Consider more briefly his unofficial advisers and companions. The first name that will pop into the mind of the labor man who l’cuds the newspapers will be that of E. B. McLean of Washington. He is known as a newspaper publisher. In Illinois he is known as a mine owner. The second name doubtless would be Davis Elkins, more eminent as a coal mine owner than as a Senator. Perhaps it is bad taste here to refer to the President’s personal friendships. It is unavoidable if it is desired to get at what is in the minds of the workers of America. Mr. Harding’s telegram to Dean, shows that he desires and believes that lie deserves the full confidence of the laboring people. None can question Mr. Harding’s sincerity, his honesty, his patriotism. He has worked day and night through these hot summer days. He is high minded and desperately anxious to serve his country and his fellow men—all of them. His telegram to Dgan—his daily conduct—shows that. But his information is filtered to him through minds specialized on the other side. The light that reaches him is deflected as by a prism. To say the railroad workers or the coni miners are 100 per cent right, is absurd. They are human. To say that the railroad executives and coal operators have not fostered trouble, flaunted the Government and the orderly processes of the law is equally absurd. It' is almost certain that Mr. Harding will, in the end, bring substantial justice to the labor situation. If he does it will he in spite of his retinue. i "When he does he, himself, will be surprised to fip4 how far ho haa shifted his point of view,

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SEVEN BOV THIEVES SEE LIGHT SENTENCE: CQIIRI PUTS BI4ME OH MS Six Months at State Farm and SIOO Fine Is Limit on Two Counts. --- ■ - MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE IS DISMISSED Four Are Found Guilty of Unlawful Possession and Are Given Lesser Penalty. Blame for conditions making possible the theft of forty-two automobiles by seven 17-year-old boys was placed on the parents by Judge A. Collins in Criminal Court today when he found the boys guilty and passed light sentences on them. Three of the boys, Samuel Wilson, 3932 Washington Boulevard; Robert Risley, 751 East McCarty street, and Albert Johnson, 808 South State avenue, charged with manslaughter and failure to stop after an accident, as the result of their running into and killing Miss Josephine Burns, 18, Sylva Ann Apartments, at Thirty-sixth street and Carrollton avenue, the night of July 12, were freed on a manslaughter charge The court sentenced them to six months on the State firm for the “cowardly way in which they left the scene of the accident.” A similar sentence and a SIOO fine was imposed on each for unlawful possession of a motor vehicle.

AUTO FACTORY TO IE REMOVED EM Till III! LaFayette Company Will Go to Milwaukee, Charles W. Nash Announces. The LaFayette Motors Corporation will transfer its operations to Milwaukee, VVis., the latter part of this i year, according to an announcement j today by Charles W. Nash. The com- j pany, it was announced expects to : benefit by a closer association with | the Nash group of industries of Ken- j osha and Milwaukee, of which it is a financial unit. I Land has been acquired adjacent to ! the Milwaukee Nash factory and work I will start immediately on a plant for i the exclusive manufacture of LaFayj ette cars. Mr. Nash predicted the comj pany will be operating in the new fac- | tory by Jan. 1. j Production was started in the Indi- | anapolis plant two and one-half years j ago. During that period approxi- ■ mately 1,200 Lafayette cars have been delivered. It is reported tentative negotiations are under way for the sale of the | present Lafayette property at Mars' Hill, an industrial suburb of Indianapolis.

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All of the boys were indicted for vehicle taking, grand larceny, and unlawful possession. The last count, to which they were found guilty, is the one carrying the least penalty. Those sentenced on this charge were: Frank Kamps, 111, 34 v E. Thirty-Seventh St., who received a fine of SIOO and costs and a sentence of sixty days on the State Farm with William Johnson, 20 E. Eighteenth St.; Gordon Crowe, 1512 N. Pennsylvania St., SSO and costs and thirty days in Jail, and Harry MoQuinn, 16, Rural Route.E. Box 149, SIOO and costs and six months on the State Farm. Judge Deplores Conditions The most powerful detrimental influence on the young men, and aa such, a condition to be deplored. Judge Collins said, was the fact that Ia large number of automobiles were | parked in the grounds of the Arsenal i Technical High School, which all of j the thieves attended. “It is wrong to permit pupils to I drive to school in automobiles, when they do not live in a rural district,” Judge Collins emphatically declared. Blames Movie Shows The other harmful incentive to do : wrong, the court stated as his belief, was the visualization of crime by motion picture. “It is impossible to understand how boys of the age of these defendants could absent themselves from home for long periods of time and no inquiry made as to their whereabouts,” Judge Collins said. “I want every parent in the courtroom to hear what ! I have to say.”

[NICEST MOTHER PUZZLES DBETGB Ten-Year-Old Elizabeth Irwin Gives Birth to Healthy Boy. By United Preen HARDIN, Ohio. July 29.—Elizabeth Irwin, 10, said to bo “America's youngest mother," today resolutely withheld the identity of her child’s father. The baby, a boy, weighed seven pounds at birth and is apparently in the best of health. Birth of the child was declared “the most puzzling phenomenon of the age,” by Dr. D. H. Ryan of McKinley Hospital at Columbus. ‘EAGIFIs CROW Police (ailed When “Eagle” \ttacks Children. Resident of the 2500 block, Carrolton Ave., called the police today,'saying that a large bird, resembling an eagle was attacking children in that neighborhood. - When the police arrived, the “eagle” was found to be a crow. MISSING TWO WEEKS Youth Joins Army but Fails to Report for Djity. Ed Badgley, 19, 2711 Burton Ave., has been missing from his home for two weeks. He enlisted in the army but failed to report, the police were told. A suit case was found uc-ar Reelsville and identified as being the propert yof Badgley. WHAT DID YOU SEE? E. TV. J. saw a conductor put the trolley on a guy wire and wonder why the car wouldn't run. J. P. L. saw a girl at Ohio and Meridian Sts. give a fellow three cigarettes from her case. F. D. saw a man wash his false teeth in the drink,ng fountain west of the Monument. H. C. F. saw a man headed for the golf links carrying clubs and an umbrella. J. R. A. saw a small boy trying- to teach a goal to chew gum.