Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1922 — Page 1

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MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED RY M’CRAY

MELLON HOLDS KEY I PENCE IN GOAL STRIKE * * Secretary of Treasury Has Influence Enough to Bring Peace. VAST HOLDINGS IN INDIANA Ogle Owes Present Place at Head of Operators to Cabinet Member. By c. c. LYOX Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Secretary of the Treasury" Andrew W. Mellon Wednesday appeared to hold the key to the settlement of the Nation-wide coal strike. The •‘Mellon” group of Pittshugh stood charged by leaders of the striking miners with being the one big, powerful influence that was holding coal operators in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana in lifie against attending the four-State conference of miners and operators, called for Cleveland next Monday by John L. Lewis, president of the miners. Control Big Company The Mellons control the Pittsburgh Coal Company, the largest operators in the Pennsylvania field. The Pittsbugh Coal Company dictates to the smaller operators in Pennsylvania. * According to information here. President Harding has had several conferences within the last few days with Secretary Mellon, trying to induce him to swing the Pittsburg Coal Company into line for a settlement of the strike. A statement today from a big leader of the miners relative to Mellon said: “The Pennsylvania operators will go into a four-State conference if Andrew W. Mellon will say the word. Mellons in Indiana i “The Mellons, according to our Information, own $5,000,000 worth of stock in the Vandalia Coal Company of Indiana. A nod from Andrew" W. Mellon will bring the Vandalia company into the conference, and this will cause the smaller operators of Indiana to follow suit. “The Mellons, through the vast ramifications of their banking anil business connections also have a powerful influence in the Sunday Creek Coal Company of Ohio. Many Ohio operators will follow Sunday Creeks lead. Made Ogle President “It was the great influence of the Pittsburgh Coal Company that made Albert Ogle of Indiana president of the National Coal Association this year. We have always considered Ogle merely as a representative of the Mellon interests. “Ogle, we think, would change his position instantly If the Mellons told him to. “We hr.ve no hesitancy In telling President Harding that it is a waste of time for him to try to deal collectively with the coal operators of the country. At his Cabinet table sits the one man who can bring the operators to accept the four-State conference —Andrew W. Mellon.”

THREE ARE FINED Gambling House Trio Found Guilty Following Complaint. Kosti Ivanhof. 37. of 179 Bright St., proprietor of a poolroom at 426 W. Washington St., was fined SIOO on a charge of running a gambling house and SSO for gambling in city court today. Judgment w,as continued on a charge of bunco steering. Pat Gorman. 26, Washington, D. C., arrested in Ivanhofs place, was given a suspended sentence of SSO and costs. George Elick, 25, of 128 S. West St.. was fined SSO and costs for frequenting a gambling house. Gorman complained to police when he lost $l4O j in Ivanhofs place with dice he said | were loaded. LOCAL MAN KILLED William Hewitt Hit by Runaway Car at Cincinnati. William Hewitt, 19, airbrake inspector. 903% Virginia Ave., is dead : at St. Mary’s Hospital In Cincinnati, following a railroad accident. He, with two companions, were under a car which was struck by a runaway car in the Big Four yards, reports received here said. SERGEANT SPRINTS Catches Truck After Driver Smashes IDs Motorcycle. Sergeant Halstead of the motorcycle squad pursued an auto truck on fcfct tnd arrested the driver on charges of failure to stop after an accident today. Halstead leaned his motorcycle against a curb w’hile he used a police call box. The truck, driven by Charles Caw. 22, of 1013 High St., smashed the motorcycle. THE WEATHER Generally fair weather was prelicted for tonight and Thursday, with titt’e changje in temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 65 12 (noon) ..... 78 7 a. m 68 11 a. m 76 8 a. m 71 1 p. m 81 9 a. m 73 2 p. tn... ..... 83 te a_ u

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TOM SIMS SAYS: fGolf keeps one out in the open; bu£ not paying rent does the same. Our idea of fun would be two joy-killers shooting at each other and both of them crack shots. SIMS. * Naming Pullmans is ruining our alphabet. Maybe a barber shaving himself says; "Your head needs washing, sir.” These strange cries coming from a Florida swamp may be a train caller on his vacation. The man who remarried his divorced wife won't be hearing forever about her former husband. The average song hit does it about three months, then misses. "Keep one foot on the floor” ,’s a good rule in shooting pool aid a better one in kicking. Another -rowd may try to scale Mt. Everest. They can train by living in three-story apartments. The man who found the ant a model of industry was a picnicker watching the grub. Only a few teams still claim this year’s pennant; the others have started claiming next year's. It looks as if the man who figured a fly lays about a million eggs didn't count them all. Difference between an amateur golfer and amateur gardener is one uses the holes he digs. HEATH LIST GROWS AA/fONEPIEEATERS Total of Victims Reaches Six in List of Restaurant Patrons. By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—Death list of victims of arsenic pie served hundreds of customers in Shelboume’s restaurant in the Broadway district, mounted to six today, while health authorities expected more fatalities within a few hours. While doctors were working frantically to save the lives of a score or more of other victims, police scoured the city for "Louie,” the baker's helper, last name unknown, who Is reported to have prepared dough for the arsenic pie. Police say the baker’s helper has disappeared. Asa result of the continually growing death list among victims of the poison pie, health authorities today revoked the license of Shelbourne's restaurant and issued orders that It be closed and guarded until every particle of food in the place has been analyzed.

TWO ARE FINED Justice of Peace Finds Men Guilty as Charged. John Gray, 44Kentucky Ave., was fined $lO and costs and William Blankenship, 422 Goodlet Ave., $1 and costs on a charge of assault and bat- : tery on Lester Bagwell. The trial took place before Justice | Os the Peace Court of T. E. Maho’m. | Charges of drawing deadly weapons, ' carrying concealed weapons, assault j and battery on Elnora Bagwell were dismissed.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, INVENTOR OF TELEPHONE, DIES IN NOVA SCOTIA

By United Press BADDECK, Nova Scotia, Aug. 2. j Alexander Graham Bell, 75, inventor | of the telephone and one of the counJ try’s most distinguished scientists, I died here today. The cause of Dr. Bell’s death was said to have been progressive anaemia. The wife, daughter and son-in-law of the inventor were present at the death bed. Alexander Graham Bell was born : in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 3, 1847. He was educated at Edinburgh and London universities. He married Mabel Gardiner, the daughter of G. G. Hubbard, in 1877. He migrated to Canada in 1870 and to Boston in 1871. afterward becoming professor of vocal physiology in Boston University. He invented the telephone, for which a patent was granted March 17, 1576. He also Invented the photophone, induction balance and telephone probe for painless detection of bullets In the human body for which he was awarded honorable M. D. degree by the University of Heidelberg at its 500th anniversary. Inventor of Grapliophone. With C. A. Bell and Sumner Tainter he Invented the graphophone In 1883. He founded and endowed, in 18S7. the Volta bureau for increase of knowledge relating to the deaf; was the founder and ex-president of the ; American Association to Promote j Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, to ! which he contributed $250,000; was regent of Smithsonian Institute; Na- ; tional Academy of Sciences and the National Geographical Society. He was the author of many scientific and educational monographs, including "A Memoir on the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race." Although. Alexander Graham Ball’s

CONGRESS FACES WRECKAGE IF lIS EIJIMCIAM Legislation on Strike May Upset Republican Plans, Senators Fear. DIFFICULTIES OF PRESIDENT Conference Called to Talk Over Refusal of Roads to Make Peace. By United News WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—President Harding, having failed in his efforts to settle the railroad and coal strikes by proposals to bring the opposing factions together, wa* expected to call a conference of the Cabinet and leaders of Congress at the White House Wednesday to discus.* the situation. That Harding may encounter difficulty if he seeks to have Congress pass laws to end the strike seemed probable when, at a dinner given by Senator Lodge at his home, Senate leaders expressed concern lest the debate of such measures might wreck the entire present legislative program. Will Place Responsibility President Harding, having received advices from Government agents at Chicago that the striking shopmeh have accepted his peace proposal, is preparing to place full responsibility upon the executives for the continuance of the strike. At the' same time the President will warn them he has powers to protect the public interests which be will not to use. if necessary. NOTICES ARE POSTED Executives Reassure Workers Their Rights Arc "Guaranteed.” By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—On orders of railroad executives representing 143 carriers, who refused President Harding's proposal for settlement of the rail strike, because of the seniority issue, notices were posted today in shops of the country. Thi: order “guaranteed” that there would be no Impairment of the seniority rights of those now at work, through any settlement of the strike. ( The executives left the way open for a compromise on two other points of Harding’s proposal: Recognition of the vaildity of labor board decisions and the withdrawal of all litigation growing out of the strike. There was some criticism o' the way the President resented his proposal. Some of the conferees regarded it as an ultimatum. The executives declared much harm already had been done “by repeated publication of rumors that the loyal men and the new men are to be sacrificed to the strikers.” WOMAN LOSES RACE Mrs. William Gay Brown Defeated in West Virginia Primary. By United Press CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 2. Senator Howard Sutherland. Republican, and former Congressman M. M. Neely, Democrat, were nominated for the United States Senate in the West Virginia primary, returns from more than half the State indicated today. Reports showed Sutherland leading 11. C. Ogden, Wheeling publisher, by 9,000 votes. Neely had out-distanced Mrs. William Gay Brown by 8,000 votes.

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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. name is indissolubly linked with the invention of the telephone, an autobiography recently published in the National Geographic Magazine at-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 1922

Ku-Klux Klan in Full Regalia Conduct Ritualistic Ceremony at Batty Funeral

Twelve masked members of the Ku-Klux Klan, in full regalia, appeared at the funeral of Edward Batty, 917 N. Tibbs Ave., late Tuesday afternoon and accompanied the body to Crown Hill cemetery, where ritualistic ceremonies were held at the grave.

STRIKEBREAKERS' READY FBI DUTY Chicago Street Car Lines Preparing to Oper ate Cars With Unorganized Crews. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 2. —With an army of strikebreakers from New York reported to step in and run Chicago's surface cars, police prepared for war today. At the same time agencies of the city. State and Federal Government launched to end the city s traction tie-up. James Waddell head of a nationally known strikebreaking agency established headquarters in a local hotel. It was reported that more than five hundred experienced motormen and conductors from New York were held in local hotels waiting for work. GUARANTY TRUST RUYEROF STUTZ Allan Ryan Collateral Brings S2O Per Share at Public Auction. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—George L. Burr, vice president of the Guaranty Trust Company, bought this after noon 1X1,614 1-3 shares of Stutz stoek, left with the trust company by Allan A. Ryan, and sold at public auction today. Twenty dollars a share was the price.

tached great importance to his research work in connection with efforts to assist the Uqaf to hear. Experiments With Ear Beginning his experiments with a detached human ear, secured for the purpose. Bell devoted his ingenuity to assisting Mabel Hubbard, who afterward became his wife, to regain something of her faculty of hearing, lost in an attack of scarlet fever. IDs success in this one accomplishment would have definitely assured his place as a leading American scientist. With an artificial skull Bell developed remarkable achievements both as to hearing and the reproduction of sound. His Interest In elocution was a heritage from his father, and for many years he gave his entire attention to this profession. Great Discovery Accident The discovery of the telephone, was an accident. In 1874, Bell, then a

CONDOLENCE # By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Augr. 2.—President Harding today sent the following telegram of condolence to Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, widow of the inventor: "The announcement of your eminent husband's death comes as a great shock to me. In common with all his countrymen, I have learned to revere’him as one of the great benefactors of the race, and one of the foremost Americans of all generations. He will be mourned and honored by humankind everywhere as one who served it greatly, untiringly and unselfishly. (Signed) "WARREN G. HARDING.”

The Klansmen stood silently through the funeral. At the cemetery two remained in automobiles, while eight formed en aisle through which the corpse was borne. Two of the hooded figures with more resplendent trappings than the others, stood facing the coffin with a four-foot “fiery cross” made from red

CROWD OF MINERS GREETS TROOPS AT BRAZIL STATION

By BLYTHE HENDRICKS. Times Staff Correspondent ABOARD SPECIAL TROOP TRAIN, BRAZIL,. Ind., Aug. 2. Scores of miners met the first section of the Indiana National Guard troop .trains as it arrived here this afternoon. They laughed and made Joking remarks to the troops, but there was no show of ill feeling. Thu arrival of the train here was the first inkling the men had of their destination, the mines of the Roland Powers Collieries Company, in Posey Township, Clay County, where they will enforce martial law. On board the train the soldiers were Issued 100 rounds of ammunition. The troops traveled In four sections, the first two carrying men with light equipment, arms and ammunition, the third carrying supplies and the fourth the commisary department. The favorite song was “Where Do We Go From Here?" as the train steamed through the corn fields. The boys, called from a vacation at Camp Knox. Ky., sweltered under tin hats and heavy blanket rolls. Rifles had been issued and men in a baggage car In front were assembling machine guns for action. The first section left Camp Knox at 6 o'clock this morning. The order to entrain was issued at 3 o’clock last night and as a result the troops spent a sleepless night expecting momentarilly to move. On board were numerous Indianapolis boys, who looked somewhat long lngly from the windows of the train as it stopped at the Union Station on its way westward. “Where are we going?" they shouted to newspaper men on the platform. Nobody knew. Most of the men had been unable to Inform relatives of their movements and asked persons standing around the train to mail letters for them. With hundreds of tin-hatted heads

young college professor dabbling In science, was trying to improve upon Morse's telegraph by sending ten or twelve messages at the same time along a single wire. In Boston he enlisted the aid of Thomas A. Watson, mechanic, in a small experimental workshop, and after working on the original Idea for several months without much success. Bell suddenly hit upon the Idea of sending speech by Wire. From a crude tangle of wires and magnets in his experimental workshop in Philadelphia, Bill saw his invention grow Into a %-ast system that weaves instantaneous speech all over the world. Didn’t Like Telephone An apparent incongruity In the latter days of Bell's life was his aversion for a modern telephone. “It’s a nuisance,” he said in explanation of his refusal to permit an Instrument In his house. “America’s greatest gift to civilization” Is the characterization of science for the telephone, the invention of which, notwithstanding his seeming inconsistency, was the foundation of Bell’s large private fortune. YOUNG MOTHER ILL Authorities Say Stepfather Maintains Stubborn Silence. By United Press HARDIN, Ohio, Aug. 2.—Sudden relapse in the condition of Elizabeth Irwin, 10, "America’s youngest mother." today blocked plans of authorities to probe the paternity of her son. Assistant Prosecutor Trubey said the girl’s father, Rev. L. W. Irwin, Methodist minister, had refused stead- , lastly to implicate a,y one.

and white flowers, while the Shepherds of the Forestry went through their services. The two cross-bearers took it to the head of the grave. All knelt, facing the coffin, as the leader snapped his fingers. They spent a full minute ir. silent prayer, then arose and marched to their automobiles to speed away.

sticking as far as possible out of the windows, the train recalled the days of the war, when troop trains were common In Indianapolis. The first section carried the Ist Battalion of the 151st Infantry and the second section carried the 2d Battalion. The band was left behind In camp with the 3d Battalion. The boys were In good trim for any work that may be before them. They have been on the rifle range and have been learning to handle* their equipment At Indianapolis the train picked up a number of enlisted men who had not gone to camp and a number of officers who have been In Indianapolis conferring with Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith. Among the officers were Maj. Pearl Davis, commanding the battalion; Capt. James V. Briggs, Capt. Albert H. Whitcomb and Capt. Clelfton. Col. D. Wray De Prez of Shelbyvllle, commander of the 161st Infantry, was in command of the two battalions. Maj. W. B. Montgomery, Frankfort, commanded the second battalion. Troops In the battalions are: Company A, Bhelbyville; Company B, Oreensburg; Company C, Rushvil’.e: Company D, Indianapolis; Company E, Darlington; Company F, Frankfort; Company G, Floral Company H, Indianapolis; Headquarters Company. ShelbyvtUe; Service Company. Frankfort, and battalion headquarters troops from Indianapolis. Officers of the Indianapolis companies nre: Capt Albert H. Whitcomb, First Lieutenant Russell C. lane and Second Lieutenant-Atlee P. Stenz of Company D and Capt. William Klelfgen. First Lieutenant Emmett C. Tolle and Second Lieutenant Arch D. Ball of Company IL CHARGES FLY FAST By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Aug. 2.—ln a statement Issued today President John Hessler of District 11, United Mine Workers, charges that A. M. Ogle, president of the National Coal Association and one of the Indiana operators who Is leading the fight against an interstate Joint conference of operators and miners, “owns and operates two mines in the non-union fields of West Virginia and is now receiving handsome prices for such coal during the present strike.”

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By Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-—lnterest in the coal strike centers about the Secretary of the Treasury today. That a member of President Harding's Cabinet actually holds power to bring about a peace conference was announced to the surprise of the public today. Mellon's coal holdings, including those in Indiana, are said to be so extensive that he actually dictated the elevation of A. M. Oglo the presidency of the gsnization.

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GOVERNOR RUSHES TROOPS INTO CLAY COUNTY; WILL PROTECT MINE WORKINGS Destination of Soldiers Is Kept Secret as Two Troop Trains Pass Through Indiana. FOUR TOWNS UNDER MILITARY All Are In Posey Township, Clay County —Executive Proclamation Orders Peace in District. By ROBERT W. SPARKS Martial law was proclaimed by Governor McCray today, covering eight square miles of Posey Township, Clay County. The territory included the towns of Staunton, Cloverland, Williamstown and Turner. In this territory are numerous surface or strip mines, including the property of the Roland-Powers Collieries Company, which the Governor has seized.

The company is now in the hands of a Federal receiver. The declaration of martial law followed orders moving two battalions of the 151 kt infantry to the coal fields. The troops were expected to arrive this afternoon. The motor transport corps was bnsy rounding up equipment of the various units at Shelbyville, Greensburg, Rushville, Darlington, Frankfort and Flora, which was not taken to Camp Knox and not needed there because the guard was in Federal training. The Motor Transport Corps was to leave the Statehouse late today, following by road the movement of the two batallions of troops earlier in the day. Major Robert J. Axtel was in command. Workmen probably will be moved into the fields tomorrow. Strip mines can be more easily worked by inexperienced labor than shaft mines and for this reason they were taken over. The destination of the troops, which moved in special trains through Indianapolis, was kept secret until it was revealed by the declaration of martial law. Martial Lavr Proclaimed ' *

The Governor’s proclamation follows: “Whereas, It has been made to appear to my satisfaction as Governor of the State of Indiana, that at various points in the State, particularly In the locality where coal mines are situated as hereinafter referred to, there exists considerable feeling against the operation of mines while the strike called by the United Mine Workers of America Is still pending; and. “Whereas, according to reliable Information received, many men threaten by force or violence to break or resist the laws of this State and the laws of the United States for the purpose of preventing the mining and marketing of coal for the use of citizens of this State, <n consequence of which the coal mining Industry in the State of Indiana has become paralyzed and Industrial activities dependent on coal have been interrupted, and inconvenience and distress threaten the public generally for the want of necessary fuel to supply the State institution?, public utilities and the domestic demands of our people; and

“ Whereas, It also has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the ordinary civil authorities will bo unable to prevent the said threatened acts of force and violence, and that In the process of the opening of the mines and the resumption of mining activities in order to provide coal for the citizens of said State as aforesaid, a State of insurrection will arise. "Now, therefore, I. Warren T. McCray, Governor of the State of Indiana, and commander in chief of the military forces thereof, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the constitution and laws of said Stats do hereby proclaim and declare a State of martial law to exist in the following territory, to-wit: The towns of Staunton, Cloverland,'Williamstown and Turner, and also adjacent territory included In Sections 3 to 24, both inclusive, in Posey Township, Clay County, State of Indiana, and I do hereby command all turbulent and disorderly persons to immediately disperse and repair peaceably to their respective homes and hereafter submit themselves to the lawfully constituted authorities, and I do hereby invoke the aid and cooperation of all good citizens of said towns, county and State to uphold the laws and preserve the public peace thereof. "In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Governor and commander-in-chief of the military forces of said State, and caused to be affixed the great seal of said State this 2nd||f\v of August, 1922. T. M’CRAY, ii State of Indiana. of the military . V:pr'-*>VVt BD Jackson, S6Oro tary of State." Sjjhe ‘4s&2jS&K>r addressed the followto the miners of

FORECAST v Generally fair tonight Stnd Thursday. Not much change In temperature.

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Indiana, calling upon them as a body or as individuals to enlist for sendee in the mines under complete protection from the National Guard commanded by Maj. Gen. Robert HTyndall. "For four months the mining industry has been shut down completely. The supply of coal for the State institutions and the utilities of Indiana is practically exhausted. The inconvenience, hardship and suffering of the public is imminent, and the situation demands prompt executive action. Troops' Use Explained "Purely as a matter of protection to life and property, and acting as commander-in-chief of the military forces of the State of Indiana, I am placing a detachment of the Indiana National Guard around the property I have taken over to be operated in the name of the’ State. The mines selected are strip mines, situated at or "near Staunton, Clay County, Indiana. Asks for Volunteers “I am now calling for volunteer* from the ranks of men who have had experience In strip mining, or who are willing to work as unskilled labor under full protection to produce coal for essential emergency use, wages and conditions to be based upon the scale in effect March 31, 1922. All volunteers are requested to report to Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, commandin-j officer in charge of troops In the field, Staunton, Ind. Calls Situation Desperate "In the name of the State I make this call upon the loyalty and pai riotism of laboring men of Indiana in support of an executive action taken after due deliberation to relieve a desperate situation-"-Askin’ and expecting the fullest loyalty and Cooperation in the preservation of aw and order and the promotion of peace 'i£ and quiet." j WHAT DID YOU SEE? j N. T. S. saw a woman driving her automobile down the street while her baby was enjoying its lunch. J. F. saw a faith healer on Delaware St. take a dose of medicine. H. C. saw a woman in a canoe catch a two pound bass, start to string it, drop a string of about five catfish, and when trying to grab the catfish she dropped the bass into the water. O. R. J. saw a man walking down the street eating a iolly-pop. E. L. saw a small boy on lte Carty St., coasting on a sled. ,