Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1922 — Page 1

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GIRL IN PRISON REPENTING WILD LOVEFOR IN Information Leads Her to Follow and Live With Alleged Bank Bandit. POLICE CAPTURE FOUR • Yegg Suspect Shot Down by Officers With Riot Guns Following Auto Chsae, A 17-year-old girl sat In the city prison today repenting the infatuation that led her to follow and live with a man whom the police say is connected with a number of large robberies, including, possibly, several bank robberies. A man, accused of being a robber, is in the city hospital in a serious condition from bullet wounds inflicted jby the police in capturing him. ™ The man is De Witt Parker, alias T>an Alton. The girl is Eldora Marlaire. Bradley, 111. The man with whom the police say she was infatuated and who is being held is Robert Prater, 20, of 1637 De Doss St. A third man. Louis Schulinburg, 22. Chicago, also was held. The three men and the girl were captured by police, who lay In wait for them on a road about ten miles southeast of the city. The four appeared in an automobile and, with the exception of Parker, were capture ’ without trouble. Parker leaped from the car and attempted to make his escape. It was then the shots wer** fired. Physicians say Parker may and e from the wounds. Four hundred dollars In cash was found on Parker, together with two diamonds valued at SSOO and two valuable watches. Prater had $2,000 in a money bet around his waist. Schulingburg only had $6. Two revolvers, one an automatic, were found in the aide pocket of the car. The police say the arrests clean up robberies at Greensburg and the robberv of the Alert bank last May. Girl Tells Story At the city prison the Marlalre girl told how she, on one night in June, after attending a show in Bradley, was walking down the street with her friend, Bertha Mathews, when they were approached by Prater and Dan. Alton or De Witt Parker. After a drink in a confectionery tho men took the girls home. Prater said he was a fireman on a railroad. He came to see her often, she said, nd July 15 suggested they take a trip to Chicago. She agreed, and when they arrived he took her to a rooming house, where he registered as Mr. and Mrs. Tfobeft Brooks. Lured by the fine clothes and the attention he was bestowing on her, she did not want go home, she said. He told me he loved me and we would be married sooner or later, she said. "We made trips to Lafayette, Louisville and Indianapolis. He always paid all the blßs When I asked him where he got the money, he said a r.ch uncle had died and left It to him.”

REFUSESTRICT 111 CUIETT CASE U. S. District Attorney Says, Conditions Do Not Warrant Interference. No Federal action will be taker, at Garrett under existing conditions, Homer Elliott, United States district attorney said today. Capt. William Kleifgen of the Indiana National Guard and Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith called upon the district attorney yesterday and asked him to take Federal faction at Garrett. H "Many persons seem to overlook the fact,” Elliott said today, "that just because an injunction is in force Federal authorities can step in simply because local conditions are unsatisfactory. Unless the terms of the injunction are violated or the movement of mails or interstate commerce interfered with, the Federal Government has no right to do anything.” GREASE CATCHES'FIRE Downtown Apparatus tailed to 11. P. Wasson Store. Fire In the grease duct from the klthcen of H. P. Wasson & Cos. caused a run of downtown fire apparatus at 1:45 p m. today. The blaze was extinguished without difficulty.

THE WEATHER

Showers and thundershowers occurred from the upper central valleys eastward and southeastward to the Atlantic coast, with heavy rainfall in parts of the Ohio valley, as the center of disturbance moved eastward toward the St. Lawrence this morning. Conditions are unsettled on the middle Eastern slope, but throughout the West and South fair weather is general. Temperatures are high from Texas to the Ohio valley, but it is considerably cooler in the north central States and readings are unseasonably low over the northern plateau “ Mobile, New Orleans, Oklahoma City and St. Louis all reported temperatures of 80 degrees at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Helena, Mont., was low, with a minimum temperature of 64 degrees. HOURLY TEMPEATURE 6 a. m 75 11 a. m 77 7 a. m 76 12 (noon) 77 8 a. m 77 1 p. m 7S 9 a. m 78 2 p. m 79 J.O a. m 78

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TOM SIMS SAYS: _ Time seems to wear jL . _ rubber heels, it slips tfflSjjSjrV/fX by so easily. Conscience is a still small voice be--5 &£ cause it doesn't talk enough. SIMS. The winning hand in the game of love holds only one queen. People are like watermelons. You | can’t tell a good one or a bad one ! from the outside. j Health hint: Whistle. When dad plants onions in the front j yard you know who's boss. Hundred-dollar bills are being counterfeited, according to bootleggers in Cleveland. Living costs more, but there Is so I much more of It. Harding and Edison chew tobacco. Show wifey this if she objects. California’s perfect woman says she wasn’t born that way. Just like the children. Never give their parents and credit. • Boston woman threw her soup at the waiter. Etiquette book would have prevented this blunder. FURTHER EFFORT TO SETTLE STRIKE ENDS IN Fill Brotherhoods’ Conference With Rail Executives Achieves Nothing. By Vnitcd Press NEW YORK. Aug. 25. —The conference between the big four brotherhoods and executives of twenty cairiers here today ended in disagreement. The question of seniority rights again proved a stumbling block. Rail executives flatly refused to consider the demands of the brotherhood chiefs, who acted as mediators for the striking shopmen, that the men be returned to work with full seniority rights. WELCOME CRITICISM Zoning Commission Will Make no Change in Plan Immediately. Criticisms and suggestions In regard to the new zoning ordinance will be ; gladly received by the city plan com- j mission, but no changes will be made j until after thorough lnvestgntion by j the zoning committee of the commls-1 sion, together with Robert H. Whitten, consultant, the commission has announced. Numerous requests have been received by the commission for immediate hcanges in the ordinance to favor some Individual.

Masquerader Enjoys Day Teasing Fans at Ball Park —Still Has $75 The Masquerader is still at large. He has gone out of his way to be caught, but not once has he been approached by a person carrying a copy of the Times, who said the proper words. Meanwhile, hundreds of other persons have been taken for The Masquerader, and have been stepped by readers of the Times, eager to obtain the check for $75, which he will present the first person who recognizes him. All that is necessary is to have a copy of the current issue of the Times and say in these exact words; "You are The Masquerader of the Times.” Here is The Masquerader’s own story of his experiences yesterday; By THE MASQUERADER

Two marked characteristics of residents of Indianapolis impressed themselves on me yesterday during my visit to Washington Park and my strolls along the street—they are the kindliest, most courteous folk X have met, and the most unobserving. All through the day I purposely asked questions which could not help but be annoying, and with one lone exception they were answered in the most friendly spirit. That was at Washington Park during the intermission between the first and second games. The whole crowd was looking around the stand trying to spot me, and many of them looked through and around without having the least idea who I was. They seemed to expect to see some very mysterious person Instead of an average American. "Do you think they will find the Masquerader today?” I asked a short, stocky, cynical looking man chewing viciously on a long, black cigar. “Aw that's all bunk,” he answered. “There ain’t no Masquerader. It’s Just a line of bull to sell papers.” Has Grouch On “Why, friend, I might be the Masquerader,” I told him. “Sure, and I might be Ty Cobb," he countered, and I moved on, glad that the $75 for my discovery was not to go to any one so grouchy and unrepresentative of the true Indianapolis spirit. I started the day about 1 o’clock by walking from the office of the Indianapolis Times north on Meridian St. Nobody took any particular notice of me until I reached Market St., although I heard several, persons discussing me. On Market St., near Pennsylvania, a man looked Intently at me for a few seconds and then his gaze wandered hungrily to an attractive display of delicatessen products in a window. “Who is that gentleman?” I asked a young man in blue suit. “That's Jake Steinmetz, the lawyer.” he answered. Just a few seconds later a tall man passed and eyed me. but went on. The same young man told me the man was Frederick Francke. Just as I started across Market St. a rangy, robin egg blue automobile bearing license Ind. 10889& came to a

DPERKTORS FAIL TO REACH RASIG PRICE DECISION McCardle Asks for $3.50 Per Ton, While Mine Owners Hold Out for $4.50. PASS BUCK TO ROADS Declare Carriers Will Be Unable to Move Shipments to Keep Collieries Running. After an hour of deliberation, twenty representative coal operators of Indiana, meeting at the call of John W. McCardle, chairman of the State fuel emergency committee, today failed to reach an agreement on a fixed price for mine run coal at the mines. McCardle was asking a base price of $3.50 per ton be established and operators held out for $4.50 a ton. Operators declared that railroads would be unable to supply cars in sufficient numbers to keep mines in operation on full time. Limited operations with consequent reduced production, they maintained, would cause the price to be higher. Cars Unavailable It was unofficially stated at the meeting that only 50 per cent of the usual coal car supply of the country was now available. Operators voiced the belief that the $4.50 price for mine run coal fair, as compared with prices in Kentucky and other fields, as costs in Indiana, they declared, were greater than in adjoining fields. The operators appointed a committee composed of J. T. Moorman. W. N. Zeller Jr. and Bernard Batty to work out a satisfactory price and make a report to McCardle next Monday morning at 10 o’clock. The operators expressed willingness to cooperate in every way and were amenable to any plan that would reduce the cost of coal without working financial hardship upon the industry. Announcement was made at the meeting that any canneries in need of coal should immediately get in touch with the State fuel emergency committee, which would he able to supply any amount needed immediately. THREE HURT IN CRASH Automobiles Collide at Intersection of , Roads. Three personsvwera injured when automobiles William McLain. 1714 College Ave., and i/ouls Crone. 138 Edgehill road, collided at tho National and Edgehill roads. Mrs. Minnie Carver, 457 N. LaSalle St.; Mrs. May Crone and S. 1.. West of Jacksonville. Ind.. received cuts and bruises. All were occupants of the Crone machine.

stop. In it were two very attractive young women the driver honked the horn at me when I did not get out o* her way in a hurry. Next I dropped into a cafeteria for lunch at about 1:30. As I was leaving a large, smiling man was filling a glass with water. I bumped into him and begged his pardon, but he never seemed to hear me. From a middle aged man in a Palm Beach suit I learned the man was J. Lloyd Wayne of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. One of the waitresses walked the entire length of the cafeteria counter to get me a few crackers I had forgotten, and I really was sorry she did not recognize me. From here I went out to Washington Park, and spent the afternoon wandering about the grand stand. A few particular Incidents stick out in my memory. In the sixth inning of the first game I went downstairs and bought a program. Two soda boys stood within one toot of me and discussed the probability of a man seated in the stand behind first bane being the Masquerader. Shorty Balts Uinps An inning later Shorty Burch lost a good chance to make some easy money when he rubbed shoulders with me. But at this critical time the umpire made a decision at first base that outraged Shorty’s feelings and he forgot me while advising the umpire to get a pick and shovel and take his proper place In life. For almost five minutes I stood at the edge of a group of street car motormen. Nos. 142, 843, 642, 906 and 1063, but they were so busy discussing their runs they paid no heed to me, except to answer a question as to how often the street cars ran, I thought one man had me surely, for he turned around, eyed me closely, and then asked me if I knew who was pitching for Toledo. Behind the third base line an intent fan sat watching every play with the deepest interest. From a man in a gray suit and checkered cap I learned the man was Harry M. Ohr. I walked down and sat down beside him for a few minutes, but he was so intent on the game he was unconscious of my presence. So I gave it up as a bad job and came back to the downtown district.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUG. 25, 1922

Selected to Represent Indianapolis in Beauty Pageant at Atlantic City

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Miss Thelma Blossom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Blossom, 2854 N. Illinois St., has hern chosen by a committee of eight Indianapolis persons sitting as judges, to represent the city at the Beauty Pageant in Atlantic City, Sept. 6 to 8. . Miss Blossom was selected from over 200 entrants in the Miss Indianapolis contest conducted by The Times. She is a graduate of Shortridge High School; she was given a diploma with highest honors from LaSalle, and attended the Ward-Belmont School for Girls. At present Miss Blossom is a senior at Wisconsin University. She is a member of I’i Beta Phi Sorority, and stood highest in scholarship in her sorority last year. Miss Blossom and her chaperon, Mrs. C. Itoltare Eggleston, will leave for Atlantic City Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 5, on “The Keystone Express,” a fast Pennsylvania train that goes east from Indianapolis at 3:05 p. m. (Details of the selection of Miss Indianapolis will he found'on Page 7).

Bet Jesse James Would Not Have Thought of This By United A’eics SUPERIOR, Wis., Aug. 26.—Under the hypnotic eye of a gypsy fortune teller, Mrs. Annie Burk opened the postoffice safe, over .which she presides at Maple, Wis., and handed out S4O. She did not recover until the gypsy woman was far, far away. Sheriff George Ostrom and deputies chased the gypsy band sixty miles and recovered the money. "She hypnotized me,” said Mrs. Burk. “I gave her a coin to tell my fortune. I felt myself going, but I couldn’t help it. As In a trance, I opened the safe. ITALY WARNS AUSTRIA Other Nations Informed of Dangers of Union With Germany. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 25.—Italy has warned Austria that a union with Germany or entry into the little entente would be considered a cause for war. according to press dispatches from Vienna printed here today./ Czecho-Slovakla, Germany, Jugoslavia and Rumania also received similar warnings, it was etated. DOUCHY WINS PRIZE French Flyer Gets 10,000 Francs for Flying in .Motorless Plane. By United ffews CLERMONT F ERRAND, France, Aug. 25. —M. Douchy has been declared winner of the 10,000 francs prize in the motorless airplane contest conducted from the summit of Puydome. Douchy made a flight of six kilometers in four minutes forty-seven seoonds.

HERO WORSHIP "Your name?" asked the turnkey at police headquarters today. “Harry S. New,” replied the prisoner, an 18-year-old negro. “Are you sure about that?” asked the officer. “No, boss, that ain’t my name,” the boy replied. “My name is Robert Alexander. I just call myself Harry S. New.” He was charged with issuing a fraudulent check.

Embarrassment of Riches So many pictures were entered in the "Miss Indianapolis" quest that the Times found it impossible to publish all of them. Some could not oe published because of artistic reasons; some were entered in expensive frames, and other# were costly photographs. Numerous entrants also requested that their photographs be not used unless they were declared the winner. The Times Pageant Editor has made an attempt to publish as many photographs entered aa possible.

TROTTER IS GIVEN DIVORCE DECREE Judge Holds Allegations Against Evangelsit Not Sustained. By United Press GftAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 25. Melvin E. Trotter, evangelist, won a verdict in Superior Court here today in a decision handed down by Judge M. L. Dunham, following a suit by Trotter’s wife for separate maintenance. “Improper conduct” and "cruelty” charges made by Mrs. Trotter against her husband, together with the charge that Trotter was the father of Florence Moody's child, born In July, 3917, were adjudged “not proven” in Judge Dunham’s verdict. Mrs. Trotter’s suit was dismissed and Trotter was granted an absolute decree of divorce. PLANS WARD EFFORTS John F. “Bull Moose” Walker Assigns Candidates. John F. "Bull Moose” Walker, superintendent of street cleaning, who is In charge of Republican registration, said today that two candidates had been assigned to each ward committeeman to assist in the work of registration. A meeting of all registration workers will be held In the precincts tonight. Watch Is Missing Mrs. C. C. Martin reported the theft of a $25 watch from her home at 3021 McPherson Ave.

Society Forms to Exterminate *Old Ironsides’ Anew campaign to exterminate ‘‘old ironsides" has been inaugurated by the formation of the Anna Lee Anti-Corset Society by six women and three men. Articles of association have been filed with the secretary of state. The incorporators are Anna lloeltke Lee, William C. Hoeltke, Catherine S. C. Wagner, James H. fee, Clara Cramer, Maude Harris, Earl Mclntyre. Minnie Edwards and Gladys K. Fousey. A bill to prohibit manufacture and rale of corsets lias been introduced at tho last three or four sessions of the State Legislature. The society is tormed for the purpose of "educating the public on proper, healthful, artistic and scientific dress and to secure passage of necessary restrictive legislation for the abolition of corsets." BULL CAUSES DEATH Fanner Who Was Attacked by Animal Dies at Frankfort. By Times Special FRANKFORT. Ind., Aug. 25.—As the result of injuries he received when attacked by a bull on his farm last Tuesday J. M. Hendricks, 65, died yesterday afternoon. Tent Blown Over RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 25.—1n the heavy rain and wind storm last night a large assembly tent in Glen Miller Park, where 500 or more persons are camping, was blown over. No one was hurt

Saturday Night Only Safe Time to Get Into Water at Zion City By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 25.—There will be no twosome bathing parties in Zion City. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, pastor of the flock, has ruled that men and their wives—or other men's wives—must keep their distance while bathing. Voliva has even ruled what the safe distance is for mixed bathing—500 feet. Other rules fop Zion bathing beaches include: Fathers shall have the custody of the sons and mothers the daughters. J Only the arms of female bathers shall be bare to the elbow. Female legs are not to be without stockings. /

Entered ag Second-elaas Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

EVANS DECLARES DE WILL CONTINUE INVESTIGATION INTO POLICE DEPARTMENT Prosecutor Says It Is His Purpose to Clean Up “Disgraceful Situation” Hits at Bill Armitage. MAINTAINS NO POLITICS IN MATTER Force in Demoralized Condition Waiting for Ax to Fall Prosecutions Will Follow.

“INDICT US,” SAYS ARMITAGE William H. Armitage, boss of the City Hall, In a statement today said: "I talked to my brother yesterday and asked him to resign, and if Evans has anything on my brother or myself, I want him to indict us." I

Investigation of irregularities in the police department will continue, William P. Evans, Marion County prosecutor, declared today in a statement following the resignation of James E. Armitage as a member of the Board of Public Safety. Armitage resigned after Evans requested Mayor Shank to demand his resignation. Evans hit at William H. Armitage, boss o fthe City Hall, in his statement. He referred to the situation in the police department as “disgraceful.” Evans said : “The investigation will, of eourse, continue. “The resignation of James E. Armitage is a step in the right direction, but the hurtful influence of William H. Armitage on the police department has not been and will not he removed so long as the departmeut is organized on its present basis. “It will be interesting to note what necessary and practical changes are made in the uniform side of the department to give it a real spirit of law enforcement and to correct, for instance, the conditions referred to a few days ago by Chief KikhoiT. “There is positively no politics in this matter. My purpose is to clean up a disgraceful situation.”

Leaders Shift Blame The city administration has been shaken to its foundations as a result of the Armitage resignation and the activity of Evans. Leaders are scurrying for cover and each In protesting he is not to blame. Typical of the attitude was the statement of Carlin Shank, county commissioner and brother of the mayor "It was nn absolute surprise to me when I learned that Mr. Evans had demanded the resignation of Armitage," he said. "They are undoubtedly after Bill Armitage's scalp. If Bill’went to church three times a day every bit of gambling in this town would be put up to him." Denies Protection Report "I havent’ the least Idea of what Evans has up his sleeve," James E. Armitage said. He denied reports he had made an effort to protect Sergeant Dean and Captain Row. recently suspended from the police department. "The night of Aug. 16 I went to my home with Ernest Kingston, president of the board of safety, to change my clothes and prepare to go fishing with Kingston. My brother was not there and we waited for him. ‘‘Presently he and Chief of Police Rikhoff came in and Rikhoff told me he had reports that Dean and Row had been ‘laying in’ at a certain house. "I immediately asked Rikhoff if he had taken the officers’ badges away from them and preferred charges and told him if he had not to do so at once.” The police department was in a a moralized condition, every one waiting for the ax to fail. The statement of Evans that there should he changes on the uniform side has caused considerable perturbation among evry one from the head of the department, down. They point to the fact that Evans forced the resignation of Armitage. The statement of Evans that the investigation will continue indicated to policemen that prosecution is impending. They declared the prosecutor must have sufficient evidence to act or he would not be taking a hand in the matter. • Accusations that members of the police department have openly cooperated with law violators have been frequent during the last few days. Statements to this effect were contained in recent orders issued by Chief Herman F. Rikhoff. Armitage resigned in person to the mayor last night. Jesse S. Sisloff ten-

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tatively was appointed to succeed him. Sisloff was a member of the same board during the first Shank administration. In presenting his resignation James Armitage said he was acting to relieve the administration of embarrassment and because of accusations that. William H. Armitage had too much influence with the board and police department. The brothers came to the mayor’s home together. Mayor Shank complimented James Armitage for his services. SPIKES POLLED IN OHIO WRECK Rails Loosened on B. & 0. and Lake Erie & Western Roads, Attorney Declares. By United Press LIMA, Ohio, Aug. 25.—Probe of tho wrecking of a freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio and derailing of a locomotive on the Lake Erie & Western, near here, was started today by G. A. Stauffer, United States marshal. Ira Longsworth, attorney for both roads, charged spikes had been pulled and the rails loosened. A locomotive and eight cars rolled down a twenty-foot embankment on the B. & O. KU-KLUX ENTERS New Element Injected in Troubled Situation Due to Booze. By United Kerns JOHNSTOWN, Pa.. Aug. 25.—Blazing high on a hillside in plain view of half the city, a flaming cross Thursday night indicated that another element has been cast upon Johnstown’s troubled sea of booze. It was the first meeting of the local Ku-Klux Klan. TRAIN HITS DEAF MAN Frank Henderson Instantly Killed at Big Four Crossing. By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. *s. While crossing the Big Four tracks at a street intersection here yesterday afternoon Frank Henderson, 48, who was deaf, was struck by a freight train and instantly killed.

WHAT DID YOU SEE?

A, P. saw a bank president borrow a chew of tobacco from a plasterer working In the bank. I. R. saw a man trying to shine his shoes with a tooth brush. R. L. V. saw a negro tire repairman pull a nail from a tire and toss it out into the street. J. A. B. saw three male heads bump together on a street car when a good looking girl dropped a dime on the floor. .. E. R. S. saw a man in swimming wearing shell-rim glasses.