Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 97

ELEVEN HURT IN BIG FOUR WRECK INBROWNS6URG Fast Train Splits Switch at Siding and Crashes Into Freight. INJURED RUSHED HERE All Cars Hurled From Rails — Smash-up Purely Accidental, Officials Declare.

HERO! Engineer 'William Stitt, railroad men declare bears a charmed life. It was his third wreck and in none has he been Injured. Stitt was not even bruised or scratched. Due to his coolness and presence of mind the mei in the caboose of the freight car were 1 not killed and the passengers on passenger train No. 44, escaped. By HEZE CLARK Eleven persons were hurt, one perhaps fatally, when east-bound Big Four passenger train No. 44 early today ran into a siding at Brownsburg, fifteen miles west of here, and crashed into a freight train. W. J. Love, chief of the Big Pour police, and other offic;als of the railroad. declared the wreck was not due to sabotage. This statement was confirmed by Brownsburg authorities. The lock on the switch had not been tampered with, they said, nor had any ■pikes been pulled, as happened In three recent train wrecks near Indianapolis. The injured were Mrs. Lizzie Moon, Paoll, Ind., back ‘ Injured and bruised about body. J. J. Jobst, 259 Randolph Ave., Pe- j oria, IJI., hurt about head. Harry C. Keithley, passenger fireman, 631 Bell St., Indianapolis, burled in soft dirt, under cab of locomotive, ‘ unconscious when found. Patrick Curtin. 2472 Marlon Ave., I New York City, cut and bruised. I P. W. Gere. 211 W. Hugh St . j Urbana. 111., mall clerk, legs injured William McNutt. 440 E, May St.. \ Martinsville, Ind., mail clerk, sprained ehou}der. F. G. Clark, Shelbyville, Ind.. head hurt. Telia Allman. Normal. LI., neck Injured. A. W. Johnson, 227 N. Light St., Springfield, Ohio, bruised and nervous shock. Guy Holsclaw, 1027 Meridian St., ! Shelbyville, Ind., arm injuries. Fred Leslie. 65 W. Seventh St., St. Paul. Minn., wrist sprained, slight injuries to arms and hands. Mrs. Lizzie Moon, an invalid, was j riding in a wheel chair in the baggage car and was thrown through the door onto the right-of-way and her in- j Juries were serious. She was taken j to Methodist Hospital. * The engine turned over on its left side in a cornfield. All cars of the ! passenger left the rails except the j rear trucks of a sleeper. The plat j form of the caboose was demolished. Engineman Sticks to Cab William Stidd. 3 424 N. Capitol Ave., engineer of the passenger train, put on the emergency brakes almost as eoon as the switch was split. He stuck to his post and was in the cab when the engine turned over. He was uninjured. The first persons to arrive at the scene of the wreck were Ray Ottinger and E. W. Huddleston, night marshals of Brownsburg. Martin Welch, night station agent, also was on the scene immediately after the wreck. They Investigated the switch lock and ; switch spur and found neither had 1 been tampered with, which set aside theory that accident was a result of sabotage. A steam pipe connected with the whistle on the locomotive broke. This caused the whistle to blow continuously until all the steam was exhausted. attracting many to the scene of the wreck. The station agent said as the train approached the switch a green light was up. A moment later he saw the train plunge Into the siding. Luncheon Postponed The Indianapolis Scientech Club will not hold its regular noon luncheon Labor Day. The next luncheon will be Sept. 11 at the Chamber of Commerce.

THE WEATHER

Showers have occurred In the middle and upper Mississippi valley and In North Dakota since Thursday morning In connection with the depression over the upper Missouri valley. Scattered showers also have occurred in the middle Rockies and at points on the Gulf and middle Atlantic coasts. Temperatures have risen in the Mississippi valley States and the Lake region, and coo! weather prevails over the north Pacific slope. Changes elsewhere have not been important. The mercury soared to 82 degrees at 7 a. m. at New Orleans Thursday, the record for the day, while Helena. Mont., boasted a minimum of 54 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 73 11 a. m SS 7 a. m 73 12 (noon) 87 8 a. m 77 1 p. m 89 9 a. m 82 2 p. m........ 90 10 a. m. 84

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TOM SIMS SAYS: fAll loaf and no fight makes Jack Dempsey a dull boy. A wise man never A chews dynamite caps or restaurant hash. A dark past Is much better than a dark fuSIM3 ' ture. There Is a Sanskrit word of 152 syllables. Please do not tell the man who names Pullman cars. Bandit who cracked a coal dealer’s safe knew where the money was. In the parlor isn’t enough. Before proposing go hack and see how she looks In the kitchen. Before you get through paying on your summer clothes It Is time to buy winter clothes. Some towns have all the luck. In Ford City, Pa., ham sandwiches only cost a nickel. PUMPS DRAWING DEADLY GAG FROM GOLD Ml SHAFT Drillers and Blasters Work Against Solid Rock Wall to Rescue 47 Men. BULLETIN By United Press JACKSON. Cal.. Sept. I.—Fire, which was gradually being checked In the main shaft of the Argonaut mine, where forty-seven miners have been Imprisoned since Monday, broke out again today. By United Press JACKSON. CaJ., Sept. I. drillers and blasters today attacked the last fifty feet of solid rock separating rescue squads from the forty-seven men entombed half a mile under ground in the depths of the Argonaut gold mine. A hospital In a subterranean chamber 3,000 feet below the surface was made ready to give first aid to any cf the men found alive. Cots and oxygen apparatus are on hand and surgeons and nurses await the call to duty. Deadly carbon monoxide gas gene rated by the mine fire was being rap- 1 Idly pumped out of the Argonaut shaft today and the rescue crows penetrated deeper and deeper Into the pit.

WILLS MILLION TO GUY FOUNDATION Delavan Smith Leaves Bulk of $2,000,000 Estate to Hoosier Institutions. Under the wifi of the late Delavan Smith, who died at h!s Home in Lake Forest. 111., last week, the Indianapolis Foundation has been left $1,000,000. Estimated value of his estate has been placed at $2,000,000. The largest of Mr. Smith’s bequests was to the Indiana Historical Association, which was given $150,000, together with his personal library, valued at $250,000. The Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis was given SIOO,OOO, In memory of his sister, Almira Smith Williams. Mr. Smith suggested that a children’s ward be added to the building. The Lake Forest Hospital Association was given SIOO,OOO in memory of his mother. Personal bequests amounting to approximately SIOO,OOO were made to employes of the Indianapolis News., To Wabash College $25,000 was given and Earlham College is to receive $12,000. St. Vincent’s Hospital will receive SIO,OOO. To the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. as well as the Flower Mission, bequests of SIO,OOO were made. The Salvation Army will receive SI,OOO. In addition to the special bequests to the organizations named in this paragraph, a $5,000 endowment fund for each Is to ba provided. A bequest of $20,000, together with his personal collections of prints and works of art or all kinds was made to the John Herron Art Institute.

Miss Indianapolis Will Be Guest at State Theater Saturday Miss Indianapolis and Mrs. C. Roltare Eggleston, chaperon, have accepted an invitation of Herb Jennings, manager of The Btate Theater, to visit the theater Saturday night to witness Rodolph Valentino in “Blood and Sand.” Miss Indianapolis and her chaperon will motor to Ldew’s State in a Yellow Cab, arriving there shortly after 8 o’clock. Two boxes have been placed at the disposal of Miss Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Blossom, parents of Miss Indianapolis, and their guests, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Edwards of Chicago, Blaine McGrath, managing editor of The Times, and others, will be members of the party. The Yellow Cab will be the sign of Miss Indianapolis’ arrival and departure from the theater Saturday night. Miss Indianapolis takes this opportunity in thanking the police and traffic officers for their splendid cooperation extendeu her taxi on her many official trips. ' i The police have acted wonderfully to ma,” she stated. \

Brides Falter Near the Altar; Fear the Halter By United etc a CHICAGO, Sept. 1. —Since Mary Landon Baker left. AlUster McCormick ’’waiting at the church” because she could not face a fashionable church wedding, other Gold Coast debutantes here have followed her lead. Mary Isabel Nat Leod, daughter of a wealthy broker, begged her fiancee, Willard Otis Colvin, to elope with her. He did. Father Horton of the Church of | the Atonement was all ready to marry | Elizabeth Van Engera and Willis W. , Tarr. They never appeared. harMlne OWNERS HEARING 'PUBLIC MANDATE' Operators Justify Paying Old Scale of Wages Until April 1, 1924. I By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Sept. I.—Preparations for resumption of anthracite mining were under way In Pennsylvania today as the last steps in settlei ment of the strike were taken. I Samuel D. Warriner, spokesman for the operators, has asked for a “public mandate" to justify paying the miners their old wage until April 1. 1924. It Is a foregone conclusion the operators will consider this “public mandate’’ forthcoming. REFUSES REDDEST OF JUDGECOLUNS Shank Turns Down Plea for Sergeant Drinkut’s Services Conference Held. Mayor Shank and Chief of Police Rikhoff today refused the request of James A. Collins, judge of Criminal Court, that Sergt. Fred Drinkut, who was removed from his position In Criminal Court, by the mayor's order of Monday, be allowed to come back to the court. The grounds for the refusal. Mayor Shank said, were that Drinkut was a valuable man and would be used on acUve duty. Patrolman Grover Hinton, whose arm was injured permanently when he fell from a horse some time ago. will take Drlnkut’s place. Hinton is a young, clean cut officer who has been detailed Inside at police headquarters at the Information desk. Claude Worley, at whom the mayor evidently intended to hit when he ordered the removal of city policemen from county offices today, was still at the office of William P. Evans, prosecuting attorney of Marlon County, for which office ne acts as investigator. ARGENTINE SHIP SENT TU ROTTDM Five Other Vessels Damaged as American Liner Leaves Harbor. By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Sept. I.—An Ar gentlne gunboat was sunk and five other vessels badly damaged by the Munson liner American Legion, which became unmanageable in the harbor here when about to leave for New York yesterday. Several persons were reported drowned and at least four injured, including officers of the gunboat Azopardo. SUGGESTS LESS TAX City Controller Advises Two-Cent Deduction. A reduction of two cents in the city tax levy was recommended by Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, in a letter to Lloyd Claycombe, chairman of the city council finance committee.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 1, 1922

TRANCE DECLINES TO JOIN II ALLIED FINANCIAL POLICY Cabinet Refuses to Concur in Reparations Stand of Conferees. ANSWER TO GREAT BRITAIN Lesser Powers to Be Invited to Further Discussion of Balfour Note. By United Press PARIS, Sept. I—The French cabinet today refused to concur in the decision of the allied reparation commission and reserved the right o take Independent action against Germany. After notifying Germany her request for a moratorium had been rejected, with the provision that this year’s payments may be made in short-term treasury notes, France announced she would stand alone and demand another European financial conference. It was proposed, interallied debts and reparations be discussed further and reply of the lesser powers to the note of I/ord Balfour drawn up. The Balfour note requested the allies to pay Great Britain to the extent of England's war obligations to the United States. It was semi officially stated • hat invitations to the proposed allied financial conference will include the United States.

CONGRESS PLANS FDR BONUS BILL Impression Prevails Harding Will Veto Measure With Senate in Doubt. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. I.—The House today sent the bonus bill t to conference with the Senate without debate. Bja United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—Plans I were formulated in Congress today to : speed the Fnrdney McCumber soldiers ; bonus bill to the White House early | next week. j Anxious to have the bill finally dls - posed of, after being “kicked around” | for more than two years by the ! House and Senate, the conference ! committee on the measure met in prei lirninary session to adjudicate a com i promise of the wide difference beI tween the two Houses of Congress. The impression prevailed that President Harding would veto the bill and that the Senate would be unable to over ride his veto. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of forty-seven to twenty-two, but pairings for and against the bill and the fact some members who favored it will not vote against the President, are said to reveal that the necessary two-thirds ma jority to override a veto cannot be obtained. WILL CHANT SUNDAY ! Murat Singers to Clive Program at Masonic Home. Sunday will be Shrine Chanters’ day at the Indiana Masonic Home at. Franklin, Ind. The Murat Temple singers will give a program in the afternoon under the direction of Arnold Spencer, for the pleasure of the old folks and children. ‘STAY IN SCHOOL’ “Silent Orator” Carries Message to Children. A message on school attendance will he carried by the silent orator on the Merchants Heat and Light Company building beginning tonight. The statement reads as follows “Stay in school: be more welcome in business; ndvance faster; earn more; enjoy more good things of life by going to high school and college. You owe It to yourself, your family and your country. Stay in school. Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce.” MESSAGE WASHES IN Girl Writes She Was Kidnaped and Taken to Sea. By United Netcs ATLANTIC CITY, Sept I.—Authorities are investigating a message washed ashore in a bottle, purporting to be from a girl who said she was kidnaped by five men and carried away on a boat. “If any one should find my plea, for God's sake come to my rescue,” said the massage. It was signed “Mabel Gilmore, Ocean City.”

CONCERNED By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—Reports of Increased violence and sabotage on the railroads, outgrowth of the strike of shopmen, were placed before President Harding and his Cabinet today. Orders are understood to have gone out to United States district attorneys to redouble their efforts for evidence of conspiracies to restrain interstate commerce.

Reasons Daugherty Assigns for Enjoining Strike Leaders By United Press CHICAGO, Sepu 1. —Asking for an injunction to tie the hands of striking railroad shopmen, Attorney-General Daugherty cited the following tatements in support of his petition; 1. —That $75,000,000 worth of California food was detroyed in California alone due to the strike. 2.—Twenty-five thousand coal cars and 100 mail cars were abandoned. 3. —Four thousand cars were damaged by vandals. 4.—Workers tarred and feathered and threatened and bombs thrown at trains and bridges dynamited. 5. —Twenty-five murders committed. 6.—Sixty per cent of the engines of the country are out of commission.

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“Belongs in Russia Comment of Union Leader on Daugherty

Up f nitcd Prrst WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—"Wo will still have constitutional rights and we will continue to stand on them despite the foolhardy injunction obtained by Attorney General Daugherty In Chicago,” William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists declared here today. “Mr. Daugherty apparently belongs in Russia.

Restraining Order Directed to Strict Str-ike Regulation

By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 1. —The petition upon which Federal Judge Wilkerson today issued a temporary restraining order on personal plea of United Stater Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, is made to apply to every official and agent of the strikers and to each striker. It is requested that they be permanently enjoined from: 1. Interfering with or hindering in any manner or obstructing the railroads In the operation of their systems of transportation. 2. Interfering with any one from freely entering Into or continuing in the employment of the railroad companies. 3. Conspiring to annoy employes of railroads: from making threats to workers: Jeering or taunting employes. 4. Loitering on railroad property or trespassing upon the premises of the railroads. 5. Inducing or attempting to induce any person to leave the employ of the railroads. 6. Engaging in picketing. 7. Congregating for the purpose of encouraging or furthering the strike. 8. From encouraging* f.trikers or directing by letters, phones, Interviews in newspapers, or in any manner whatsoever conducting the walk out. On this point the petition asks that

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It came from Winthrop Ames, the theatrical producer. He gave the bride a play, stipulating that her husband should have the sole rights of production. They became so excited over the gift they decided not to take a wedding trip, but to start production at once. •By summer the play was coming along beautifully and hod earned so much money that they could take an extended honeymoon trip to Europe, and then have enough left to buy two new plays to be produced on their return.

"However, wo nro not apprehensive. Wo will merely keep the inen away from the railroads and they will collapse.” "The whole power of the Government is being used in behalf of the railroads and against the workers. “This has become a ‘Government by Injunction.’ ” Johnston is head of an organization that is participating in the strike.

the union officials be restrained from issuing any Instructions, requests, publlo statements or suggestions in any way to any defendant or to any official or members of any of '.ho as sociated labor organizations with reference to their conduct subsequent to their abandonment of the employment of the railway companies. 9. Use of funds of the union In the conduct of the strike ARRESTS ARE PROMISED Government Agents Say They Have Evidence of Conspiracy. By United Preen CHICAGO, Sept. 1. —A Nation-wide round-up of radicals was ordered today following an outbreak of dynamitings and wrecks on railroads throughout the country. Federal authorities also announced they had information that "Reds” planned to kidnap presidents of the New York Central, Pennsylvania and Rock Island roads. The latest attack was a fusillade of shots on guards of a New York Central bridge over the Cuyahoga river, near Cleveland where an alleged attempt to dynamite a railroad bridge was frustrated. Federal authorities at Atlanta, Ga., uncovered a plot to bomb the railroad shops and sleeping quarters there.

Entered as Second-class Matter at Poatofflee, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

DRASTIC ORDER ISSUED AGAINST EVERY ACTION TO EMBARRASS SERVICE Sweeping- Mandate Is Issued by Judge Wilkerson Based on Personal Appeal by Daugherty. TRANSPORTATION NEARS BREAKDOWN Attorney General Cites Recent Violence, Declaring He Has Received 40,000 Appeals for Relief. BULLETIN By United Press PADUCAH, Ky., Sept. I.—The home of J. F. Walker, chief mechanic of the Illinois Central shops, was blown up with dynamite early today. Walker's little daughter was injured by flying glass. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. I.—A sweeping temporary injunction pre venting union heads from conducting the strike of railroad shopmen. was granted today by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson. Union officials are restrained from “issuing any instructions, public statements or suggestions” to its members regarding the conduct of the strike. Judge Wilkerson set Sept. 11 as the date for a hearing on making the injunction permanent. Funds of the union are tied up and no money can be used to further the strike. The court order prevents all picketing, gatherings of strikers, and threats of violence, or any act which would hinder the operation of trains carrying interstate mail or freight. The petition for a restraining order was presented to the court by Harry M. Daugherty, United States attorney general, who made a lengthy personal argument in support of the action. Railroads Near Breakdown. Daugherty, whose appearance in court was a surprise, declared the transportation systems of the country were near a complete breakdown and that a national disaster was near unless immediate steps were taken to aid railroads in breaking the strike. Daugherty cited recent numerous acts of violence which he attributed to the strike, declaring that more than 40,000 appeals had reached his office for aid in controlling the strike situation.

Petition Is Drastic The petition asking the injunction was characterized by Federal authorities as the most drastic ever presented to a Federal court in a labor disturbance. It was a lengthy document, covering more than fifty closely typewritten pages. In the first portion it recited the events leading up to the strike, claiming that it was called in violation of orders of the United States railroad labor board. The petition went into the coal situation, declaring that the greatest efficiency in railroad operation was needed at this time in order to prevent dire suffering from the fuel shortage this winter. The season’s crop, rpady to move, will he unhandled unless the railroads are able to get transportation back on a normal basis. “The entire Nation will become engulfed in a national disaster and the people will be unprovided with food and fuel,” the document continues. “The railway transportation system Is broken down or impaired so as to be useless or inadequate for any and all emergencies. Producers of crops are facing huge losses. Vast herds of livestock must be moved to markets in time for slaughter.” Breakdown May Be Prevented In requesting the injunction, the petition declares that while the strike impairs service to some extent, a complete breakdown might be prevented if the railroads were able to employ new men, without hinderance. “Only for the unlawful acts of the men who quit work in preventing hiring of new men, the railroads could procure the required number of employes to insure the carrying of interstate commerce and mail,” the document states. “Approximately 1.000 mail trains have been discontinued as a result of the strike. Freight Pars are Idle "Thousands of loaded freight cars and have been for weeks, standing on side tracks, of which the greater number have been purposely and maliciously disabled to prevent them from being used in the transportation of coal and other commerce. Locomotives Stand Idle “Thousands of disabled locomotives stand idle In the yards. “Operation of numerous factories have been suspended for want of fuel and thousands of employes are deprived of an opportunity to earn support for themselves and their families. "In addition to this, the vicious element of the striking employes and those who despise all governmental authority, have seized upon the situation to create, so far as they are able to do so, a reign of terror by dynamiting railroad bridges, removing spikes from rails, placing obstructions on railroad tracks, exploding bombs on tracks and in railroad yards and hurling bombs at moving trains, for the purpose of not only impeding and hindering the transportation of freight and passengers but of deterring by fear the trainmen from.oper-

Forecast Probably thunder showers tonight or Saturday. Not much change in temperature.

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ating trains and passengers from riding. “Unless enjoined by this court, the defendants will continue their unlawful conduct and the conductions of lawlessness will become more appalling.” "There are many who believe that, on account of the arrogance of certain officials of labor unions, that the unions themselves should be destroyed. “I do not think they should but I think they should be corrected and restrained. Tune to Call Halt “If the acts of violence and murder are inspired by the unions then it is time that the Government should call a halt. “No organization of association, no matter how powerful it may be, can hold its constitution or its laws supreme over the Government and laws of the United States. “When the unions claim the right to dictate to the Government and to dominate the American people and deprive the American people of the necesssities of life, then the Government will destroy the unions, for the Government of the United States is supreme and must endure.’ "It is with great regret that I am compelled to institute this proceeding on behalf of the Government,” Daugherty said. No Other Course Left "Considering existing conditions and the welfare of the people of America, there is no other course and under the circumstances I have not the slightest fear or doubt of the Government’s position.” Daugherty then outlined the failure of the efforts made by President Hard- * ing to bring about a settlement of the strike, and quoted from the President’s speech of Aug. 18. Move Is Necessary “Let me today start the truth on its way in advance —that in my judgment this move is necessary for the protection and the preservation of the unions themselves.” "The Government of the United States is not opposed to labor unions If they perform such functions as can be performed in lawful America. The injunction was asked In Chicago, as the headquarters of the strikers are here and the railroad labor board. In whose interests Daugherty is acting, is located in this city.

WHAT DID YOU SEE?

I. A. R. saw a motorist on the Shelbyvilie road Inflating an Inner tube with his mouth. H. E. W. saw a house-to-house canvasser trying to sell snow shovels. R. T. A. saw a negro scaling fish with a curry comb. G. D. L. saw a woman enter the postoffice, buy a stamp, stick It to a letter and walk out to a mail box on a nearby corner to post the letter.