Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1922 — Page 1

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LOCAL STRIKERS STAND READY TO TAM TOOLS Hart Reads Telegram From Jewell Presaging End to Na-tion-Wide Rail Strike. NOW AWAIT FINAL WORD Big Four Foresees No Difficulty in Indianapolis Men Returning. "With receipt of a telegram from B. M. Jewell at Chicago, confirming press reports of an agreement presaging the end of the rail strike which started June 30 L. V. Hart, local strike leader and general chairman of machinists jkm the Big Four system today awaited from Jewell which would start procedure for return of men to work, j Hart read Jewell’s message to a mass meeting of strikers. He said j they received it in silence. “The men have confidence in their j leaders and believe they are getting | the best settlement they can,” said j Hart. In Chicago it was reported the Big ' Four and Monon are involved in'the settlement. Big Four officials have received no confirmation of this. Meetings of union and road officials I of other railroads than the Big Four j touching Indianapolis at which ar- j rangements for men to go back to work will be made, probably will be i held in other cities, strikers believed. The Big Four meeting will be held j here. Reports of the Chicago settlement j say the roads have agreed to take back all strikers, except those guilty of violence, within thirty days. Although the road claims to have a shop force working in Indianapolis equal to 104 per cent of the prestrike personnel, Henry R. Doty, chief clerk to the superintendent of i motive pi wer of the Big Four, said ! lie thought there would be no local j difficulty about taking back old em- ; ploye. Perhaps three times enough men ' to fully man the local shops have !>een hired since the strike began, the force constantly changing Doty said. | READY TO RESUME WORK More Than Sixty Railroads Included in Strike Settlement. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 14. —Shopmen on more than sixty railroads prepared to ; return to work today. Railroads throughout the country i signed separate agreements voted by the striking employes. Similar agreements will be offered to every railroad and it is expected that within a week a majority of the roads will accept the peace proposal. Practically all of the strikers will be at work within a few days, as the “railroads who accept the agreement will employ greatly enlarged forces to get their equipment back in shape. The men returned to work on the wage scale fixed by the United States railroad labor -board. The question of seniority was not mentioned in the agreement. A committee of twelve—six from the roads and six from the employes —will work out all details and disputes arising from the agreement. hslstealllds MIMMEDS Sergeant Captures Quartet After Thrilling Dash in Downtown District. After a short but thrilling pursuit, Sergt. “Battling” Halstead kite last night arrested four alleged bootleggers, captured the sedan in which they were riding and brought fifty gallons of white inule to police headquarters. When the motorcycle officer saw a dust-covered sedan with an Ohio license at Georgia and Meridian Sts., he followed it. The driver also increased his speed and at Meridian and Maryland Sts. turned west. Near Illinois and Maryland Sts., Sergt. Halstead overtook the car. The men arrested are Joseph Goldhagen, 38, of 546 Stewart Plaza; Dan Uladd, 23, 469 W. Washington St.; Sam Poteova, 24, of 521 W. Pearl St., and Harry Howard, 31, of 1308 W. Washington St. They were charged with operating a blind tiger. Three of them were released on SI,OOO bonds signed by professional bondsmen. Goldhagen, however, was held under a $2,500 bond, as the police said he was wanted by the Federal authorities. THE WEATHER Since Wednesday morning showers have occurred on the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts, the Lakes region and upper Mississippi Valley, and in the far Northwest, while elsewhere it has en generally fair. * The temperature changes have not been decided over large areas in any part of the country. New Orleans and Tampa reported highest temperatures yesterday at 76 Jegrees. The minimum temperature of 44 degrees was recorded at Rapid City. s. D. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 64 11 a. m... . 78 7 a. m 65 12 (oon) S2 8 a. m 68 1 p. m 82 9 a. m 74 2 p. m 84 10 a. m 76

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TOM SIMS SAYS: J ' Be g° o<l - Sing Sing has only one month’s coal supply. ’■Mr ■ v What makes a bowxir legged one happier than a long skirt? So many love Jetters SIMS g e t into court. The female of the species is more deadly than the mail. Many a man goes to church on Sunday to get a one-day's supply of religion. The nice thing about cheap European money is a man in debt doesn’t owe so much. | Our birth rate is declining. Fos- ! terity and prosperity both are arrivj ing rather slowly. A jury has freed another self-made widow. He who succeeds by hook or crook too often uses the latter. Most of us want things different even after they are. A homely woman looks much better than a pretty man. Every time we see some ice we think about the coal shortage. Wouldn’t it be great if you could send dishes to the laundry and the house to the cleaner? We know what the coal strike cost. About $lO per ton. !BYOUTHS HELD AS CO? SCARCITY PREVENTS PROBE Cases of Sixty-Five Other Boys Delayed in Juvenile Court, Lahr Says. Sixteen boys in the Marion County Juvenile Detention Home, 1102 N. Capitol Ave., must remain there until city officials provide police officers to investigate their records. Judge Frank J. Lahr of the Juvenile Court, announced today. Sixty-five boys awaiting trial In the court cannot be tried for the same reason, the court said in explaining the fact that the Juvenile courtroom is closed each Thursday and Saturday. Cops Scarce. Shank Says Four police officers attached to the court from the city force were recently removed. Mayor Shank stated it was due to the scarcity of policemen. Others thought it was retalitation against county officials for removal of James J. Armitage from the board of safety. Ernest T. Kingston, president of the board of safety, last Friday promised Judge Lahr the city officers would be returned, but they had not reported today. The chief clerk of the board of safety said no action has been taken in board meetings to return the officers. Law Not Compelling “There is nothing in the law of 1903 establishing the Juvenile Court compelling the city to furnish men to investigate boys' ’ records for trial,” Judge Lahr said. Practically all the cases handled by the court, however, are of boys living within the city limits, and the court is thus really a city court. The county provides four women to handle girls cases for the city.” Hangs by One Arm, Drops and Catches Fish What would one do if he were hang- ! ing by one hand to a rod beneath a bridge, and it was twenty feet to the water and he didn’t know whether the water was thirty feet deep or had rocks just beneath the top layer? John J. Griffith, county engineer, says that after hanging on a while any one will let go and take a chance on rocks. That’s what he did while inspecting a bridge for the county. But during the undesired bath John’s toupee floated away and a fish got in his pocket. He said so himself. step-fathlr is held Youngest Mother’s Delinquency Attributed to Ohio Minister. By United Press SIDNEY, Ohio. Sept. 14.—The Rev. L. W. Irwin, step-father of the 10-year-old Hardin (Ohio) girl who puzzled scientists a month and a half ago by giving birth to a seven-pound boy, today was under arrest on a charge of contributing to the girls’ delinquency. WILL CONTINuTfIGHT De Valera Issues Statement Indicating Continued Beiligereney. By United Press DUBLIN, Sept. 14.—Bitterly attacking Free State officials. Eamonn De Valera, in his first formal statement since he went into hiding, announced today he would continue to fight for an Irish republic.

BOMB By United News CHICAGO. Sept. 14.—A bomb shell was thrown into the ranks of the “die hard” roads—those refusing to negotiate a settlement of the shopmen's strike—today when strike ballots were mailed to more than 35,000 clerks on the Pennsylvania. Clerks’ officials declared that the Pennsylvania seemed determined “to smash all unions and that it was impossible to get the road to agree to a conference on disputes.”

PDLICEAGREETO PDDTECT PUPILS AT IE SCHOOLS Decision Reached in Parley Between Chief and Committee of School Men. PROBLEM WORRIES RIKHOFF Most Necessary Points Will Be Guarded Under Arrangement —City Lacks Enough Cops. Protection from traffic dangers for pupils at sixteen schools picked out by a committee of the school board as the places where protection is most necessary was promised today by Chief of Police Herman F. Rikhoff. The committee, headed by Bert S. Gadd, a member of the board, picked out the following schools after n conference with the police chief: Nos. 2, S, 12, 15, 20, 26, 32, 35, 41, 45, 50, 51, 54, 58, 60 ar.d 76. At the close of a meeting between Chief of Police Riekhoff and the committee the chief said; “I have laid awake nights and studied of this thing. I will he glad if some person who is good at mathematics will show me how it is possible to make o.ne man equal five. We have not enough’men. I have appealed to the board of safety for fifty more men, but we really need 100 more men to police the city as it should he.” Protects Some Schools The chief, however, pointed out that he had agreed with the members of the committee to submit a list of schools that he was able to protect, and that they in turn had agreed to make what changes were necessary and that then he would try to give police protection to the schools named by the committee. “When the committee cailed on me today,” said the chief, “and asked me for more men to protect the children, I showed them the card of Mrs. Henrietta Ellinwood of the Mothers’ Society, who had just left my office, and I informed them that she had iu.-t requested that five policemen he assigned to the juvenile court work. “Then I point out that the shortage of men made it necessary for patrolmen to cover two districts instead of one. We have fifteen patrolmen doing this. We have five mounted officers, each covering three districts instead of one. “I suggested to the eommitte that they have the janitors wear police uniforms and assist in guarding thej children. They did not look favorably j on this suggestion. “I pointed out that today a church had requested twelve policemen for I an entertainment that they would j give. Each parade requires twenty officers. Lodges request the services j of policemen, as do other organizations holding entertainments. Baseball requires twelve each day the team is on its home grounds. “There are seventy-six city schools. We protect sixty. Os this number fifty-one are city schools and nine are church schools.” Suggests Women Police “How about using the women police to protect school children?” the chief was asked. “They have uniforms and badges.” “Seven of the women police are walking districts,” the chief explained. “Three are prison matrons, six are detectives, two are at the terminal and union stations, two are at the city market, two at city parks, one is a stenographer to keep police records at headquarters, one is at the reception desk in the front hall of police headquarters to direct persons to various parts of the building. There are six in juvenile court. I don’t think they are available for work at the schools. “However,” added the chief, “the compromise between members of the committee and myself after they had learned the true conditions will solve the problem and the school children will be protected.” GIRL RUN DOWN Anna Kollinger Badly Hurt in Accident on Downtown Corner. Miss Anna Kollinger, 18, of 1051 S. Capitol Ave., was seriously injured today when she was struck by the automobile of Clark M. Jhoby, 60, a farmer residing near Acton, Ind. She was removed to the city hospital. The accident occurred at the corner of Washington and Pennsylvania" Sts. Witnesses said the automobile was going at eight or ten miles an hour. ELICITS NO SYMPATHY Plea of Advanced Age Fails Negro, 86, on Tiger Charge. The plea of old age by Attorney Henry Spaan, appearing in City Court in behalf of Mike McFerren, negro, 86, of 2342 Ralston St., charged with operating a blind tiger, failed to gain its point and he was fined SIOO and costs. McFerren, on the witness stand, testified that he was a slave in the South, served in the war and came to Indiana in 1882. He added he was born in 1836. ROBBED IN ALLEY Man in Drunken Condition Unable to Tell Particulars. Thomas Burns was robbed in an alley in the rear of 522 E. Georgia St., early today. Burns was under the influence of liquor and was unable to give his address. Joseph Bell, a taxi driver, saw the robbery and notified the police. The police found the empty purse in the alley. Burns was detained by the police.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1922

HALF BILLION By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Railroad officials estimated that the strike cost the public more than a halfbillion dollars. “I am glad it is settled.” Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio, who led the railroads toward the settlement, declared today. “We expect a great rush of business. Industry will be helped and a period of prosperity is just around the corner.”

MOSLEM HORDES WITH BOLSHEVIKS THREATENWORLD Another Great War Awaits Spark Europe Learns With Dismay. , BULLETIN By United Press RAMBOUILLBT, France, Sept. 14. —The French cabinet council met here at President Millerand's summer homo and decided unanimously upon a policy to “re-estab-lish durable peace in the Near East.” By United Press LONDON. Sept. 14.—Another great war, with Moslem hordes, backed by millions of Bolsheviks, in arms against Europe seemed but to await its Sarajevo today. Further advance of the victorious forces of Mustapha Kemal toward Constantinople, goal of the Turkish Nationalists, may be the signal for declaration of war by Great Britain. Russia has entered the conflict with open support of the Turks. Dardanelles the Touchstone The Dardanelles, gateway of the Near East, over which nations have fought for centuries, promise to be the touchstone of a fresh world conflagration, if the Turks pursue their ambition without regard for allied ultimatums. In two brief weeks, the situation in the Near East has changed from a petty war of national aspirations in Asia Minor to the actual verge of a great conflict involving warweary nations of Europe in a clash with the ambitious millions of the Moslem world. Great Britain Stunned The threat of war, admitted here today to be very real, stole upon Europe unexpectedly. Great Britain was almost stunned today to find i ultimatums flying, troops being rushed: to block the path of Turks headed for the Straits and councils of war under way. It is reported that the Turks have halted their advance upon Constant!- j no pie. British guns are known to 1 bar the way, enforcing the treaty of; Sevres that forced the Turk out of Europe. But intervention of Soviet Russia, which demands the freedom of the Dardanelles, has added tremendous weight to Mustampa Rental's threat to retake the I’orte. LABOR WILL SEEK POLITICAL POWER Union With Farmers Proposed for Purpose of Electing La Follette President. By United Press ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 14. Affiliation of tho American Federation of Labor with the farmer vote of tho country to elect Robert M. La Follette, President in 1924, was considered here by the federation's executive committee. The federation convention is expected to adopt resolutions favoring legislation to curb the injunction power of tho Government, repeal of tho Sherman anti trust act, revision of the child labor law and a review of Supreme Court decisions by Congress. Husband s Love Is Cooled When Wife Hurls Ice His wflfe threw ice at him, Harry Falukner, 30, of 320 E. Vermont St., said. Asa result of cooled affections Harry has applied in the Marion County Superior Court, Room 3, for divorce. He also charged his wife, Eva Dell, was nine years older than she represented when married, and that she was married twice before. AFFIDAVITS ARE READ Injunction Hearing Continues With Shop Strike Settled. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Despite partial settlement of the railstrike the fight over the Daugherty injunction continued in Federal Court here today. Scores of affidavits from all parts of the country were read into the record as evidence that terrorism during the strike was the result of a giant conspiracy. It is believed the Government will finish its case this week.

OH, MR. VOLSTEAD! By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 14.—"1 just lost ten million dollars,” a man told Patrolman Thomas Doolan. He will be out of the alcoholic ward at Bellevue in a few days.

Wife Shares Bill Hart's Fortune But Will Press Suit for Divorce

WINIFRED WESTOVER (MRS. WILLIAM S. HART)

By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 14. Bill Hart, Jr., aged something like two weeks, has been endowed with a regular movie star's income despite liis tender years. It was permitted to become public today that Bill, Sr., by terms of an agreement for separation from his wife, formerly Winifred Westover, had set aside a trust fund of SU>O,OOO for tho benefit of Bill Jr. To young Bill will go the incomes from the fund and it will be his when he becomes of age.

BROTHERHOODS 3ENEN CUTfffiTS WITH OTHERS Continue Wage Scales for Train Service and Yardmen's Organizations. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Agreement between two of the powerful Big Four Railroad Brotherhoods and thirteen i carriers for renewal of present wage contracts will be reached this after- \ noon, according to W. G. Lee, presi- j dent of the Brotherhood of Railway ; Trainmen. The agreement would continue the present wages of conductors, brakemen, baggagemen, flagmen, yard foremen, helpers, switch tenders, and also continue all rules governing working conditions. DIES OF INJURIES Mrs. Nannie Brunton, 72, Run Down by Street Car. Mrs. Nannie Brunton, 72, of 1069 W. McCarty St., died at the city hospital today as tho result of injuries received yesterday when she was struck by a street car at Oliver and Birch Aves. Mrs. Brunton was walking across the street with her three-year-old grandson. An eastbound West Indianapolis car struck her. PROWLER SPRINTS Merchant Policeman Fires at Negro Trying to Enter Apartment. “He is tall, he is dark, and he can run like the wind," said Merchant Policeman John Orme of Southport, describing a prowler seen attempting to enter the Marne Apartments, on N. Illinois St. Orme tired two shots at tho negro prowler at 1:30 a. m. today. GAIN IS SATISFACTORY Mrs. Ilarding Expected to Have Long Period of Convalescence. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Mrs. Harding will be a long time in convalescing from tho critical illness which nearly cost her life, but so far as present indications go, her physicians believe her convalescence will be uninterrupted from now on. So satisfactory is the President’s wife gaining that it was decided no more official bulletins will be issued for the present. FIX RATE SOON Tax Commissioners Relieve Boost* in Levy May Reach 30 Cents. The State tax rate for Indiana will be fixed by the State board of tax commissioners on Sept. 25, it became known today. At that time all county valuation assessment sheets will be in the hands of the board members and State officials will have compiled their yearly budgets. The earlier prediction that the State rate would be increased from 24 cents on the SIOO taxables is borne out in reports indicating shrinkage of valuation. The rate, officials predict will be either 28 or 30 cents.

! In addition a trust fund of $103,000 ; has been created for the mother, plus a regular income of $1,200 per month. Fill, Sr,, yielded either to a smoldering spark of melodrama in his breast, or to some other impulse last night and called upon nis son at the home of Mis. Hart’s mother. “Reconciliation Is impossible,” was Hart’s declaration after the rather cool meeting with his wife and mother-in-law, “But tho boy—say he's a real man. Ho's as strong as I am.”

J. Xencr Gains a Half Lap in Gasoline Tilt John Xener, detective assigned to j tho city controller’s office, said today; he “got even'' with Theodore J. Bernd, president of tho city council, for remarks about use of city gasoline by Xener. “Bernd is supposed to sign ordinances passed by tho council and turn them over to the city clerk who sends them to the mayor to sign,” said j Xener. “Bernd had not signed several j bills passed more than a week ago and j the mayor wanted them. So they sent me out to find Bernd and get his name on the ordinances. “I had to burn a half gallon of the city's gasoline hunting him up and I sure told him so.” SHOW INCREASE CF DIPHTHERIA Health Department Issues Report Showing Thirteen New Cases. Diphtheria continued to Increase among Indianapolis children today. Four new cases wore reported to the city health department, making thirteen since school opened Monday. The health department was on the defense with only the school nurse force, awaiting reorganization of the school physician staff by tho board of public health.

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A man drive his flivver nearly a square along the sidwalk on the east side of the city in order to avoid stopping a ball game in the middle of the street. —A. M. C. The joys of a bridal party ceased when the bridegroom was forced to stop his automobile and repair a punctured tire.—C. L. R. A girl started to carry a flag away With her after she was through putting on a green at the South Grove golf course. —A. P. O. The conductor of a Stock Yards street car stopped long enough for a man to get off and retrieve a shoe which he had; lost while chasing the car. —M. V. S. A man leaves a pump, beside which was standing a barrel of water, and walk a square to get some water with which to prime the pump.—P. M. M. A man with an arm load of groceries and wearing a sunbonnet. heads for home from a Noble and Georgia Sts. grocery store. —R. G. P. A woman at Riverside Park wore her husband’s watch suspended by a blue ribbon which was about her neck.—B. M. Three persons looked at a big bug and each gave it a different name;

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COAL APLENTY STANDS ALONG RAIL SIDINGS Freight Cars Bulging With Fuel Line Tracks Within Narrow Radius of Indianapolis, Short Auto Trip Discloses. DEALER SEES BIG SUPPLY AT DOOR Unable to Obtain Precious Lumps. With Almost Inexhaustible Amount in Close Range. Miles of coal! While Indianapolis citizens and Indianapolis coal dealers are unable to obtain fuel there are literally miles of coal stretching to the southwest of the city in the direcion of Indiana’s great ruino fields. The coal, loaded in cars, is standing on nearly every siding, some of it within a very few miles of Indianapolis. A trip along the Yandalia division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the direction of Martinsville confirmed reports that enough coal to supply thousands of Indianapolis householders is within easy driving distance. The railroad was followed as closely as roads would permit. The first stop was made south of Maywood, a town in Marion County southwest of the city. Here were thirty-five cars loaded to overflowing with coal standing on a siding. Thirty-Four Cars in Line. Thirty-four of the cars were together. A little distance away was the thirty-fifth, with both ends partially stove in and the middle collapsed in such a way that it was obviously impossible to move it. The next string of coal cars, as far as could be determined following a highway and not the railroad itself, was south of Camby. They stretched as far as the eye could see. There was more than a mile of them! A walk beside them revealed that coupled together on one siding were 140 ears. And every one heaped with coal. Another string was discovered just north of Martinsville. It was situated similarly to the other two. In it were thirty-four cars. At this point a train of thirty-six loaded coal cars steamed into view. Jt was followed as far as Mooresville, where the dirt road and the tracks parted. It could not be determined whether it reached Indianapolis, but from the crowded condition of the sidings it was hard to see where else it could be put. Coal at Dealer's Doorstep. One end of the long string of coal cars at Camby is right at the doorstep of a dealer in coal. He was asked about the situation. “I ordered two ears of coal two months ago and I have just heard they are on the way,” he replied as he surveyed the line on the siding, a line of ears so long he could not possibly see the end. Not counting those in the moving train, 209 cars loaded with coal were discovered on sidetracks between Maywood and a point a short distance south of Mooresville, a distance of possibly a | little over twenty miles. Each of these cars is approximately forty feet long. End to end they make a string more than a mile and a half long. Enough Coal for 1,000 Homes Conservatively estimated each of these cars contains fortyfive tons of coal. By far the most of them are large gondola cars and they probably cause this estimate to be too low. On this basis, however, there are 9,405 tons of coal in these cars, enough to put ten tons in the basements of each of nearly a thousand ! homes. Estimated at the prevailing retail price of $8.50 a ton for Indiana coal this fuel is wortli $79,942.50. This enormous quantity of fuel was found only on a very small section of only one railroad. It is impossible to estimate the number of tons that must be on sidings of the roads running between Indianapolis and the coal fields or connecting with the coal fields.

one said it was a cricket, another called it a horse fly and the third contended it was a locust. —M. B. A sign which read, “Teeth pulled while you wait.” —X'. C. H. A man takes a toothbrush from his pocket and calmly comb his sideburns.—M. F.

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Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature.

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Two street sweepers sweeping water up a hill.—R. E. A man, holding an unlighted cigarette in his hand, stopped in the interurban station, read a sign which said, ‘‘Please do not strike matches on the wall,” scratched a match on the same wall, lighted the cigarette and walked away.—B. C.