Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 109

SMI DECLARES RE LUCKS COPS TO PROTECT RIBS Has Wo Quarrel With School Board on Crossing, Mayor Says. CITES FORCE SHORTAGE Janitors Would Be Used as Traffic Men in Plan Suggested. Mayor Shank took the -warpath today against persons he said are trying to make it appear he wishes to leave school children unprotected at dangerous street crossings. The mayor said there was no quarrel between him and the board of school commissioners, which asked that the policy of stationing patrolmen at dangerous crossings be continued, but somebody has tried to make it appear there is. "I merely told Bert Gadd and W D. Aliison of the school board~that with only approximately ISO patrolmen available every day for actual district duty we could not assign fort-five or fifty of them to guard crossings near schoolhouses. 1 suggested they get some old coats with brass buttons on them for the janitors and let them watch the kids across the street, except at the most dangerous places, where I promised we would keep policemen. They agreed with me it was a good idea. Pay of Janitors Shown The mayor got a copy of school board pay rolls. “Lookie here,” said the mayor. “School janitors get as high as SIOO and $125 a month. City hall janitors get SBO a month. Why can't these high-priced janitors set out and take care of the crossings? They used to allright.” Once into the pay roll the mayor went up in the air when he discovered the name of a janitor, drawing $125 a month, whom he said recently was released from the Indiana State Farm where he was serving time for bootlegging. “If I had a bootlegger on the pay roll over here at the city hall at only 575 a month they’d raise hell about it. Will Dig in “I'm going to dig into the school board business and see what I can find out. I can't do anything about it, I suppose, since I have no control over the board, but I can sure say a lot.” “Look at this item of $877.50 for half month pay of the custodian and his force at the public library building, which doesn't have as much floor space as the City Hall. They have i eighteen on the force at the library. At the City Hall we have nineteen employes, including two telephone operators, two elevator operators, which they don’t have at the library, and it costs us S7BO for a half month.”

DEff COATS GAIN IN REGiSTRATIBN Heavy Increases in Rural and Factory Districts Reported to Chairman. Reports of heavy Democratic registration were given today at a meeting of the Democratic State committee, acording to Walter Chambers. Democratic State chairman. A heavier registration in the rural and factory precincts than ever before was reported. Sixty-five to eighty-five per cent of the Democratic voters registered last election over the State, Chambers said. Active speaking and campaigning will open about Sept. 25, Chambers Eaid. All district meetings except the Seventh and Fifth have been held. Congressional. StateNind county candidates attended the meting, in addition to members of the committee and district chairmen. Detailed plans for the campaign were discussed by the committee. Finances also were discussed. WILL TALK BUDGET School Board to. Consider Finances for 1923, Sept. 26. The financial budget for the 192223 school| year will be disclfssed by the Indianapolis board of school commissioners. Sept. 26. The budget will be made on the assessed valuation of the city. $550,001,220. Taxpayers must submit protests to the State board of accounts not later than the Monday preceding the meeting.

THE WEATHER

Aside from scattered showers in some northern States and on the gulf end south Atlantic coasts, fair weather has been the rule throughout the country since Thursday. It is a little warmer from middle plains States southward and eastward, and cooler over much of the Northwest, where a field of high pressure is movinv eastward. Heavy frost occurred during the night in northwestern North Dakota and some freezing temperatures are reported from Middle Western Canada. Yesterday’s hottest city was Tampa, with a , temperature of 7R, and the minimum temperature was recorded at Bismarck. N. D., at 36 degrees HOURLY TEMPERA TURK. 6 a. m 62 11 a. m 66 7 a. m 60 12 (noon) 68 8 a. m 61 1 p. m 69 9 a. m 62 2 p. m 72 3.0 a. m. 64

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TOM SIMS SAYS: f Running an auto is no excuse for running Longer skirts are not so bad, as far a3 we can see. The price of coal will SIMS abate the smoke nuisance. If a good rule works both ways, not breaking a looking glass means seven years good luck. Our objection to putting Europe on her feet is she wants to sit right back down again. An absolutely noiseless pistol has been invented, so now Chicagoans will get a little sleep. We hear the Ohio politician who doesn’t expect to be President has consented to see a doctor. Since men are flying around like birds we may have scareciows Instead of lightning rods. “Every German,” says M. Reibel, "must go to work.” Wouldn't It have been awful if we had lost? There Is nothing strange in the discovery that an uncivilized African tribe practices dentistry. Years and years ago twin beds were beds with twins in them. statefaiowTe SHOW PROFIT OF IT LEAST 010,030 William N. Jones Declares 1922 Enterprise Financial Success, Despite Contrary Reports. The net profits from the Indiana State Fair will total between flO.nni) and $15,090, William N. Jones, financial secretary of the State board ol agriculture said today. Reports current during the week of the fair supported the popular belief that the fair would probably operate at a loss due to the shrinkage in gate receipts. Mr. Jones said it would probably be thirty days before all bills were checked and paid, but $15,000 has already been applied on the new horse bam debt and the treasury bids fair to bold sufficient money for paying all premiums and expenses yet due, with the possibility of a small amount remaining, he said. Those who learned of the fair's success today were unanimous in extending congratulations to the members of the agricultural board for the es ficient and profitable management of the fair in spite of unfavorable complications. MISS HUMS GUEST IT KEITH'S National Beauty Contest Winner Honored at Theater Program. Miss Indianapolis (Miss Thelma Blossom) winner of two of the principal prizes in the national beauty pageant at Atlantic City, was the guest of Mrs. Roltare Eggleston at B. F. Keith's theater last night. Mrs. Eggleston accompanied Miss Blossom to Atlantic City as chaperon. M.ss Blossom sat in an upper box. Other boxes were occupied by guests, including Miss Blossom's parents and grandparents. Miss Indianapolis arrived at the theater in a Yellow Taxicab and attracted considerable atten tion from the crowd which filled the lobby. During the performance a spotlight was directed on the box occupied by Miss Blossom as the Oriole Terrace Orchestra, headliner on the Keith bill, played “Back Home Again in Indiana." Applause followed this incident.

A Hies Face Prospect of Great War to Preven t Encroach men t of Turks By United Press IDXDON, Sept. 15.—The Allies may go to war against Mustapha Kemal to prevent the Ottoman leader from seizing all that Turkey lost in the world war. events today showed. Mustapha Kemal is reported to have delivered an ultimatum to Great Britain demanding not only Constantinople but most of Thrace, as far as the River Maritza. British troops already may have clashed with the Turks. Paris and French officials announce French troops are being hastily withdrawn from the Asiatic ide of the Dardanelles. . Demands Unconditional Surrender Kemal has demanded unconditional surrender of all Asia Minor, including Constantinople and Thrace, according to a statement published by the Daily Mail. The Turk declares he will send his Moslems to storm and capture Constantinople unless the Allies hand over the city to him. “And I cannot wait indefinitely," the statement said. What was once known as “Turkey in Europe” which the Allies affirmed should never again exist, is demanded by Kemal In his ultimatum. The Turk wants most of Thrace and a great swath of Europe stretching 150 miles east of Constant.nople. Challenge Startles Europe The challenge of the Turk has startled Europe as did the ultimatum of Austria to Serbia in 1914. The British press is agitated, forseeing another Balkan war arising from the present crisis and a subsequent European war into which the larger nat ons may be drawn. All French troops have been ordered withdrawn from the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles, it was announced today. In Greek officisils quarters, it was declared the Athens government is prepared for a “last ditch" fight to retain Thrace and thwart what Greek calls the “Bulgarian menace.” It is believed in Athens that the Bulgarians are aiding the Turks. Turks Accuse Armenians The Turks accuse the Armen ans of applying the torch to the foreign quarters of Smyrna, according to the correspondent of the London Daily Mail. One hundred thousand persons are in danger of death or starvation, according to the dispatch, which also stated that the British fleet has rescued all the British and some of the natives.

SO MRS OF COIL STAND IOEE NOW IfIBJP DHIS National Road Trip Reveals Plentitude of Fuel in Long String of Gondolas. SHORTAGE IN INDIANAPOLIS I. C. Official Says Railroads Can Move Coal if Public Cooperates. Thousands of tona of coal are standing on a siding near Ben Davis, west of Indianapolis, while consumers in Indianapolis have been unable to obtain fuel, a trip along the National road revealed today. The line of cars starts just west of Ben Davis and continues for nearly a mile to the bridge over the National road. In the string were ninety-six cars, every one loaded with coal. This is just a small part of the coal standing on sidings between Indianapolis and the coal fields. Locate 305 Cars Investigation thus far, within a narrow radius of Indianapolis, has revealed 305 carloads of coal standing idly on sidings within easy reach of the city. These cars are each about forty feet long, making the string if all the cars were together a total of 12,200 feet. This is more than two miles and a quarter of coal! In these cars are approximately 13,725 tons of coal, enough to keep thousands of persons warm. The railroads can handle the coal if the public will cooperate, C. H. Markham, president of the Illinois Central Railroad, who was in Indianapolis, said. He admitted, however, that the roads have found transportation of fuel difficult. Rolling Stock Bad There Is serious lack of open top cars to handle coal and other materials, according to dealers and officials of the State highway commission. This condition is said to be due to the fact that hundreds of cars are in such condition they can not be used. On the trip west and northwest of the city a long string of empty coal cars were found on a siding at Dan ville. Only two loaded cars were on the tracks there. With the coming of cooler weather dealers have been besieged with orders for fuel. Only a few of them can be filled. FIRE PREVENTION CAMPAIGN GOAL Extensive Educational and Clean-up Drive to Take Place in Indianapolis. A fire prevention campaign, which, its organizers suy. will be the most inclusive of its kind ever carried on in any city, will be conducted in Indianapolis. Sept. 25 to Oct. 16. according to Frank G. Jordan, < hairrnan of the fire prevention campaign committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. A decrease in fire loss has been noted since the campaign earned on last year. Much apprehension is left, however, regarding the effect of a serious coal shortage when cold weather sets in. “People tyill try hasty experiments to warm their houses.” he said. An intensive clean-up campaign during the period—Sept. 25 to Oct 11 — will he followed by a systematic Inspection by the fire department. Automobile Stolen Mrs. Morris Hadley, 1305 Eugene St., told the pol.ee today her automobile was stolen from in front of CIO N. Pennsylvania St.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 1922

He Follows 'Em to School Each Day

When Billy was hit by an auto an and bruised a bit all the kids in the Penge district of London went to see him, for Billy made their acquaintance when he followed his owner’s children to school.

Lamp 1,000 Feet Distant Lighted By Radio Transmitted Current SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 15.—Radio transmission of elertric power today drew close attfntion of many California scientists as a result of experiments conducted at the United States Radio Corporation laboratories here. It was announced that in tests made during the last few days sufficient electrical energy had been transmitter by radio through the ether and entirely without wires to light a standard electric light bulb at a distance of 1,000 feet.

MOVE TO REOPEN ‘BETWEEN TRUCKS’ PAVING DISPUTE City and Car Cmopany Represented at Hearing of Petition. A hearing on the petition of the city of Indianapolis, represented by Taylor E. Groninger, cor;ioratlon counsel, for a rehearing of the case of the city versus the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, In which it was held by a previous decision of the public service commission that the railway would not be required to pave the streets between its tracks, was held before the commission today. The railway compay was repre- | rented by Ferdinand A, Winter, in j whose arguments it was represented that the street car company was oper- j atlng for the benefit of the citizens of Indianapolis at such a narrow mar- j gin of profit that to be required to expend money for paving would result in losses to the company. The case originated with the board | of public works of Indianapolis, which 1 ordered the paving done at the street car company’s expense. The commission In its original order held that the city and not the railway should stand the expense. DEACONESS DESL QUEERED Os ROND Ghank and Syndicate Probably Will Not Purchase Bankrupt Hospital. The hospital business probably trill not be a side line of Mayor Shank after all. The mayor said today it looked as if the deal v hereby he and a syndicate of city officials and other citizens proposed to buy the Deaconess Hospital property for SIIO,OOO was likely to fall through. The hospital is in bankruptcy. “They want us to put up .a bond of $65,000 that we’ll operate the property as a hospital for a year,” said the mayor. “We can’t guarantee to run the place as a hospital any longer than It makes money as such.” LILLY QUITS BOARD Commissioners Consider Successor for Sunnyside Place. James W. Lilly, president of tho Lilly Hardware Company, has resigned as member of "the board of control of Sunnyside, the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital. Inability to give the office the time it needed due to hi3 many business interests was the reason given for resignation by Mr. Lilly, the commissioners said. WANTS AUDITORIUM Mayor Considers Using Seegar Bequest on Municipal Theater. Use of $50,000, bequeathed the city for welfare purposes by the late Anna Seegar for construction on an auditorium in front of the “Me and S' rah” municipal theater at Garfield Park, is being considered, Mayor Shark announced today. Seats of the theatre now are housed in a tent.

Feared ‘Rough ' House When He Blew Door Off “Why did you leave your husband?” Judge T. J. Moll of Superior Court, Room 5, asked Mrs. Elizabeth Derr, who wanted a divorce from John L. Derr. “He came home and blew the door off with dynamite, so I left because I was afraid he might get rough,” the witness told the court. She got a divorce, but Judge Moll added a restraining order preventing her re-marriage within two years. GASCHIRGECISE SET EDO SEPT. 18 Kappes Will Pass cn Reasonableness of $1.20 Rato Recently Set. The hearing to determine the reasonableness of the $1.20 gas rate established by the Federal Court on appeal of the Citizens Gas Company after tho public service commission had refused an increase from 90 cents will be held before William P. Kappes, master in chancery appointed by the court Sept. 19. At tiie time the Federal Court granted the increai-e It was arranged that the Increase paid by customers should he held as a trust fund until such time ns the court should determine whether the increase was just and reasonable, the return of the money thus paid in by subscribers to depend upon the ruling of the court. The public service commission, it is announced, has employed two law firms to assist in the defense of Its case and it was intimated the public utility committee of Indiana cities, which formed at the Severin Hotel yesterday, may be represented in de sense of the commission’s refusal for increased rates. TONY YAMROS FREE Man Who Threatened Governor Esrain's From Insane Hospital. Information that Tony Yamros of Gary, escaped from the insane hospital at Ixigansport on the night of Sept. 12, has been received here. He was held following threats to assassk nate Governor McCray because the State industrial board handed down a decision which ho thought unfair. AUTO GOES OVER CURB Woman Hit, May Hie—Store Front Demolished. Josle Malone, negress, living on Fayette St... was probably fatally injured, the front of a grocery at 60G N. Senate Av„ demolished, and an automobile damaged when Thomas C. Laffey lost control of a car he was driving at North and Senate Ave., today. HEADS CLOTHIERS Sol Schloss Honored By National Association. Sol Schloss of Schloss Brothers Company, Indianapolis, has been chosen a vice president of the National Retail Clothiers’ Association, according to word received today from New Pork, where the association is now in session. Fred Voiland of Topeka, Kas., was elected president; H. R. King of Washington, Dave Connelly of Tennessee and W. Flynn of Madison, Wis., vice presidents, and Charles Wry, executive secretary. Wry was re-elected.

PLENTY OF COAL AT PAID POICES, HOOVER'S DESIRE Representatives of Utilities Industries and Operators in Fuel Conference. RESERVE STOCKS ARE GONE Railroads Unable to Carry Weekly Tonnage Called for in Emergency. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept 15.—’To Insure the public plenty of coal at reasonable prices this winter, representatives of coal carrying railroads, coal producers, leading industries and public utilities meet here today with Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Hoover believes present prices too high; also that a tendency by railroads and other great public utilities and industrial plants to hoard coal constitutes a menace to public welfare. Now that both the bituminous and anthractie miners are again working at capacity, Hoover and other members of the President's coal distribution committee feel that the basic problem is that of hauling. The country's weekly requirements total approximately 9,000,000 tons. Five and a half million tons are required to feed the railroads, other utilities and public institutions. Industry, business and homes require the rest. In view of the fact that teserve stocks of coal were exhausted during the coal strike, the public utilities and other big consumers of coal are trying to build up their reserves and meet their current needs at the same time. To meet both it would be necessary for the railroads to haul approximately 17,000,000 tons weekly for the next six weeks. This is an impossible tusk, Hoover stated.

UNIT! IS ORBED BETWEEN SECTS Episcopal House of Bishops Passes Amendments to Laws of Church on Divorce, By United Press PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 15 —Church unity, the end of discord between the two score and more sects of the Protestant faith and the cessation of turmoil within many of the sects themselves, is the aim of the fortysixth triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, according to the report submitted to the convention today. The house of bishops passed an amendment to the divorce canon prohibiting the remarriage of persons divorced for any cause arising after marriage. Persons who so remarry are denied certain church offices, including baptism. The house of deputies heard resolutions condemning States which laek stringent marriage laws and another condemning masked secret societies. PREACHER SENDS SLAVED TO DEATH Overseas Chaplain Retains His Nerve When Called on to Spring Trap. By United Press FT. MADISON. lowa, Sept. 15. Eugene C. Weeks, convicted slayer of George Fosdick, was hanged today by Clergyman Sheriff W. E. Rohb, The trap was sprung at 12 o'clock. Weeks slept little last night. He wrote letters for hours, in an effort to save Orrie Cross, condemned to die for the same crime, from his fate. Weeks tried to unnerve the pastorsheriff with profanity and then he discussed details of the hanging. Robbs, wjio served over seas as a chaplain, ai\d won the distinguished service cross, maintained his calm. ASKS LEAGUE OFFICES By United Press GENEVA. Sept. 15.—The League of Nations was called upon today to take steps to prevent Turkish invasion of Georgia, a republic in Trans-Caucasia. This move came in a resolution introduced by Belgium.

j SPIEEjg^QDAY

Butcher handle the mushy end of a cigar stub, rub his hand over an otherwise good looking piece of steak, and prospective customer walk out.— O. E. S. A policeman in an auto use the west bound route through east bound alley.—G. H. T. A man find, after climbing on the porch roof to fasten a screen, that the screen must be torrr open in order tor him to re-enter the house.—C. \V. C. Patrons of a southside movie house tecome panic striken when they misunderstood a juvenile war crv of

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TURK VICTIMS’ DEATH CRIES HEARD ON SHIP Merciless Tortures Inflicted Upon Greeks and Armenians Driven Forward by Hordes of Moslems Under Mustapha. AMERICANS MAY HAVE BEEN SLAIN Ghastly Scenes Reported During Reign of Terror in Which Christians Sought in Vain to Escape Mohammedan Swords. BULLETIN By United Press LONDON, Sept. 15.—The allies will stand together to resist any attempt by Mustapha Kemal Pasha to invade the neutral zone and seize Constantinople. This is the understanding in diplomatic quarters here today. Diplomatic officials commenting on Kemal’s statement that he intended to take Constantinople and that he would fight - the British if necessary, declared this threat was not alarming in view of the solidarity of the allies on the absolute necessity of maintaining freedom of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 15.—6 P. M. —Smyrna is a roaring inferno, with scores of massacred victims being imprisoned behind walls of fire, dispatches from Constantinople, and from British naval forces anchored off the burning city, reported tonight. One hundred thousand persons are in danger of death in the conflagration or from starvation following destruction of all food supplies, according to advices to the London Daily Mail. City Resembles Furnace Special dispatches wirelessed from the British battleship, Iron Duke, described Smyrna as a furnace. “There is an unbroken wall of fire t(wo miles long, with twenty distinct volcanoes of jagged tongues of flame, leaping up hundreds of feet,” said this message. “Dense mobs of fugitives are huddled on the quays, trapped and forced to choose between death in the advancing flames or death in the deep waters. Their screams of terror ran be heard for miles.” Greeks Accuse Turks of Arson Greek refuges accuse the Turks of starting the fire. The Turks on the other hand allege the torch was put to the city bv the Greeks themselves. The Turkish troops who had been held in control since the capture of the city only with the utmost difficulty, broke from all i restrictions Wednesday. Claiming they were making reprisals for attacks on them by the inhabitants of the city, bands of soldiers rushed through the streets of the Greek quarters, firing and looting. Scores Reported Butchered Several score persons are reported to have been butchered in various parts of the town. There was no general massacre, but the slaughter was prevented from becoming general only by the sudden spread of the flames which drove Turks and their victims alike out of the doomed city. As the flames leaped from block to block the Turkish troops were withdrawn from Smyrna and the inhabitants, saved by the sword only to be menaced by fire, fled in huge masses to the water front and trooped along the roads leading toward the suburbs. Launches and other small boats from tlie British fleet in the harbor carried hundreds of victims to safety on the warships. By United Press ATHENS, Sept. 15.—Turkish hordes murdered and looted today as Smyrna was swept by fire, Kemalist outrages in the city which was wrested from the Greeks by the Turks were described by American refugees who arrived at Piraeus on board the American destroyer Sampson. Fire which was started in the foreign quarters by a Turkish sergeant, according to witnesses, is now beyond control. The entire Greco-Armenian section has been wiped out and the flames are spreading, creating panic among the 200,000 Christian refugees. Wholesale massacres by Turks of Greeks and Armenians were reported. Americans Molested. Several Americans have been molested and it is feared some may have been killed. An American named MacKlachan was rescued after he was beaten nearly to death by Turks. Half dead, he was taken aboard an American destroyer. Whether MacKlachan is the professor who has been president of the International University for years could not he ascertained. Hordes of Turks, bent on excesses, roam the streets sacking shops in the foreign quarters.

"Fight! Fight!" for the well known alarm of “Fire! Fire!” —D. F. C. Where “Miss Indianapolis weighs thirty-eight pounds,” according to a New York newspaper's version of the Atlantic City pageant.—E. C. B. The first cloudy day since fair week, a window washer for downtown building appear, squeeze a sponge in the air, drops of water fall on an old ledy below, who complacently raised her umbrella, smiled and continued her journey.—C. F. C. A wife chase her husband through a refuse pile as the latter was start-

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Cooler Saturday night.

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ing for neighborhood Sunday craps game.—J. D. C. A woman prove that her infant’s lunch need not be neglected because she was driving a flivver. —P. H. Little girl transporting big yellow cat in a little bird cage through downtown traffic.—M. B. Busy business man take time at his lunch hour to assist a blind man across a crowded street. —R. H. Second-hand clothing merchant, tovoicing goods, and whistling strains of "Onward Christian. O. T. . . .