Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 115, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 115

LOVER KILLS WIDOW IN DOWNTOWN STORE

ENGLAND FRIES TUSKS' IITATION TS PEUEPULET Lord Curzon Prepares Note Following Conference With Poincare. GREAT POWERS AROUSED Seriousness of Situation in Near East Impresses Diplomats. Retaliation By United Press SMYRNA, Sept. 22.—Greeks are massaereing Moslems in Thrace In retaliation for the alleged atrocities In Smyrna. Turkish officials reported here today. By United Press PARIS. Sept. 22. —Lord Curzon. British foreign minister, admitted here today that the allied conference is drafting its terms of the invitation to the Near East peace parley, ; which will be sent to Mustaph i Ke- j mal, leader of the Turkish Nationalists. Curzon made his announcement following a conference with Premier Poincare of France. GUARD ORDERED EAST Grenadiers Departure Impresses Brit- ; ain With Imminence of \Var. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 22.—The second j battalion of the Grenadier Guards and the third battalion of the Grenadier Guards and the third battalion cl the Cold Stream Guards were ordered to j the Near East today. The Duke of Connaught reviewed! the Grenadiers, who are to sail over-j 6eas tonight, and wished them godspeed and an early return. Will Maintain Traditions "I am sure the Grenadiers will maintain their great regimental traditions,’’ the duke declared. The dispatch of the two detach ments impressed the Britisher with the reality of the danger of war with ■ Turkey, because in normal times the I guards act as body guards for the j king, and are never sent overseas except in the event of a real war. SEEK WAY TO PEACE Nations Realize Seriousness of Situa tion Created by Turks. By United Press PARIS, Sept. 22. —France and ! Britain made an eleventh hour attempt today to avoid hostilities in the Near East by getting together on a Turkish policy. France Urges Gentleness France was holding the Turks must be dealt with gently, and their claims to the Thrace and the Dardanelles settled by diplomacy. Britain was standing firm in its relulve not to yield to the Turkish demands until a peace conference has been held. The British troops were remaining alone at Chanak, on the b&nkk of the Dardanelles, facing the assembling Turkish hosts. AIRCRAFT ARE READY Large Scale Operations Will Mark Opening of Hostilities. By United Press CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 22. Aircraft attacks on a large scale probably will mark outbreak of actual hostilities between the British and Turks. With the Turks reported bringing ' up heavy artillery, and hurrying their shock troops from Smyrna toward the new front, the British have assembled powerful aircraft squadrons behind Ihelr iines and are ready to loose them the minute Mustapha Hemal's forces cross the ‘‘dead line”—the border of the neutral zone, violation of which meanswar. Tanks, armored cars and other fighting machines developed in the World War are being rushed to the Near East. The Moslems are assembling In great strength along the “dead line” according to reports filtering back. Jugo slavia today started concentration of her forces on the Bulgarian border, according to word received here.

THE WEATHER

Some light showera have occurred in the South Atlantic States and east Gulf region since Thursday morning, also in New Mexico and Arizona, while elsewhere the weather has been generally fair. It is a little cooler in the Middle Atlantic States, and warmer as a rule, In most parts of the great central valley, where the readings are again pear or above normal average. New Orleans reported the maximum temperature of 74 degrees while Roseburg, Ore., reported the minimum reading of 44 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 60 11 a. m 79 7 a. m. 64 12 (noon) 80 8 a- m. RS-vl p. m S3 ! 9 a. m 74 2 p. m........ 83 10 a. zru....... 76

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TOM SIMS SAYS: f There is a big prune crop. Heaven help the Married life in a Hat has a tendency to become that way. Oh, what is so rare SIMS as a quiet day in Ireland? The bonus bill rates another wound chevron. What makes a cat madder than seeing the dog catcher loafing? The Shaker Club at South Union, Ky.. Is bankrupt. That reminds us, Ford closed his plant. Our oil output is increasing. And since school opened the castor oil intake is increasing. Rickenbacker, famous aviator. Is married. While he works his wife will look up to him. Bread wasn't made with yeast until 1650, but some of it hasn't kept very well. Turkish atrocities are being committed in Asia Minor and smoked in the United States. A man does not always say what he thinks Lecauserit is not proper to cuss before ladies. Some wives think their duty is to play bridge and work Bridget. Ex-Senatqr Cole is 100 years old. He can remember years and years ago when Congress worked. FORD WILL WORK EXTRA EIfLOIES IS MEET DEMAND Plant Said to Be 25,000 Orders Eehind, Due to Recent Short Lay-off. By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 22.—Contracts from Kentucky and West Virginia operatos to supply the Ford ‘Motor Company indefinitely with 40,000 tons of coal dally, brought 70,000 Ford workers back to work today. | With more than 25,000 orders be--1 hind and receipt dally of one hundred | orders in excess of the plant’s capacity of 5,200 cars, Ford today was preparing to organize extra shifts to catch up. P. PRATER FILES HABEAS CORPUS Alleged Bandit Charges Restraint cf Liberty Before Moll. Robert L. Prater, Kankakee, 111., held In jail here in connection with a bank robbery at Alert. Ind., and said to be one of ‘“Sonny” Dunn's gang, has declared himself innocent and filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Marion County Superior Court. Judge T. J. Moll, room 6. was scheduled to hear the case today at 2 p. m. Mrs. Cynthia Prater, the prisoner’s wife, who declared that “Robert was in trouble enough,” dismissed the divorce case she had pending against him before Judge Moll. BOOZE CREW PEIS HAIITONICMIKER Federal Sleuths Charge Rich Manufacturer With Gross Law Violations. By United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 22.—Abraham Auerbach, former official of a million-dollar hair tonic company, is under arrest here today charged with conspiracy to violate the liquor laws. His arrest, according to Federal officials, resulted from an investigation into an alleged conspiracy which is said to involve withdrawal of large quantities of alcohol from distilleries in all parts of the country.

BOBBED HAIR IS LURE Causes Theft and Arrest, Police'Say

Willard Mark, 19, of 726 N. New Jersey St., was strong for big automobiles, speed and telephone girls who wear their hair bobbed. Asa result Mark today was under arrest on charges of vehicle taking and vagrancy. His bond is $2,000. Wednesday night. Captain of Traffic Mike Glenn saw an automobile cross Meridian St. at the rate of fifty miles an hour. He pursued the speeder and at Twenty-Third St. and Park Ave. caught him as he stopped to let out a pretty little bobbed hair girl. “It will cost you about S4O for yojir hurry,” 6ald the policemen. “Be in court Thursday afternoon.

URGES DROPPING MANUAL TUNC TQCUTCROWDIIG Business Director Says Relief for Schools Would Result Temporarily. POINTS TO BIG EXPENSE Different Opinion Held by Graff —Thinks Vocational Work Most Important. Fear that vocational education and instruction in the household arts of sewing a.nd cooking will overshadow the academic subjects in the curriculum of the Indianapolis school child was expressed by Walter Twlname, business director of the Indianapolis pub I lie schools. Temporary abolition of I the subjects and use of rooms to j teach academic subjects was suggested by Twiname as a solution for the housing p.oblem. Investigation of buildings constiuet i ed during the past two school years 1 shows an expend.ture for elementary schools of $2,259,426. This was sp-nt s for four new build.ngs and six addi tions, containing 121 rooms, forty three of which are devoted to sub jects Twlname suggests be abolished Vocational Expenditures More than thirty-five per cent of the money was for shops, cooking and sewing rooms, according to figures prepared by Frank L. Reisner, secre tary. TIA number of rooms used for vocational and household arts educa ] tion Is taken from a statement by I Harry E Wood, head of the depart ment of vocational training. The majority of these rooms, accord ing to E. U. Graff, superintendent of schools, are basement rooms and unfitted for class instruction. Those lr. the recently constructed buildings however, are faced with glazed brick and some of thorn have as many as six lights in them. “The elimination of those subjects ' would not free enough rooms to take j care of our academic needs," Graff i said. He pointed out that manual Instruc--1 tion had been cut to the min.mum In ! the grade schools, being taught only j in the seventh and eighth grades. Graff's Opinion Differs The activity -orovlded by manual j instr child. Graft muu. "The American people believe In j education and are willing to pay what- . ever It costs,” he said, "If they believe | the money Is to be used wisely.” I Manual instruction Is necessary to the modern school curriculum, Graff said, and that is what the American I parents are demanding. The compulsory attendance law ! raising the age children may leave school, the fact school boards In the past have failed to provide for the | normal Increase, the new tax law Is not functioning properly, and the economic condition which causes more children to attend school In the time of depression, coupled with the fact that no buildings were erected during 1 the war, at the request of the Government, were giver by Graff as rca- | sons why Indianapolis is behind In | her school building plan. OPERASINGED DROPS ACTION Mme. Matzenauer Fears Suit for Divorce From Chauffeur Would Hinder Tour. By United Xeto& i WHITE PLAINS, N. Y„ Sept. 22 — Although Mme. Margaret Matzenauer, opera singer, and her chauffeur husband. Floyd Glotzback of San Francisco, Tuesday cancelled suits for separation which both had brought here and In California, their tiff has not ended, according to the diva. So far as she is concerned, the songster indicated, Glotzback’s services as a "lady's maid.” which he resigned to return to his taxicabs, are no longer in demand. “There has been no reconciliation and can be none,” Mme. Matzenauer announced through her attorneys. Her sole object In dropping the action was to prevent litigation interfering with her operatic career, she said.

The captain made a note of the num bee on the car. When the driver failed to appear an affidavit was made out for the arrest of the man who had taken out the license. The police brought in H. B. Conklin. 3163 Grace land i ve. Detecrives then started an Investigation t<> find the driver of Conklin's stolen au nmobile. They searched the neighborhf od of Park Ave. and Twen tj'-Third S. They found the pretty girl with b'bbed hair, but she didn’t know where the nice young man who took her for a.‘ automobile ride lived. While Detectives Klaiber and Reynolds were que> tioning the girl the big automobile drove up and stopped:*"

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 1922

SOB STUFF Does (Not) Belong It leaked out today: At the meeting of the G. O. P. spellbinders at the Hotel Seven n the Rev. John Wesley Hill urged: “You must get sentimental.” Albert J. Beveridge, candidate for United States Senator, came In after the Rev. Mr. Hill had finished and advised, according to report: “The time for sentiment is past. What tne people want is facts.” MDNON STRIKERS IN INDIANAPOLIS RETURNTDWORK E. M. Costin, Big 4 President, Here for Conference With Local Road Officials. Machinery to cot striking workers back to work in Indianapolis railroad shops ground siowly today. Thirty seven strikers returned to tjie Monon shops, Twenty-Eighth St. and Cornell Ave., the first involved in the walk out here to go back. Approximately 100 Monon strikers have not jet been given places. E. M. Costin, head of the Big Four system, came from Cincinnati and went into a conference at the office of B. C Byers, general superintendent, in the Majestic building. Costtn's business was not made public but It was reported that approximately thirty master mechanics and supervisors from all parts of the system came to the meeting. Superintendents of motive power and car repair departments, who have headquarters here, also were understood to be In the meeting. Heads of the_Big Four shop crafts, gathered here, expected to get a conference with officials cf the road at last, following Costln's visit, but they declined to make any statement. Local Big Four officials have contended their road was not party to any strikeending agreement and have twice refused to meet a committee of strikers Shopmen sent a committee to M. V Hynes, superintendent of the 0., I. * W. Charles P. Hanrahan, head of the local shopernft federation, said Hynes told the committee he could not con fer with them because B. A. Worth Ington, president, was out of the city, but Worthington would return Saturday. Word has been receded by strikers here that the B. & 0., under the agreement by which its men now are going back to work, will not repair equipment of the C., I. & W., at Stores and Hamilton, Ohio, Springfield, 111., or It did before the strike, Hanrahan said. Hanrahan reported officials of the ! P.elt Railroad would not meet a committee, while negotiations have not been attempted by strikers of the i Illinois Central, Pennsylvania and L. I E. & W. WILL TRY TOWER ' TRAFFIC SYSTEM # City to Place Light Control at Meridian and Washington Sts. The tower system of trafflo control will be tried out on Washington St. between Alabama Bt. and Senate Ave., Mayor Shank announced. Frank Wolf of H. P. Wasson A Cos., who has served on a traffic Investigating committee, appointed by tie mayor, offered to pay the cost of erecting an experimental tower at Meridian and Washington Sts, snd the gift will be s.ccepted. The electric power utilities will be asked to supply current for the tower lights ' free during the experimental stage, the mayor said. Traffic control towers are located on top of a high column. The operator controls traffic for from six to twelve blocks in each direction by flashing high powered lights. HARDINGSIENS FUELMEASDRES Anti-Profiteering and Cost Finding Laws Given Executive Approval. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.—The fuel anti-profiteering bill and the Borah bill providing for a complete investigation of the coal industry were sign ed by President Harding today. The Cummins-Winslow anti-profi-teering measure givfes the Interstate Commerce Commission sweeping powers to halt high prices by governing the allotment of coal cars. The Borah act authorizes appointment of a fact finding commission which will probe both the anthracite and bituminous industries and make 'recommendations to Congress with a view to preventing repetition of the 1922 strike.

DADDY, WANTED HER A BOY :■ T .V- - A’' Fredericao Sarno of Newark, N. J., was so disappoints when Angelina, ehown here, was born a girl and not a boy that he left hts wife and went back to Italy, Mrs. Samo charges In suing him for a divorce.

SINE DIE Congress Quits By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The gavel fails this afternoon on the second session of the 67th Congress. Unless there is a last minute hitch, sine die adjournment will come shortly after 2 o'clock. Many Senators and Congressmen, already have left for their homes. By tomorrow the wheels of the Nation's law making mill will be at a dead stop after running continously for nearly eighteen months. SCHOOLGIRL, IN DAZE, POUND ON Viola Mash, 16, Technical Pupil, Discovered by Farmers Miles From Home. Detectives today were trying to unravel the cause for the condition of Viola Mali, 16. of 2616 N. Illinois St., a student at Technical High School, who ■’was found In a dazed condition on a lonely road nar Fish j era, Ind., last night. When found j walking down the road about dus’,: by Mullins McGinty and 11. Clark, both farmers living on R. R. No. 1, ; the girl was unable to tell her name. She was thirsty, tired, dustj-, and , her feet had blisters from the long trudge. She was only able to hand ; them a slip of paper with the name of Mary Minter, 3227 Park Ave., but said her name was not Mary. McGlnety called the police who got j In connection with the Minter girl, ; and she told the police that she had j last seen the Mash girl on the campus j about noon yesterday. She remem-! bered, however, that she Had been asked by the Mash girl for her name and address. She gave it to her on a slip of paper and it was this slip that | she gave the men at Fishers. Her parents went to that place last j night and took her home, where she has been unable to make a statement to the police. DEMANDS STATE SEIZE CDAEMINES Chicago Council Orders Bill Drawn Authorizing Governor of Illinois to Act. By United A’etc* CHICAGO, Sept 22.—Aroused by reports that Chicago faces a coal shortage this winter, the city eouncil Thursday ordered a committee to draw up a bill authorizing Governor Small to seize the coal mines in an emergency. The committee w,ll pesent the bill So the Illinois Legislature and urge its immediate passage. Seizure of the Illinois mines would save consumers from $1 to $5 a ton. Mayor William Hale Thompson >'•- dared. Thompson charged the mine operators with forcing the miners to strike so that surplus stocks of coal on hand last spring would be used up. CALL IN ARTILLERY Beveridge Managers Announce Out-of-State Speakers. Speaking dates for three out ofState men and engagement of ‘wo other national speakers were announced yesterday by Clarance R. Martin, chairman of the Republican Speakers’ Bureau. Senator George Moses of New Hampshire, will be in Indiana Oct. 6-10, and Congressman Carol! of Maine will have speaking dates Oct. 2-7. Senator Borah of Idaho will speak in Indiana two days, and Senator Jones of Washington will make speeches Sept. A and 28.

M’CARDLESAYS COAL IS MOVING AT FASTED BATE Less Evidence of Reconsignment Tactics Found Since State Started Action.

HANDWRITING? That railroads were stirred to action In delivering coal for the city garbage reduction plant by the expose of the Jndianapolis Times is the belief of employes of the board of sanitary commissioners. Th reduction plant was In danger of being closed for lack of fuel. On Sept. 13 city officials were told by the railroads that they had no coal for the plant, although It had been ordered from the mines for some time. On Sept. 14 the Tines published the fact that miles us loaded coal cars were standing idle on sidings near Indianapolis. On Sept. 15 the railroads delivered seven cars of fuel for the sanitary commission. Since then five more have been received.

Evidence of reconsignment of coal ; In transit from mines on Indiana railroads is becoming less and less, John W. McCardle, chairman of thy public service commission and the State fuel emergency committee, announced | today. Publicity given to the State's j intended action against any such prac I lice was assigned as the principal | reason for the absence of any further ! attempt to profiteer against the coal consuming public, McCardle said. Investigation -by the commission, which followed closely the Investigation by The Times revvealed that liundreds of cars of coal were standI mg on sidetracks near Indianapolis I and In the coal producing region. | The United States Chamber of Commerce, in communications from Washington to all its members throughout the Nation, is calling for closer cooperation between manufacturers and business men and the railroads In an effort to facilitate distribution of coal. The chamber has asked a few things of each manufacturer: 1- Confine purchases of coal under 1 present conditions closely to current j needs only. 2. Suspend accumulation of advance stocks of coal until the present emergency pressure on production Is relieved. 3. Unload cars Immediately and return them. 4. Promptly furnish material required for new railroad equipment or repairs. uaikahTman FIGURES IN CASE Jealousy Believed Motive of Killing Rector and Choir Singer, By United Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Sept. 12. —“Find the woman." This was the order today in the investigation of the murders of Rev. Edward W. Hall, rector of fashionable Church of St. John the Evangelist, and his choir leader, Mrs. Elinor Mills Investigators devoted their efforts to finding the "jealous woman,” who, it is reported, gossiped with church members regarding alleged intimacy of the clergyman and Mrs. Mills. This woman is said to have Informed Mills, sexton of the church, that he should keep a close watch on his wife.

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WOMAN SHOT, TAKES FEW STEPS, PALLS DEAD; PROPRIETOR A WITNESS Slaying Follows Refusal of Mrs. Lillian Stevenson to Accompany William Johnson on Trip to California. FIVE OR SIX SHOTS FIRED AT VICTIM Six-Page Unopened Love Letter Written by Spurned Suitor to Woman Found on Body by Coroner. Because she refused to go with him to California, William •Johnson, who lives on the Madison road, today shot and killed Mrs. Lillian Stevenson, bookkeeper at the White Furniture Store, 24 1 V. V ashiogton St., shortly before 1 o’clock this afternoon. The shooting occurred in the store. The story of the shooting was told to the police by Tom Quinn, proprietor of the store. Quinn said he came up the cellar steps when Johnson said to' him: “Well Tnm, you won’t see me after tonight. lam going back to California.” “You don’t mean it, do yon, Bill?” Quinn said he said to Johnson, At this point, Quinn said, Mrs. Stevenson declared that if Johnson went to California she would not go with him. Johnson, without warning, drew a revolver and fired five or six shots, Quinn told the police.

BDDTLEGGEBIP TIED DP IN SPAIN | Federal Agents Say Millions of Dollars of Booze Came in Via Smuggler. [ By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 22—Charging j that the liner Korona, owned by the I bankrupt Globe Line, Inc., now tied ! up at Cadiz, Spain, has been used to smuggle milliolns rff dollars' worth of liquor into the United States. Federal authorities todaj' prepared to take action to seize the vessel. Col. William Hayward, United States district attorne>\ said he had proof that the Korona sailed on fraudulent papers, and that Its bootleg op- j eratiOns on the high seas were directed i by wireless from New York. ANTI-FIRE WEEK SET McCray Proclaims Oct. 2 0 Time for Prevention Measures. The week Os Oct. 2 to 9 has been designated “Fire Prevention Week” by Governor McCray in a proclamation which sets forth figures to show the tremendous loss each year by fire. During the five-year period ending in 1920 the total loss from fires throughout the State reached $33,000.010. The loss in 1920 alone was almost $10,000,000. Together with the property loss Is coupled the loss of 1 fe. GETS WIGGINS REPORT Governor McCray Hears From Penal Farm Head on Escape. Governor McCray said today he was in possession of a report from C. B. Reward, superintendent of the Indiana Penal Farm concerning' the escape of “Chuck” Wiggins, Indianapolis pugilist from the institution this week, but declined to make the report public. CARRIERS TO SKATE Riverside Rink Host to Times Youngsters Friday Night. “Come on out, the skating’s fine!” That will be the cry at the Riverside skating rink. Parkway Blvd. and Thirtieth St., Friday night. One hundred Indianapolis Times carrier boys will hold a skating party at the rink, through the courtesy f J. E. Baldwin, proprietor. # The boys will assemble at the Times office at 6:30 p. m. and will be accompanied to the rink by members of the circulation department. MINE MEETING OCT. 2 Wage Scale for 1923 Subject for Discussion by Conferees. By |United Press 1 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 22.--* Bituminous coal operators and rep sentatives of the United Mine W 0,.? ers will meet here Oct. 2to open n % fi' tiations for a 1923 wage scale. The meeting, which was provided i for in the Cleveland settlement, was called today by T. K. Maher, chairman of the recent conference here, in a telegram to union leader s anl oper alors.

Forecast Fair tonight and Saturday. Not much change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

The ■woman ran around some furniture and to the office, some twenty feet, and fell. Detective George Stewart, who was passing. rush°d in when he heard the shots and arrested Johnson. The only bullet found was one near the shoulder blade. Bleeding at the mouth, It is thought that one bullet hit her there. “.'lust be Crazy" When asked why he had done such a thing Johnson answered, "That he must have been crazy.” The Stevenson woman lived with her parents in the 3SOO block on ,E. Market St., near* Sherman Drive. Johnson, who formerly worked at the store, recently returned from a trip to California and was very anxious to return there. It is thought that Mrs. Stevenson’s refusal to go was on account of not wishing to leave her parents. Writes Her Letter Johnson wrote Mrs. Stevenson ai special delivery six-page love letter and mailed It. It was addressed to her at the store on W. Washington St. , The letter, which was opened by Coroner Paul F. Robinson .starts "Dear Sweetie.” Its contents wero not made public. The letter, which ■was found in Mrs. Stevenson's possession. lfad not been opened by her, Johnson is said to have a wife and two children in California. WITH OLD OUTFIT Sergeant Arch, Hoosier Hero, Ka cruittng For Field ArtillerySergeant Alex Arch of South Bend, who fired the first American gun shot in the World War, has been placed in charge of recruiting antlvlties for his old outfit, Battery C, 6th Field Artillery in Hew York City, according to a statement made today by Sergeant Slyvester, at the local recruiting station. Baby Mine [the only way pop caFt CHEW TOBACCO AT HOME IS BY PRETENDING HE IS 9MOKING A CIGARS • Haste Little three-year-old “worldly wise.’* who is very fond of using a tooth brush, happened in while his aunt was brushihg her teeth. In a hurried effort to ask for a brush and tooth paste same time, he said, “Aunt E, >3^.'wit 10 paste my tooth.”—L. R. Different age 6. upon her return ryie school the first day, waa #ing b-r mot'*r about recess. ■‘Mother,” she Maid, "don't you know tffe bigger ch®ren have a longer ‘abcess’ than vldo.''—Anon. Tell the editor what your baby or dona,. A post-card wiiKr^v