Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 178

DEAD WOMAN’S HUSBAND PREACHES SERMON TO 'SPEEDERS'

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ARTHUR MITCHELL

SII ED!CT SIìSPEiS 8 PATIOLMEN Shake-up Foilows Mayor’s Accusation That Officers Were Guiity of Neglect of Duty. LAD TELLS OF DRINKING Police Raid Two Houses ano Arrest Forty-Three on Vagrancy Charges. These eight patrohnen were suspended on charges of neglect ot‘ duty on direct orders of Mayor Shank today. Charles A. Brumfield, desse Giles, Richard T. Fogarty, Charles Clemmons Ray Harris. Jesse Hadley, Roy li. Kennedy and George T. Brown. Brumfield, Giles, Kogarty and Olemmons had been assigued to patrol thè fourth district, bounded on thè east by Illinois St-, south by Washington St.. west by West St. and north by New York St. Harris. Hadley. Kennedy and Brown had been assigned to thè TwentyNinth district. bounded on thè east by Illinois St.. south by Thlrtieth St.. west by Northwestern Ave., and north by thè city limits. Mayor Shank pointed out that Arnold Hoover, 15, of 3520 Salem St., alleged burglar, caught in thè attic of thè Fairbanks residence. Meridian and Thirtieth Sts., yesterday had confessed to buying ‘‘white mule" liquor in two houses on W. Vermont St. Boy Tolta Story The story told ny Hoover of his visite to these places during thè iast two vears was shocking evento police officers familiar with conditlons. Two houses were raided on orders front thè mayor. Those arresred in thè W. Vermont St houses registered as Asa Guerrant, .12, colored, 412 West Vermont St.; Clifford Reed. 36. colored, 240 N. California St.; Paul Graham. 43. colored. tic' W. Verniout St.; John Drake. 21. Shelbyville; Albert Kenton, IS. wnite. of Shelbyville and Hershel Fortnc’. 3-1, of 2011 Lambert Si. All '.vere hel.ì on vagrancy ■. hargis under Sa,ooo bor.ds except Fortner. who ìs thè prol>rietor of a poolroom and whose bond, was reduced by order of Judire Wilnieth to J 2.000. Arresi Women The women caught in thè raid registered as Labina Osborne, 42, colored, 1608 Yandes St.; Emma Hart, 25, colored, 408 W. Vermont St-, and Fannie Weagherstoon, 45. colored. 412 W. Vermont St. AH were charged with vagrancy and held under a $5.000 bond. The police made forty-three arrests on vagrancy charges vesterdav afternoon and last night. There were only nine women caught in this clean up. Five arresta on biind tiger charges were made last night. PATI ENT ESCAPES The police were notified today that Ccllins Barkdall. 36 had escaped from thè Central Hospital for thè Insane. He is five feet righi inches in height anu weighs 150 pourds. He has black hair and smooth face and wore a brown suit, blue cap, white sbirt and biack shoes.

THE WEATHER

Widespread rains in northern and middle-astern secrions are generai, and colder weather and show now coverà most of thè Mississippi valley. Freezing weather has advanceo almost to t'ne Ohio River and zero temperatures prevali in Montana, North Dakota and northern Minnesota. Snow coverà thè extreme northern Kocky Mountain region. 5 x degrees b#low zero was re por .ed at Bisinarck. X. D.. while Tamya was enjoyir.g a temperature of 64. HOURLY_ TEMPERATURE 6 a. m — ~ 30 Ili a. m 36 7 a. m 29 il a. m 35 * a. ni 28 12 (noon) 36 i a. m 29 1 p. m. 37

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‘‘l just wish you fellows eould be in my place for five minutes today. You would ne ver speed again.” Arthur Mitchell, 1427 Montcalm St., wjiose wife lay dead at his home, a victim of a reckless automobile driver, addressed a group of autoists held at city prison today on a charge of speeding. Mrs. Dolly Mitchell and Miss Josephine Herman were killed by a maehine which did not stop. Standing before thè arrested autoists, Mitcheil poured out his grief. “lmprisonment for from tento twentv vears would be light punishment for thè man who speeds,” he said. “1 feel I can hardlv stand my loss. My wife was only 23 vears old. lam 25. ”1 liave been driving an automobile for eight years and 1 have never had an accident. 1 know it is not necessary to speed. “Once before my wife was struek by a speeding automobile.”

POLICE HUNT FOR GIRL MISSING SINCE SUNDAY Ruth Dumi, 14, Leaves Home to Keep Engagement With Friends. The police are searching for Ruth Dunn, 14, daughter of Mrs. Effie Dunn. 2917 E. Eighteenth St. The girl has been missing since Sunday, 8 p. m. Mrs. Dunn told police her daughter had an engagement to meet two girl friends. When Miss Dunn left home she wore a brown knit ress. a dark tan coat. and a brown rat. She is five feet tali and she has Subbed blond hair. smdloéts STRESS ECHI .eaders and Candidates Discuss Plans at Session Here. Legislative problems were disi ussed at a meeting of thè Democratic State committee. successful candidates nd party leader-? at thè Hotel Denison today. The committee also had before it thè subject of payir.g off an indebtedness of $20,000 dating from thè 1920 election. In discussing legislative matters, party leaders were of thè opinion that economi should be 3tr sscd. It was indicated there wouid be a movement to brini about thè repeal of thè State tax law. Plans for organization of t minoriti’ of thè Legislature were considered. One of thè problems concernej finding a headquarters whcre party caucus eould be held. A drte for a meeting of members of thè assembli - also was under discussion.

RETITI ASKS BLUEIMREPUL Wabash Citizens Say Vice Booms During Week. By HOWARD McBRIDE Times Staff Corre synndent WABASH. Ind., Dee. 5.—A model town one day a week may make a "wild” town thè rest of thè week. This is thè opinion of a number of citizens, accordine to a petitlon now in circulation for thè repeal of thè Sunday blue laws put into force Sunday by thè city administration. The petition bears thè names of several prominent business men. They ask that shows and other forms of amusement be allowed, insistine that when a town is “dead” on Sunday, unlawful practices suoli as dice throwing, punchboards, betting on large scales and other games of chance loom during thè week. Police Chief Bolte asserts thè blue laws will remain intact until a vote of thè people decrees otherwise. SCHUMANN-HEINK STILL IS GRAVELY ILL By United Press NEW YORK, Dee. s.—Mine. Schu mann-Heink. thè noted opera star f who is dangerously ili with bronchialpneumonia at her home in Garden City, is by no means out of danger, according to a bulletin issued by Dr. David Dooman at 7 o'clock this morning. “Mme. Schumann Heink succeedeil in getting some sleep, however,” said thè doctor “and tomorrow will probably be thè tuming point.” 13 MEN FACE MURDER TRIAL AFTER YEAR PASSES By United Presa DIXOX, Ky„ Dee. 5. —More than a year aster thè crime was committed. thirteen men will face Circuit Judge Hunt here tomorrow charged with killing L. B. Wylie, manager of a coal mine at “Bebree, Ky., Sept. 28 1921. \ There was no clew to thè crime until Jan. 4. 1922, when Guy Warren, living in Evansville, notified Sheriff Withers he would come to Dixon and givo information. Arresta followed. NECK BROKEN; WILL LIVE 0 United Presa NEW YORK. Dee. s.—Simeon i Shulin. 16, will recover from j of a broken neck, surgeons announced I today.

BUYERS TESTIFY AGAINST MS IN'TRUST'CASE State Tries to Prove Wholesale Ice Cream Dealers Did Not Compete for Business. COLLUSION IS CHARGED Small Companies Squeezed Out, Princeton Man Declares on Witness Stand. Wholesale ice cream companies in Indianapolis during thè past eight years never attempted to wrest customers from one another, no matter how large thè business, rctail ice cream dealers testifled In Superior Court, Room 2, today. The evldence was offered by thè State in its attempi to prove thè existence of a ‘‘milk trust” in Indiana. The trial began yesterday. John A. Hook of (he Hook Drug Corhpany testifted that his company bought 3,000 gallons of ice cream each month from thè R. W. Furnas Ice Cream Company, havitig t rad ed with this company for twenty years. In thè past eight years only one company has solicited his business, he said. W. C. I.anca-ster. who runa a grocery at 1501 E. Nlneteenth St., testlfled that he was refuserò iee cream by Ballard and Jessup & Antrim companies ‘‘beeause he sold it too cheap, they said.” Prices l'niforni The sanie price per gallo prevailed, regardless nf seasons, Mr. Hook told Judge Linn P Hay. who is trying thè case wlthout a jury. The State' evldence was handled by U. S. Lesh, attorney generai, and William P. Evans. prosecuting attorney for Marion County. That prices to he paid for cream from farmers in Uonnersville. Columbus. Fortville, Princeton. Vinrennes end La Grange were regulated by thè miik companies, witnesses for thè State said. Herbert B. Ilornaday of Princeton, Ind., testifled that he "was flnally squeezed out" of thè creamery busi ness by defendant companies located at Vincennes. thè Vincennos Milk and lee Cream Company and thè Lily Ice Cream Company. Rates Are I.ow The latter companies paid 73 cetits a pound for hutter fat at Princeton when he paid 53, thè market price, Hornaday said.

Rubber Collars Become Extinct Is that once famous rubber collar a thing of thè past? Indianapolis merchants believe it is gone for good. They assert thè small number of buyers, partlcularly polieemen and Street car men, has fallen so low that they refuse to order more stock. One merchant says that out of a four-dozen stock purchase two years ago, he stili haa sixteen —all large sizes. 5,000 MINERS ON STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA FIELD Hold I p Ratiflcation of Disamianient Treaty for This Reason. By United presi WILKESBARRE, Pa.. Dee. 5. Miners employed at all thè collieries of thè Hudson Coal Company in thè Plymouth and Larksvliie distriets, near here, went on strike today in sympathy with a small strike whlch was ealled at thè Boston colliery laet Saturday.^ More than Ave thousand men and boys are affected. TWO LOCAL PRISONERS ARE GIVEN CLEMENCY Only two Indianapolis persona are listed among persona given clemency by thè S*ate board of pardons at their Novembe. 1 meeting. They art' Dewey Wiley, given a remission of fine for violation of thè liquor law‘l, and Mable Lancaster, released to jiay a fine of S2OO for viola tion of thè liquor law.

INDIANAPOLIIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 5, 1922

Mitchell’s audience consisted of a number of men and one woman. Tliey were deeply afi'ected. Mitchell was asked to go to thè city prison and talk to thè prisoners by Mayor Shank, who is personal ly directing a drive on speeders. The mayor expressed thè opinion that thè talk and thè appearance of Mitchell do more to impresa on thè minds of motorists thè tragedy of speed and reckless driving than all thè fines that eould be assessed. Thè deaths of Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Herman bring thè toial of automobile fatalities in Indianapolis for thè year up to fifty-nine. Judge Wilmeth of thè city court in a statement declared he is eooperating with thè police in their crusade against speeders. The* judge warned motorists that they must blow their horns at dangerous erossings. He declared there is too mueh of a tendency to disregard warning signals. Bright lights also are responsible for many accidents, thè judge pointed out.

AUTOISTS HAULED IN POLICE PATROLS

CLARA PHILLIPS MAKES HER ESCARE FROM JAIL

Bars in Celi Window Sawed —Police Suspect Outside Aid.

By l'nited Prete LOS ANGELES, Cai., Dee. 5. —Police of thè Pacific coast bayed today on thè trail of Mrs. Clara Phillips, who escaped from thè Los Angeles jail while ìmdar sentence for slavinp Mrs. Alberta Meadows. Mrs. Phillips was awaiting transfer to thè San Quentin prison to begin a terni of from ten years to fife, when by a display of daring which tannerò officiata, she offected her escape. l’os-'es were organized throughout : southern California to take up thè ! seareh for thè fieelrig woman. Immigration and customs officials were instructed to watch for thè fugltive at thè border, as It was believed she would attempt to reaeh Mexico. Clew Ernta Abruptly The only clews of thè escane pie’ ed up so far ended just outside of thè ja.rò walls. Three bara had been sawed from thè window in her celi. The cutting ! had apparently been dono by some ! one on thè outside of thè building. A ladder leanlng against thè wall gave silent testimony as to how thè murderess stopperò from prison. An auto with friends was waiting in thè alley helnw and just as soon i as thè eseape was earried out thè dash ! to Mexico was started, according to j thè theory of thè eseape. The exact j timo of her deliverance from prison ; was not determinerò. Mrs. Phillips w’fts in jher celi at 2 | a. m. today when Mrs. L. D. Flsher, ; night matron, made her usuai tour j of lnspection, thè matron Insisterò. The window of thè celi had been j decorated by a pretty curtain, which served to conceal thè sawed bars, It ' was learned The bolo in thè bars was seareely largo enough to permit her to squeeze through and thè Jagged edges of thè sawed bars caught threads from her clothing. Find Bare, Footprints Prints of a woman’s bare feet were sound under thè window, learòing to thè point where thè ladder had been placed. "She's pone to Mexico,” wns thè word which went around town immediately thè news of her eseape became known. . Officials telephoned all Mexican bor-

GAS CO. REPRESENTATIVE ARGUES FOR $1.25 RATE Supporta Rrief in Caso Before Master in Chancery. Arguments in support of brief submitted in thè gas rate case were made before William P. Kappes, master in chancery, today. Accordlng to H. H. Hornbrook, at tomey for thè Citizens Gas Company, a rate of between $1.20 and $1.25 a thousand feet will be necessary to en able thè company to eam 7 per cent. The sult was filed by thè company to prevent thè public Service comm'seion from interfering with an increa; e in rates from 90 cents to $1.25. BOY LEAVES HOME Charles Gill of Connersville. Ind., to day notified thè Indianapolis police that his stepson, Edward Cooper, 15, left home yesterday. The boy is Ave feet six inches tali and weighs 110 pounds He wore a gray mixed suit, short trousers, blue shirt and brown c&p.

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MRS. CLARA PHILLIPS

der polnts In California and Arizona to watch for her. Guarda were piacerò on every troll leading from thè dry deserta of Southern California iato thè wastes of northern Mexico, and on thè ioads which cross from lite garden spots around San Diego and thè Imperiai valley. Automobiles scoured thè roada. Aid of all peace officers in Southern California was immediately enlisted. It was pointed out that Mrs. Rhillips herself probably was acquamted With northern Mexico and vierhaps with thè habits of ita people, naving lived in Texas and other horder States. She harò some knowledge of Spanish. The eseape of Mrs. Phillips, lika thè crime of which she was convicted, was without parallel in criminal annata of California. She beat Mrs. Meadows, who had been her friend, to death with a hammer when she had becorne jealous of thè friendship between Phillips and thè attrattive young widow.

PHANTOM WOLF IS BLAMED ANYWA Y

THE phantom wolf which has been defying police and puzzling thè neighborhood of Twenty-Fifth St. and Paris Ave. for more than a month, stili is making midnight raids on chicken coops and talclng viands from back porches. Some folk do not believe thè phantom exlsts. “It’s Just talk,” they say. The fact remains. however, that two weeks ago a fat duck. in a amali coop on thè back porch of 427 W. Twenty-Sixth St., waiting to grow Anc~ and fatter for Thanksgiving disappeared. A frantic squawk growing fainter and fainter in thè distance was

The court fixed a regular schedule of bonds to be assessed as a permanent praetiee of thè court, but be said he would not interfere with liigher bonds if thè police Ihought thetn advisable in special cases. The court fixed a bond of SIOO for autoists alleged to bave been driving twenty-nine miles an hour or less, SSOO for those traveling thirty to thirty-four miles an hour and SI,OOO for those traveling more than thirty-five miles an hour. Only one prisoner had been released on a $5,000 bond up to this afternoon. Others sat behind thè bars and discussed thè situatimi, vowing they would never speed again. Novel -exeuses were given by some of thè alleged speeders for being in a hurry. One man said he was out of a job and that he was in a hurry to find another. A second said he had an appointment to meet his employer and he was late. A third insisted that thè speedometer on a police automobile was “off” ten miles.

| "ICs like her" Sheriff Treager said, I commenting on thè eseape. Authoritles had received wamings jthat Mrs. Phillips would eseape. i Clara left most of her effeets be- ; hind, taking with her a black dress ! and a tarlerò blue frock which she used S when working. Besldes many articles of apparel, she left some small change, a pitture of Armour Phillips, her husband, and her suit case. A ròeputy sheriff reporter! he no--1 tirerò an automobile with curtains | down near thè Jail about 1 a. m but |he eould not give a complete dej scrlption of lt. Seareh was instltuted for Armour I Phillips and Harry Karst who had both recently visiterò Mrs. Phillips at thè jail. Karst was named, at thè trial, as thè man with whom Phillips had accuserò his wife of staying over night at Camp Baldy in thè quarrel which Mrs. Phillips said led to her jealousy of Mrs. Meadows.

thè only adleu. The phantom wolf was blamed. A rald on thè chicken coop of Joseph Craig, 225 Paris Ave., which was thwarted, Is proof positive of thè existence of thè phantom, accordisi^ 1 to thè believers. Some children in thè vicinity are being kept In aster dusk. E. M. Johns, a grocer at Twenty - Fifth and Shriver, although expressing conAdence in thè story of thè wolf, said "I’m scared of a lot of other things more than this wolf.” Sonte neìghbors said thè wolf was a present to a woman from her husband who traveled in Texas. The family has tnoved.

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Speeders Object of New Crusade Inaugurateci by Mayor and Police Following Tragedy in Which Women Are Victims. New intensive war was declared on speeders in Indianapolis today. liere are developraents of thè past twenty-four hours; Mrs. Dolly Mitchell, 23, of 1427 Montcalm St., and Miss Josephine Herman. 26, of 18 Troy Ave., were knocked down bv one automobile and then struck and killed almost instantly by another. Mayor Shank appeared at police headquarters this morning, ordered all speeders arrested, ordered bonds fixed at $5,000, and ordered that speeders be taken to headquarters in patrol wagons. Nuraerous drivers were arrested by police squads on duty in automobiles and on motorcycles. Arthur Miichell, lrusband of Mrs. Mitchell, went to thè city prison and addressed a group of alleged speeders, declaring “a sentence of tento twenty years would he light punishment for speeding.”

All during thè day thè automobile and motorcycle squads scoured thè city, calling a patrol wagon each timo an arrest was made. Although Judge Wilmeth of thè city court announced as thè policy of thè court thè tìxing of lower bonds than those ordered by tthte tnayor, thè prisoners continuar! to be held under $5, n OO bonds. Among those arrested was one woman. The too was forced to ride in a patrftl. “Worst Criminal” “The speeder is thè worst criminal we bave.” said Mayor Shank. ' More persona bave been murdered in Indianapolis by speeders than by burglars. The law should make speeding a felony instead of a misdemeanor. There bave been llfty-nine fatalities this year.” Aecording to witnesses thè two women who were killed last night were waiting for a Street car at Pine and Washington Sts. Both were eniployes of thè National Bakery Company. They were struck by a Ford coupé golng west at a high rate of speed and were run over by a second Ford coupé which was following thè Arst machine. The women were carried into thè Homo restaurant, 902 E.' Washington St. Miss Herman was dead. Mrs. Mitcheli died less than Ave minutes later. Witnesses said that thè two automobiies stopped about one-half block west of Pine St. The driver of thè car which ran over thè women walked back to thè scene of thè accident, but aster stopping only a moment walked back to his car and drove away, police say. The driver of thè automobile which Arst struck thè women did not leave his car. according to witnesses. Cails Four Policemen Four of thè motorcycle policemen who appeared for morning roll cali were ordered into thè offlce of thè ehief of police, where Mayor Shank was waiting. The policemen were Fletcher. Brooks, Bushong and Smith. The mayor asked thè men their names and when R. E. Fletcher told his name he was asked if he was thè man who on Monday night shot a prowler whom he had disarmed and who was attemptlng to escape. When he answered “yes,” thè mayor said: “I approdate what you bave dono. You will be promoted to detective sergeant today.” Then he asked each man how many arrests of speeders he had made during thè month. Brooks said Afteen. Bushong said six. The latter pointed out, however, that he has been working in thè "tom cat watch,” 11 p. m. to 7 a. m. The men were told that they should make more arrests. ARREST FRANCIS 7 "WIFE Dura Francis, wife of Frank Francis, thè ‘confessing burglar," and a defendant in thè cases now pending In Federai Court agalnst Herbert Hartman, has heen arrested in Florida, aecording to word received today by Homer Elliott, United States district attorney. She will be brought to Indianapolis, he said. She was a star witness for thè State in thè case agalnst Hartman in Criminal Court last aprlng. I

Forecast Fair and colder tonigKT and Wednesday; Lowest temperature about 20 degrees.

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MIOPE PU sbowUdwn Will Not Attempt Check-off ot Strike Benefit, Penna Avers. By l'nited l'rtsu TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Dee. 5. Mine operators of thè Indiana association will not attempt thè “checkoff" of thè $4 strike benefit assessment levied by thè l'nited Mine Workers of America. District 11, it was authoritatively stateri today. The statement marie by Phil H. Penna, secretary of thè operators, following thè Monday conferer.ee, w s taken to rnean that thè operators vili force a showdown on thè threat of John Hessler, district president of thè miners. to cali a strike unless thè check-off request was compilerò with. CITY AUTOMOBILES TO BE PROPERLY LASELED Mayor’s Threat to Wio Irò Crowbar Averterò by Order. The officiai "crowbar” will not have to be unsheatlied by Mayor Shank to get city automobiles marked with numbors and :he word “Indianapolis.” He said he would get them so marked if he had to go to thè garage with a wrecking implement. The board of public works saved thè mayor thè eqort with an order to Superintendent Harry B. Newby of thè municipal garage that no ears should be sent out until thè mayor’s command is obeyed.

Cheers By l'nited Xetrs NEW YORK, Dee. s.—Mayor John F. Hyland, nearly run down by a Aivver, which grazed his coattails as he was about to cross a Street, retained his oAlcial dignitv. I Catching up with thè chauffeur and getting his name and license number, Ilylan said: “It is suoh drivers as you. reckless of human lise on thè streets. that make thè deaths by vehicular accidents a blot on thè good name of thè city. You and men like you are responsihle for hundreds of lives sacriftced to vour selfìshness and indifference.” Scores cheered thè oration.