Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 196

A. W. BUILER GUITS AFTER MANYYEARS Secretary of State Charities Board Resigns Because of Failing Health. WAS MEMBER SINCE 1897 Known as Expert on Care of Unfortunates—Assistant Is Named Successor. Amos W. Butler, secretary of thè board of State charities for thè past twenty-five years. resigned todav. His resignation was accepted at a meeting of thè board, The resignation, Butler stated, was presented at a previous meeting: but was not acted upon. Xeed of a long rest. prescribed by his phyfddan some months agro was given as his reason for resigning. John A. Brown w;is named acting secretare to All thè vacanoy. Brown entered thè Services of thè hoard in August of 1910, as an agent of thè children’s department. He later becero® State agent and three years ngo was mane inspector of field Service In which position he served as an assistant to Butler. Butler became secretary of thè board in 1897, by appointment from Goveroor James A. Mount. He served In office under six successive Governerà. Butler In speaking of his j esignation pointed to this fact as an indicatlon that thè board had b.*n 1 ept clean of politicai Influenco and suasion throughout his tenure of office. Sncceeded Birknell Butler succeeded Ernest Bicknell. who has recently served as thè European director of thè American Ked Crosa. Butìeris letter of resi gnatico to thè board set forth that his years of Service had been a source of greci sàtls- 1 factlon to hlm and that he had ap preclated thè opportunità- of contlnuouaiy servlng thè unfortunates of thè States In which he live. Govemor McCray, ex-officio member of thè board, in accepting thè reslgnation, expressed appreciation of But ler’s years of servdce and said he had hoped Butler might be able to con tlnue in Service as long as he was Govemor. Other members of thè board offered similar expressions. The resignation becomes effective Sunday, Dee. 31. aster which tlme Brown will conduct thè affairs of thè board. XationaQy Known Butler ls natlonally known as an authority on criminology and sociology. His Services as a speaker on these subjeets ha ve been In demand at prison conference and other sin-.-1 liar gatherlngs. Durlng his years as secretary of tha board of State charities Butler has seen thè penai System of Indiana and of other States grò tv from a elipshod System of punishment to thè present practices of reformation and reconstruction of criminals. Butler also has been very active in insisting on proper care for thè insane, thè feeble minded and other unfortunates. He has had much to do with thè improvement of thè institutions maintained by thè State for this purpose. He has tumed most of his efforts recently toward obtaining ampie provision for thè feeble minded. In thls he has met thè opposltion of legislators and executive who oppose spending money for such purposes.

CHICAGO HOMES LOOTED OF $25,000 IN JEWELRY Burglars Chloroform Members of One Family—Another House (bikini. Bu Uniteti Preti CHICAGO, Dee. 26. —Gema valued at $20,000 were stolsn from thè home of Henry Shaif, piano dealer, aster thè burglars had chloroformed several members of thè famiiy. Christmas bandita also raided thè house of Alfred Flovrer, bank president, and Mrs. Edward J. Dreis and obtained more than $5,000 In cash and jewelry. THE WEATHER A storni developed Sunday over western Canada and has moved eastward to thè St. Lawrence valley, causine light rains over thè lake regions. A storno center has also developed over southeastern Kansas, causing rains over thè midle plains States last night. CJcrudy weather prevaiìs over thè Mississippi and ' ' io vallevs and in thè western gu!f cion over thè Mississippi and Olii -allevs and in thè western gulf regie this morn- • g, and rain has ©ecurred on thè fH Pacific slope. nperatures are matenally at>ove ..Al for thè season all over thè northern States and in th centrai valleys, and no coki weather Is repcrted in any section. The maximum temperature this moming was 62 degi-ees at San Antonio. while thè minimum was 22 at St. Paul. HOI7RLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 44 10 a. m 51 7 a. m 44 11 a. m 52 I a. m 45 12 Cnoon) 56 * a. 5u.... té l . ca 56

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Child’s Shoe Is Worn by This Cinderella Miss Jeannette Morille was christened thè Cinderella of Boston recently when she established her right to thè title by provlng that a ihild’s shoe, 12’ì, was needed to fit her petite foot. fiIGET IiTCKES SLIFPERGONTEST Hundreds Try for $25 Prize Offered by Times. “Ooooh, you got a chob on your hands; you gotto squeezn ’em.” Miss Dora Veig, postage-sized prima donna of Singcr's Mldgets, chirpeil as she watched one of thè contestants in thè Times Cinderella Contest trying on her slipper. Crowds gathered early today at Marott’s Shoe Shop on Washington St., where Miss Veig met thè aspiranta for Cinderella honors. Cottpons contlnued to pour in this morning ani thè contest edltor's desk was loaded. The fairy godmother was no where in sight. but many of thè fair sex belleved that she would appear at thè last minute, or else slip thè magic shoe horn into their hands. Miss Veig and a Times representative wlll go over all tho coupons entered in thè contest and thè girl or woman with thè smallest. foot ni vasti rements will recelve thè $25 offered by thè Times and a box for an evening performance of thè Singer's Mldgets at thè Palane Theater. Severa! hundred girls and women entered thè contest. To accommodate thè many who desired to see if they were Cinderellas, thè Marott shoe store management consented to bave tlie fìttlngs there. The Cinderella winner will he nnnounced In Wednesday’ Times if thè judges finish their task hy then.

STATE BOARD MAY REVISE CURRICULI Will Consider Changes in State High School Courses. Rovision of thè present high school curriculum will be thè chief mattar for considemtion by thè State board of education at iis meeting at thè Statehouse, Jan. 3 and 4, Benjamin J. Burris, superintendent of public instruction, announced today. The board, Burris says, has been working for months on a revision of thè high school course of thè State and members are corniti? prepared to oifer suggestions for changes v.hich they believe necessary. The changes which thè members bave had in mind, Murris stated, are in line with sugestions made in thè school survey report recently given to thè Governor. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION ENDS IN HOSPITAL Colored .Man S uff or* From Many Cut*. Douglas Austin, 27, colored, 620 B. Court St., was in thè city hospital today with cuts on thè neck. back and log. reeeived during a Christmas celebration at thè Blackstone case on Indiana Ave. Henry dover, 35, col ored, 641 N. West St.. is charged with assault and battery. Me was caugbt aster a pursuit by thè polire. TAFT IS RECOVERING WASHINGTON, Dee. 26—Chief Justice Taft continues to make satisfactorv recovery from his reeertt operation and may he able to appear on th* ben eh next week.

MAYOR AND PROSECUTOR CLASH

Shank Gives Police “If a policeman finds my y;vn brother or Bill Armitage himself violating thè law and doesn’t arrest him he’U lose his job,” Mayor Shank declared today. “I want thè police department to get away from this stuff of thinking they’ve gotto consult sotnebody higlier up before tliev make an arrest because somebody has got protection. ” William 11. Armitage is thè politicai marshal of thè Shank forces and chairman of thè executive committee of thè Republican county organization. The mayor ordered thè following resolution, adopted hy thè board òf public safety, read at a generai roll cali of thè police department at, 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon: “ Any police offioer who willingly fails to make an arrest when he knows of any one committing a crime, particularly bootlegging or gambling, will bave charges preferred against him, be brought before thè board of public safety and discharged.” The mayor said later : ‘ I want Prosecutor Evans to understand that thè police department and thè mayor are not eonnected in any way with gamhlers and bootleggers.” Ile also instructed thè board of safety to write a letier to Evans bespeaking eooperation as follows: “If you show thè sanie disposition to clean up Indiarapolis as we do toward you by furnishing men for investigatimi

Bootleggers Dry in Morgue

Ttvo Men \N Ik> Sold Hooch Forced lo I-ook at Poison Vietili). By United Presi SHELBY, Ohio, Dee. 2G. —Two bootleggers sobbed like broken-hearted children as they viewed thè. corpse of Ralph Longley, "poison hooch" victim. at thè morgue here today. They confessed to making and selling thè moonshine whisky which brought a Christmas eve’s revelry to a tragic climax, killing Longley and at least temporarily blindlng two others INDIANA OFFICIAL TO PAY OFF ILLINOIS MEN t liarges in Personnd Cause Transfer of Money. . Pay rolls for employes of thè . Federai prohibition department in | Illinois will he bandi ed temporarily, by Bert C. Morgan, Federai pròhibition director for Indiana. Word to this effect was received hy Director Morgan from Davis H. Blair, com missioner of internai revenue, today. Changes In thè personnel of thè llltois department ha ve been announced and all pay rolls will be handed from Indianapolis until these changes ha ve been completed. WATER COMPANY FILES VALUATION EVIDENCE l>eclres Property Xow as Worth $20,385,165. Attorneys for thè Indianapolis WatPr Company flled briefs with thè puhlic sertóce commission today, setting forth thè company's evidence intro duced in thè hearing on thè petition for a valuation of thè utility property which was lield last week. The brief sets forth a present golng valuation of thè company of $20,385,165, aster all depreciation has been deductod. Earl Carter, chlef englneer of thè public Service commission, in an appraisal introduced at thè hearing, estahlished a ph.vsical value of $13,000,000, which does not take into considerano nworking capitai, surplus, rights or franchisee. SPILLED BOOZE WAS CHRISTMAS PRESENT (. apitol Wasn't Rool legger, Curtis Says. | By United Press WASHINGTON. Dee. 26.—The negro waiter in thè Senato restaurant who last week dropped a bottle of I>ooz9 on thè floor of thè United States Capitol building was not attemptlng to bootleg. Senator Curtis, Kansas Republican, Senato whip, said todaq. The negro had a bottle of homo i made liquor which was given him 1 for his- Christmas celebratlon, it was | said. POLICE SEEK CLEW TO BAFFLING MURDER ; Couplet Fired on By Cnknown Assailane While Leaving Dance. By United Press DEER TRAIL. Colo., Dee. 26. Pollce today sought to link a mvsterious telephone cali and an automobile in thè baffllng murder of Howard Hamilton, 24, of Denver, and thè serious woundlng of Miss Fearl Coeur, 18, also of Denver. The two were fired upon Saturday night by an unknown assaliant as they left a dance hall bere. Shortly before thè attack Miss Couer. polire say, called a garage to va toh for a certa in automobile. POSTER COMPANY FORMS The Calumet Poster Advertising j Company of Gary, capitalized at $50,000. flled articles of incorporation with thè secretary of State today. The incorporators are Walter Stanley of Gary, L. W. Benson and J. E. Pitch of Chicago The company will absorb thè present going buaineas.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 26, 1922

"Driest" Christmas < osts Livwt of si\ New \ ortv Itevelers. By I"nited Pres NEW YORK, Dee. 26.—Slx persona are dead and t-.velve are known to be in hospitals suffering from "poison hooch." following New York's "driest Chrlstmaa. One of thè dead is a woman. She was sound uneonsclous in thè Street. Contrastlng to thè alcoliche toll. w-ns a polire statement dee lari ng that thè brlght llght distrlct was a Sa hara on Christmas night, not a ,-ingle intoxlcated person being brought Into west side police court. Most of thè drlnklng that formerly formed a port of thè revelry In cafes and caharets was done In homes. Outside of New York City, thè United Sta e* was markedly free of deaths from illlclt alcohol this year. Two loat their Uvea through drinklng bootleg liquor In southern Ohio, one dled in Oklahoma and one in Boston. where twentv seven vlctlms are reporter! in a serious condltion. Xew York's toll of death from ."11110mobile and Christmas tire accidents was four killed In thè streets, and four dying of burns. Deaths from automobile aeelder.ts were reported from Youngstown, Ohio; Portland, Pittaljureh, Philadelphia (4): Detroit, St. 1’ ul and poin tu In Oklahoma. Half a dozen persona were reported killecì In gun flghts.

SHANK ORDERS TIILLIGHTM Police to Arrest Drivers Without llluminated Plates. When thè board of safety was called upon today for information ;ts to what kind of a tail llght would meet thè roquirements of thè State law requlring a light which Uluminates 11censes so they may be read at a distance of 100 feet Mayor Shank said: “We’re going to start war on these fellows who don’t comply with this luw T right away. And thè first ones we are going to get are thè ones whose tali lights are not eonnected with thè license platea." The mayor ordered arrests made mmediately but instructed Traffic "apt. Michael J. Glenn to "use judg.nent” in niaking thè arrests and to pive motorista a chance to comply with thè law. "Guess we’ll make a lot of arrests and see tvhat thè judge wlll do with these fellows,” thè mayor said. 4 There ought to be an expert around tho police station to judge whether a license piate could be read at 100 feet.” “I’m going to stop this thing of having a. license piate so mitddy that thè number cannot be read. too. T thtnk there's a lot of peoplo who want to keep their license plates in such a condltion that you can’t read thè figure,” Shank said. FIGHTS RATE INCREASE The city of Montpelier today flled objections to proposed telephone rate increases asked by thè Indiana Bell Telephone Company in a recent pe tition submitted to thè public seiwice commission.

Daughter of Fairbanks Reoccupies Homestead

THE Fairbanks mansion at 'fhirtieth and Meridian St.s., home of thè late Charles Warren Fairbanks. former Vice President, was occupied again today. It had been vacant since 1920. Miss Adelaide Fairbanks, a daughter, moved into thè family

‘Go Get’EnT Order we feel that we can handle most cases coming under our jurisdiction.” The mayor said: “The police department wants tips on law violations before they are submitted to thè grand jury. We can save thè county thè trouble of prosecutions if they’ll let us make them.” Prosecutor Evans’ eomment was: “The police Lati months in which to make arrests while games were running.”

Here’sAn Object Lesson That All Speeders Should Keep in Mind

|. F % || LEO KLAUSNER

Here’s what speeding does. 1,00 Klausner, 14, of 1001 S. Illinois Si., will Tit-vi r play basketball any more. A speeding truck struck lnm. causine ifijunes which necessitateti amputation of his right leg below thè knoe. He was a star forward on thè Boys’ Club live, and a pai to all his inntes. Barreil from thè physìcal activities so dear to him Leo tried to laugh his tronfile. a.vay and make himself believe he was thè same active youth.

AGRICULTURALEXPORTS CONTINUE TO CLIMB Total Vaine* Will Fall Short of 1921, However, it is Indirated. By United l'rixn WASHINGTON, Dee. 26.—Export. of agricultural produots continued to climb durlng thè monti) of November, thè Department of Commerce reported fiere.' Total values for thè year, however, wlll fall short of thè export total for 1921, it was indieated. For thè eleva nmonths period thè value was placed at .W84.t41,530 compri red with $728,441,358 for thè corresponding period last year. FIRE ALARM 3POILS KU-KLUX CEREMONY Alann Tumed in When Ulazìng Cross Is Setm—Klanstncn Flee. By United l'remi FT. WAYNE, Ind., Dee. 26.—A KuKlux Klan ceremony canto to a hasty conclusion heni about mldnight last night. Some one a few blocks away saw flames leaplng Into thè air and turned in a tire alami. When thè tire department and police arrivod a huge wooden cross was sound hlazing merrily. The Klansmen had tled. IRISH PEACE PROPOSED Bjj l uiU d Press DUBLIN, Dee. 26.—A meeting of Sinn clubs here today passed a resolution urging convocation of a national Sinn Fein congress to arrange peaco with thè Free State.

home Christmas day. She had been residing at 1421 Central Ave. She said she would make her permanent residence In thè mansion. The Fairbanks property was on thè market for many months. Servants were busy tho week before Christmas preparjng thè house for reoccu patio n. |

Theodore Edwards, 912 S. Delaware St. driver of thè truck that hit thè boy. was fined SIOO and eosts for speeding and $1 and costs for assault and battery. A sixtyvlay sentence on thè State Farm also was iniposed. Judge Delbert O. Wllmeth, in city court on thè day of thè trial, used thè crippled boy as a striking xHinple of thè result of speed and guve a lecture to thè jiutomoblle driver that were in thè courtroom.

JIILINC BE PERSO! RAPPED Coroner, Investigating Death of Prisoner, Criticises System. “Something has gotto be done about this insanity proposition at thè comity jail,” said Coroner Paul F. Robinson today when he reeeived thè post mortem report of a deputy coroner who investigateti thè death of Joseph Given, colored, 40, in thè jail. Given was arrested Dee. 5, charged with vagrancy and insanity when polioo ofYicers were called to 557 E. Court St., whero he had a short tinte before rented a room. Aster watching his action it was decided by Patrolntan Alfred Schulz he should be taketi care off. Aster two weeks search for relatives Schulz was instructed by Dr. Arthur M. Mendenliall, poi ice surgeon to filo proceedings in a justice of peace court. When thè papera were delivered at thè jail Dee. 20, Schulz was told Given was sound dead that rnornlng when thè sheriff mode thè first rounds. A post mortem by Deputy Coroner Dr. C. A. Toles showed death was caused by beating thè head against thè bare and si ©or until a frac ture of thè skull was effected. “I bave contlnually told thè comntissioners that this thing of leaving those peeple in thè jail weeks at a Urne was suro to result in numerous sulcides and this ia |Jte second exampie in six months, ” sàt Robinon. WILL START NURSERY The Maple Road Horticultural Gardens, Incorporated. has heen formed by L. C. Nicholson. 227 E. Fall Creek Blvd., E. F. Benson, 2210 Park Avet; J. H. Nicolas, 625 E. Twenty-Fifth St., and S. R. Nlcholson, 2860 Washington Blvd., it was announced today. The company will engagé in a generai nursery business .*r>d will raise ani sell pianta of all descrlpttons.

Entered a Second-class "Matter at Postofflce, Indianapolis. Publlshed Daily Except Sunday.

City Executive Says Evans Takes Ad vantale of Police Department—Assigns Detective to Watch Investig-ations. TWENTY OFFICERS SHIFTED BY BOARD Safety Department Is Asked to Change Ten Policewomen Assigned to Juvenile Court—lnefficiency Alleged. Asserting that i rosecutor Evans has been having gamblers indicted before thè police department could make arrests in an effon to make thè police look bad, Vayor Shank today asked thè Board of 1 üblic Satetv to assign Detevtiee Sergeant Emmett Englebright as an investigator in thè prosecutor’s office. Englebright would work with Claude Worley, police captain, who has been an investigator for thè prosecutor for several years. eral years.

At thè sanie time thè mayor ori dered thè board of safety to start filing charges of ineffieiency against ten policewomen assigned to Juvenile Court, “as soon as possible.” "Doing Xobody Good” "Those women aren’t doing anybody any good over there and thè county is getting their Services while thè city pays for it." The mayor did not say what would become of thè thirteen other policewomen left at headquarters. The board ordered thè Englebright change, which was part of a shake-up involving twenty policemen. The others will be shifted Jan. 1. Englebright will go to thè prosecutori office Wednesday morning, thè mayor said. Englebright and Worley will he required to make triplicate reports of their investigations. one to go to Evans and thè others to thè chlef of police and thè supervisor of detectives. Says It Is Funny The prosecutor greeted thè mayor’s announcement with much merriment and some heat. "If that man they said they were going to send over here is coming to fimi out what we are doing he can just report right back to thè city hall." said Evans. "Why. that is about thè funniest statement 1 ever heard. I thought at first he was merely sending an asslstant over for Worley to help us clean up. and we could use another good man. at that.” "I bave nothlng against Mayor Shank. except that his administration ls pretty rotten.” said thè prosecutor. "Did they bring up thè names of O'Brien and Bandy at their meeting this morning." asked Evans. O'Brien and Bandy were thè two patrolmen who testified against Thomas B. Dillon in his trial for runnlng a gambling house. Bandy said they "were afraid to go around there much because they thought Dillon was a gambler and had politicai influente." They were not mentioned at thè board meeting. The mayor said thè other changes were being made for thè "good of thè sei-vice.” Men were reduced because they havo not been "liittìng thè ball," he said. Other Sliifts Announced The other shifts were announced as follows: Reductions —Sergt. Charles J. Russell to tra.ffiom.an: Sergt. Samuel Gillispie to trafficman: Sergt. Eugene Eldridge to patrolman: Turnkey Henry W. Sandinan to patrolman. Promotions —Detective Sergt. Herbert R. Fletcher to captain; Patrolman William O. Fields to sergeant; Motor Policeman Melvin E. Wilkerson to sergeant; Trafficman John P. Scdaffner to detective sergeant; Trafficman Othello D. Thomas to detective ser- ; geant; Trafficman Fred Purvis to detective sergeant; Motor Policeman Harry Kernodle to detective sergeant; Patrolman Leroy C. Bartlett to motor policeman; Patrolman Fred Oakley to motor policeman and Detective Sergt. Charles Sumner to lieutenant. Retirement —Patrolman John Helm. I Transfer —Detective Sorgeant John | Volderauer to fiumane department. j Detective Benjamin Trimpe to humane j department. Detective Sergeant Jojseph J. Klaiber to uniform division and desk sergeant. Hanford Burk to thè turnkey’s office. Mayor Raps Evans “Evans ls doing this to cause discredit to thè police department and I’m here to say we don’t need Evans’ assistance to get these gamblers,” continued thè mayor. “Sergeant Russel is one of thè best . men in thè department, but here lately ! he has been laying down on thè job I and I think thè corner will help him,” ! *he mayor answered when asked con- | cerning Russell’s reduction. “There's a ‘joint’ on W. Market St. that he has been overlooking, and when he is (t'onlinued **i Page 2) TAX BOARD TO CONSIDF.R JOHNSON COUNTY ROAD Stato Commissioners Set Dates for Hearing. Members of thè State board of tax l commissioners will go to Columbus, ! Dee. 29, to conduct thè third hearing on a petition for a bond issue of SIS,000 for thè construction of thè Barnes Road in Pleasant Township. On Jan. 3 thè board will hold a hear- ; ing on a bond issue of $27.500 for thè i construction of thè Glen Duckwall : Road in Grant County. The hearing will be held in thè Courthouse at Marion. The board will go to Ft. Wayne on Jan. 5 to decide a bond of $20.000 sought for e*tenslon *of a adbool building in Ailn County.

Forecaist UNSETTLED weather tonight and Wednesday. Probably rain and eolder Wednesday afternoon or night.

TWO CENTS

MOBSKCT DENIiS KLAII KILLED MEN Farmer Forced to Play ‘Water Boy' ls State's Witr ;ss at Mer Rouge. By United Preti MER ROUGE. La.. Dee. 26. A man, forced to play “water boy” for thè band of hooded men. while they carried on their work of flogging and murdering V att Daniels and Thomas Richard.? last August, will he thè State's ehief witness officials revealed today. Evidence of Berry W. Wheatston, a farmer, forced to accompany thè masked mob, led to thè arrest of his kinsman, T. F. Bumett, in connection with thè murders, ano furnished information on which twenty others probably will he accused. Wheaton. carrying water from a near hy farm for thè thirsty mob. aster being terròrized, sat on a log and made mental notes of thè members as masks were lifted for a drink from thè bucket. Aster relating his experiences to de>partment of justice agents and State authorities Wheatston was spirited away to protect him from possible vengeance. Burnett, confined in thè jail at Baatrop following Wheatston’s aocount of thè terrorista’ activities and thè findlng of thè bodies of Daniels and JUchards in La Fourche. announced his defense would be based on an alibi. In a statement to correspondents he denied he was a tnember of thè KuKlux Klan and declared he belleved thè “invisible empire” had been wrongfully accused in connection with thè killings. Seores of friends, many of them parish officials and prominent persona in this section. visit Burnett daily in his celi. The community has taken thè view some mistake has been made in thè arrest of Burnett.

CLASH FEARED ST m CSIIFSB Industriai Conference Speakers Wiil Not Be Permitted on Ftatr* By United Press WASHINGTON. Dee. 26.—Fearing a clash at thè Woman’s Industriai Conference, scheduled here for Jan. 11 to 13, thè Department of Labor today announced that speakers for clubs and like organizations would not be permitted to take thè floor. This decision followed word tliat a cr-rt.ain women’s politicai organization was preparing to stage a tight at tho conference. The women’s bureau of thè Department of Labor, which called tho conference. announced “that thè women’s employment managers, women ! workers. manufacturers and factory | inspectors, industriai statisttdans, ! public health experts, economists and Government administrators” would appear on thè program of speaker. STOCK IS INCREASED A notine of increase of capitai stock of G. Graulich & Co. of Evanavllle, from SIOO.OOO to $200,000, has been lìled with thè secretary .of State. DOUBLES CAPITAL The E vane ville Supply Company has ! increased its capitai stock from SIOO,- ! 000 to $200,000, accordine to a cdtioo flled with thè Aeorstary of Stata.