Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 202

FALL WILL QUIT POST IN MARCH

Official Announcement of Secretary of Interior’s Resignation Is Made at White House Today. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. —Secretary of Interior Fall will retire from President Harding’s Cabinet March 4, it was officially announced at the White House today. He will be the second member of the Cabinet to resign during President Harding’s administration, Will Hays having retired to * become head of the motion picture industry. The President offered Fall a position on the Supreme Court, succeeding Justice Pitney, it was said, but Fall declined to accept

SEVEN BREAK FROM COUNTY BAYS' ROME Six of Escaped Youths Are Caught After Dropping From Window. Breaking- the glass out of the bath room on the second floor of the county detention home, 1102 X. Capitol Ave., seven boys ranging in age from 12 to 16 escaped today by jumping to the ground. Police caught six of them in a field one half mile west of Seventy-Fifth St. and College Ave., after they had tried without success to locate them at | Twenty-Eighth St., and the .Monon Railroad. Those who escaped, held on various charges, were. Robert Fletcher, 14, of 1124 Oliver Ave.: Fred Kinder, 16, of 1534*4 Central Ave.; James Xorton, 14, of 1060 TV. McCarty St.; Joseph Hay, 14, of 1411 IV. Merrill St.; Walker Maynard. 14, colored, Maryland St. and Capitol Ave.; Vernon Purcell, 16, colored, no address, and Willie Joe Jones, 12, colored, no address.

SPLIT HOLDS Bf BUDGETREPBRT Committee Disagrees on Appropriations. Members of the State budget committee have disagreed on the amount of appropriations to be recommended for four State departments, it was learned at the Statehouse today. For this reason, the report of the budget department did not go to Governor McCray yesterday, as provided by law. Jesse E. Eschbach. head of the budget committee, said a special meeting of the committee will be held at his office Thursday afternoon for the purpose of making a final report, and k that this report then will be submit- " ted to the Governor. He said the Governor may meet with the committee. Eschbach expressed the opinion that the appropriations bill can go to the Legislature immediately after its submission to the Governor. In previous' >ears it has been a practice to introduce the appropriation bill toward the end of a session. EIGHT INJURED WHEN FLYER JUMPS TRACK Broken Kail Causes Wreck on Central Georgia Road. By United Press MACON, Ga., Jan. 2. —Eight persons were injured, three seriously, when the Dixie Flyer of the Central Georgia Railway was derailed near here e irly today. A broken rail is believed to have caused the wreck. Seven cars left the track and turned over in the ditch. HIT BY AUTOMOBILE Oscar Fondaw, 310S N. Emerson Ave., was at the city hospital today suffering from injuries received last night whefi he was struck by an automobile as he was walking on the Pendleton Pike near Emerson Ave. The driver of the car failed to stop. Fondaw walked home, but later was sent to the hospital in an ambulance. His injuries were reported not serious. ' THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is unsettled weather tt night and Wednesday. Temperature tonight near freezing ana collier Weditesdav. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m........ 3410 a. m 38 7 a. m 3411 a. m...*.... 3S: 8 a. m 3512 (noon) 331 • m........ 37 1 p. m 41 1

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I this position. At the White House it was said that Fall was insistent upon returning to j his private business which he has long neglected because of his long public life in the Senate and Cabinet. It was declared, however, that President Harding’s recent decision to support the conservationists in their fight against Fall's plan to gain control of the forest reserve of the country by having the forestry bureau transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department cf the Interior played some part in the secretary's determination to retire. There was no indication today as to who would succeed Fall as Secretary of the Interior. President Harding has made no decision as to his successor, it was said. Carml Thompson, recently defeated for the governorship of Ohio: Senator Harry Xew. defeated for the senatorship in Indiana, and Representative Mondell, Wyoming, defeated for the senatorship in Wyoming, are among those most prominently mentioned for the post. Fall will have rounded out exactly two years of service in the Cabinet when he retires March 4. Previous to that he served nine years as a Senai tor from Xew Mexico.

BANKER ARRESTED AETES ACCIDENT

Stoughton A. Fletcher Accused on Speeding Charge. Stoughton A. Fletcher, banker, was arrested today on a warrant charging him with assault and battery and speeding. Police said the arrest was the result of an accident at St. Clair St. and Ft. Wayne Ave. Dec. 28, in which Helen Grant, 21, of 1654 Columbia Ave., was injured. The truck in which she was riding with her father. Forest Grant, was struck by a car driven by Fletcher, police say. At the time of the accident Robert H. Tyndall, who was with Fletcher, gave his name to Grant, police said. He was released on SIOO bond signed by Tyndall. EVANGELIST OPENS SERIES OF THEATER MEETINGS Dr. Anderson Makes Plea for More Christian Domes. Making a plea that every' girl anil boy in Indianapolis have a Christian home and urging that the “guest chamber’’ of the heart and the home he kept ready for Christ, Dr. George Wood Anderson, evangelist, who is conducting services at the Roberts Park M. E. Church, opened a series of public noonday meetings today at B. F. Keith’s Theater, under the auspices of the Indianapolis Church Federation. “Let us impress upon the thousands and thousands of young men and women who are not in the church the power of the singing Christ,” Dr. Anderson said. Walter B. Jenkins, soloist and song leader, will begin the noonday meetings promptly at 12 m. daily with a song service. BOARD SELECTS BANKING HOUSES FOR COUNTY FUNDS Total of -58.902.89fi Will Be Deposited in Forty-Four naves. County funds for 1923, totaling $8,902,896, will be kept in forty-four city and State banking houses selected as depositories, it has been announced by the county board of finance. The board is composed of the board of county commissioners, the county auditor, mayor and controller of Indianapolis, business director of the city school board and the county treasurer.

WERTZ APPOINTED Henry Wertz, formerly sheriff of Fountain County, was named deputy United States marshal by Linus P. Meredith, United States marshal, today. He will succeed Frank S. Ream. Meredith said that Ream would be retained possibly for several months. REPORTS CAR STOLEN William G. Hessler. Greensburg, Ind.. reported his Ford coupe stolen from the Ohio St- side of the Federal building. " } BUTLER SWORN IN By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. —Pierce Butler was sworn in as an associate justice of the Supremo Court today.

29 Lives Claimed Over New Year

By United Press NEW YEAR’S celebrations, motoring parties and poison liquor took a country-wide toll of life over the weekend. Chicago led cities in the death list, nine being killed in auto accidents and one shot to death. Eleven persons lost their lives in Ohio as a result of holiday accidents or shootings. In New York two were shot to death; in Detroit, 2; in Philadelphia, 3, and in ’Wilmington, Del., 1. New York began the year with two deaths from shooting, eighteen persons wounded by firearms, 127 persons jailed following liquid raids, twenty-three false alarms of fire, eighteen

Here Are Samples of New Crop of ‘Stenos’ Preparing for Business Life

Left to right: Ivah Britton, 15 X. Gray St.; Vern Stuffy, 128 S. HawWhere do they all come from and where do they all go? Officials of Indianapolis business colleges and high schools estimate 2,000 young women educated them-

Resigns Post as Secretary of Interior

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ALBERT B. FALL

HEALTH DIYISiDN ASKS FIB FUNDS Appropriation Wanted for New Fire Apparatus. Anew scale of salaries in the controller’s office and abolish office of assistant street commissioner and creating instead the office of superintendent of street repairs, will be asked in ordinances to be introduced in a special meeting of the city council tonight. The jay-walking ordinance, which at present is in the hands of a committee, probably will be re-introduced and an extension of time asked for bv the committee. Authorization of a $175,000 temporary loan for the department of public health and charities, and provision for an additional clerk in the city clerk’s office, will be asked in two general ordinances. Appropriation of $45,185 for purchase of new fire apparatus and $9.003.40 to pay a bill for ornamental street lights in Broad Ripple are asked in two appropriation ordinances. New officers, whichtwere decided upon at a Republican caucus several weeks ago, were elected without opposition at the regular meeting of the council last night. The three Democratic councilmen were given chairmanships of relatively unimportant committees. John E. King was elected president and named the following heads of committees: Finance, Ben H. Thompson; public works, Theodore J. Bernd, retiring president; public safety, Walter E. Wise; health and charities, Ira L. Bramblett; parks, Lloyd I). Claycomb; law and judiciary, Heydon W. Buchanan; city welfare, William E. Clauer, and Otto Ray, elections. Wise was elected president pro tern, and Claycotnb member of the city plan commission.

INDICTMENT AGAINST WARD IS DISMISSED Millionaire Charged With Murder Is Given Freedom. By United Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jan. 2. The murder indictment against Walter S. Ward, son of the millionaire i wner of a chain of bakeries, was dismissed today by Justice A. H. F. Seeger. Ward had been charged with killing Clarence S. Peters, alleged blackmailer. WOMAN SURPRISES THIEF Mrs. Jennie Cohn, 818 S. Illinois St., was in the rear of her grocery when she heard the cash drawer open. She looked into the store and saw a colored man behind the counter. The thief saw her and ran.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 2, 1923

thorne Dane; Mary Jane Sheets, R. R. M l, Box 134: Alice Richards, selves to become stenographers in 1922 and more will be turned out this year. There always is room for more, school officials say, because new

Doggone If Dogs Care About This

By a Dog I'm no. a valuable dog in a wellkept kennel. I'm Just an ordinary cur, living in the city dog pound at the present time. But I have feelinfg, even if I am a cur. And I know now how s prisoner would feel if he was condemned to die and the death penalty was about to be abolished. You see, If I stay here two weeks and no one claims me or wants to adopt me, I shall be put to death. That's what happens to us dogs that don't have any hom<vs. But now there is no money to keep up the dog pound, so my sentence tnay not be carried out. Airedale Explains I don't know much about legal problems, but one of the |f>o airedalcs (there are two of them here) was explaining the situation to me. He is well-educated. He said the appropriation ([ think ho called it that) for the dog pound ran out at midnight on Dec. 31. Last fall the city council decided not to keep up the pound, so there Is no money to furnish food or anything else for us. But now some of the officers have changed their minds; so tonight a bill will be presented to the council to provide $3,700 for the dog pound for 1023. If the bill passes I may have to die in two weeks—but I may bo adopted; and if It doesn't pass I shan’t have any home. Some of the counoilmen don't want to spend the money, even though the Stnte law says every city must have a dog pound. That's what the airedalo says.

Dr. Elizabeth Conger, who takes care of us, was still on the job today. She says we should have a better place than this house next to the city asphalt plant at E. New York St. and the Monon Railroad. We have just a rickety old stove that might fall down and burn up all of us. Ugh! Consider New Pound Maybe we will bet anew home —the Indianapolis Humane Society’s shelter house on the Pendleton pike, northeast of the city. The airedale told me the city officials have been talking about renting this place from the Humane society for S3O a month and using it as a dog pound. In the meantime, here we stay, forty of us, not knowing what will happen to us. We’re not all curs. There is one collie who knows a lot und is valuable, and there are just lots of pretty little dogs and welltrained big ones. The airedale said that if the bill should not go through tonight, and

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EVER since the war, Americans have sensed unrest throughout the country—orderly unrest, but nevertheless unsettled conditions, uncertainty, everywhere. Try to analyze the cause. Every person will give a reason—but each reason will be different. We all feel something is needed —but meantime, construction, business enterprises, new industries are being delayed by this uncertainty just at the time when the world looks to America to take the Dad in reconstruction. To thoroughly analyze this mass of conflicting beliefs and find out .just what the country really thinks about it. The Indianapolis Times, in co-operation with several hundred otlier representative newspapers, clients of NEA SERVICE, will conduct a national poll on the question:

auto crashes and eighteen persons admitted to Bellevue Hospital suffering from acute alcoholism. Although more than 1,000 cases and restaurants were raided by the dry forces, New York was far from dry. Reckless shooting from windows and roof tops assumed the proportions of a real peril. Os the two persons killed, one was a little girl of eight years and the other a many of sixty. They were both shot by stray bullets. Chicago’s list of nine dead included seven women and two men. There were 736 deaths in Chicago from automobile 'accidents during 1922. Murder, suicide and accidental shootings took a toll of eleven lives in Ohio.

1007 E. Sixteenth St.; 1/orette Keller, 3023 Broadway, and Marbusinesses are constantly being established, typists win promotions and many of them get married. Office romances are frequent. It requires from six months to a

then we should be killed any way. It would be murder. And he said we could bring habeas corpus proceedings (he spelled it for me), because we are being kept in the dog pond and, technically, there is no city dog pound. 1 wasn’t sure what he meant, but maybe you will know. You see, 1 am only a cur. SACK or fades’ STOLEN OFF CAR Conductor Trusts PassengerThief to Transfer. A passenger who had 5 cents when he got on. had $33.65 when he left a West Indianapolis street car at Washington and Illinois Sts., at 2 a. m. toduy, police were told. Leslie Rivers, £629 X Illinois St., the conductor, had the me ney in a sack on the seat of the car. The passenger got on the ear and said he only had 5 cents, but wanted an E. Washington St. transfer. He gave the conductor a card and asked him to trust him for a transfer. The conductor gave the transfer. The bag and cash were missing after the pasenger got off.j

TWO MEN ARRESTED IN DISPUTE OVER TAXI BILL Driver Calls Police, Who Accuse “Fares” of Drinking. “When the dance is over you must pay the fiddler,” Is changed to “when the ride is over you must pay the taxi driver.” Harry Sturges, 2309 Massachusetts Ave., taxi man, called the police to 316 E. Henry St. at -2:30 a. rn. today. He said two men refused to pay a sl2 taxi bill. Motor Police Dillane and Oakley arrested men registering as John Mack, 21, of 326 E. Henry St., and Leslie Poland. 20, 232 Trowbridge St., on charges of intoxication and failing to pay a taxi bill. BANK CALL ISSUED By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of Dec. 29.

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BABY SANDERS ENTRANTS POUR IN STRETCH CF RACE

Winner of Silver Cup Will Be Decided This Week. When the photographer said, “Now look at the birdie and smile,” the baby just closed his eyes firmly and puckered up his lips. After all, he had been in the world only a few hours, so he could hardly be expected to forget the language of Babyland and learn more complicated words in such a short time. This young hopeful is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sanders, 2179 Fountain St. He is one of the strongest bidders for the silver baby cup the Times will give to the first baby born in Marion County in 1923. He was born thirty seconds after 12 o’clock Sunday night. Other babies are trying to beat young Sanders in the race for the cup. Every baby still has a chance, for not only must the baby’s name be entered in the contest, but proof of the exact time of the birth must be given in the form of the birth certificate or a statement from the doctor. All entrants must be in by noon Wednesday.

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PASTORS SEEK BAN ON FATTY

Ministers Pass Resolution Deploring 1 Will Hays’ Action in Reinstating Screen Comedian. Deploring the order of Will 11. Hays, movie czar, reinstating Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle to the screen and pledging itself to use all methods to prevent the showing of the Arbuckle films in Indianapolis, the Union Ministers’ Association passed a resolution at its first 1923 meeting, it became known today. To decide on a definite plan of action to prevent the showingof Arbuckle films in this city, the executive council of the Indianipolis Church Federation was scheduled to meet today.

“In view of the recent reports in our daily papers under the signature of W. H. Hays,, that the ban on the Arbuckle films will be lifted on Jan. 1, we, the Ministers’ Union of Indianapolis, representing 85.000 people, wish to utter our protest against such action,” the ministers stated in their resolution passed yesterday at the Roberts Park Cliureh. “We deplore and resent the attempt to place Air. Arbuckle as an instructor of the youth of our land. We feel that it is making profit at the expense of morals and pledge ourselves to use every means in our forces to prevent the showing of such pictures in our city and State.” The resolution bears the names of Dr. Ernest X. Evans, Dr. Virgil I E. Rorer and Dr. Frederick E. Webb. At the office of the Church Federation it was admitted the executive council was planning to take definite action regarding the Arbuckle films. Indications are that an injunction may be asked in the courts.

PROBEDFDIDDLE KILLING OPENS Grand Jury Convenes to Investigate Newcastle Murder. By l nited Press NEWCASTLE, IncL. Jan. 2.—An echo from the Honey Creek murder farm, where Bill Shaffer and his wife were sl;un a month ago, resounded in the courthouse today when a grand jury investigation was started. The jurors seeking the real facts behind the crime may turn to 3-year-old Billy Iluffstickle, a nephew' of Mrs. Shaffer, who was rescued from the death house five days and five nights after the crime was committed, suffering from exposure, hunger and thirst. Bill with his childish prattle has implicated a woman whom he said came to the place and got him a glass of jelly, leaving again. “I thought it was you mamma, and I cried," Billy said. Asa result investigators have followed Independent clews, searching through the underworld, watching neighbors who are under suspicion and looking for two men and two women who were seen to abandon Shaffer's 'stolen automobile on tine night the couple was hacked to death, and $7,000 worth of diamonds stolen from their house. COURTHOUSE YARD FREE OF ALL MARKET STANDS Lawn Cleared for First Time iu Years. For the first time in years the courthouse “lawn was bare of market stands today. The peddlers who have been selling bananas and other tropical fruits under the guise of producers were located just across the edge of the walk, on city property. The change was brought about by order of the county commissioners, all three of whom \ declared their intention of beautifying the yard. “I am going to take up with Mayor Shank a proposition to utilize these empty lots across from the city hall for bona fide producers,” said Hoffman. “We think the county might pay half, and the city half and the place gravelled, and maybe wooden stands built. It would be expensive, but would be fine for farmers and city people both.”

DOCTOR WHO TREATED WALLY REID ARRESTED Head of Sanitarium Held for illegal Dealing in Narcotics. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jin. 2 —Dr. John Scott Barker of Oakland was under arrest today charged wtih illegal dealing in narcotics. Dr. Barker owned a sanitarium near Los Angeles, where Wallace Reid, Alin star, was “treated” for the drug habit. His arrest was brought about through the use of marked bills. GAS ELECTION SLATED The annual election of nine directors of the Citizens Gas Company will be held at a meeting of the board of trustees next Monday jhe present board is composed cf Franklin Vonnegut, G. A. Schnull. A’f:.d M. Potts James W Dunbar, 1-1. H Hornbrook. J H. Hookey, J B Stepp, John K Welch and J. Dorsey Forrest. The trustees are Thomas L. Sullivan, chairman; Lucius B. Swift. G. A Schnull, Henry Kahn and Robert Lieber.

Forecast UNSETTLED tonight and "Wednesday. Temperature tonight, near freezing; colder Wednesday.

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CONTEST FOR SPEAKERSHIP NARROWING

Indications Are That LeadershTp Race May Close Informally Today. Indications that the race for speakership of the Indiana House of Representatives would close, informally at least, by 6 o'clock this evening, were observed today at various places where committee meetings were being held. On the otuer hand, several familiar with the situation are of the, opinion that the race will be slower and much more closely fought than heretofore, due to the unsually largo number of members seeking the place of honor. With announcement of the withdrawal of Oscar A. Ahlgren, of Whiting, Lake County Representative, th* race in that section of the State has narrowed to two members. J. Glenn Harris, of Gary, and James L Day of East Chicago, with the former probably a favorite locally. Harris, wh® is aii attorney, said today his chances depended on his being able to indue® Day to withdraw from the contest. Final vote will be taken at a caucus Wednesday night in the House of Representatives chamber at the Statehouse. Lemuel A. Pittenger of Selma, is regarded by some as the likely chole®, while others believe, in view of this ring Pittenger's first term in 'the Legislature, that a more experienced man will be selleeted. Asa J. Smith of Indianapolis and Raymond C. Morgan of Knightstown, also axe Bald to have good chances. Among men said to have a chance in case of a tie-up were Dr. William R. Phillips of Glen wood and T .ke Duffey of Indianapolis. Representative Russell B. Harrison of Indianapolis today denied the report that Marion County Republicans had unanmously indorsed the candidacy of Smith. That the Marion County group ii* vided is certain and it is believed by some that this fact wiU deter unofficial selection of speaker until the time ©C the caucus.

TEUTONS MAKE OFFER TO SETTLE Evacuation of Allied Forces Contintingent on Payment. By United Press PARIS, Jan. 2. —The payment of 30.000,000.000 gold marks and immediate withdrawal of French octmpationary troops from advanced towns in Germany and the gradual evacuation of all other allied forces of occupation from Germany are the high lights of the Gnuian proposal on reparations to b® submitted to the meeting of premie-. * here by Dr. Karl Bergmann, Germany's representative, the United Press learneu officially today. 275 CHICAGO FIREMEN ARE ORDERED RETIRED Men Released for Good of Service, Commissioner Says. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 2. —Two hundred and seventy-five Chicago firemen were ordered retired today by Fire Commissioner John F. Cullerton that the city might have “the greatest fire fighting force in the world.” The men stepped ;iside because of disability, length of service, age and inefficiency, according to the commissioner. Chicago has 4,000 fire fighters.

Oh, Oswald! CHICAGO, Jan. 2. —Mrs. Kdna Peters offered $1 to any little boy or girl in the block who would find her lost dog, Oswald. In less than an hour Mrs. Peters had forty-eight dogs—but not Oswald.