Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1923 — Page 2
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EITHER LAW OR KLAN WILL RULE, SAYS GOVERNOR PARKER
MM HOLDS UP APPROVAL OF ROAD ASSISTANTS County Commissioners Make Out Lists of Thirty-Two Superintendents. / RUMFORD REFUSES TO QUIT Highway Chief Says Postoffice Commended Condition of Pikes. Approval of the appointments of thirty-two assistant county road superintendents was held up again today by the failure of Harry Tutewiler, county commissioner, to sign the list. Commissioner Hoffman said the appointments wo'.Ud be ratified formally late this afternoon or early tomorrow. The list by districts, as decided on by each commissioner, Hoffman said, is as follows: Tutewiler: Division three; District one, Fred Powell; two, Elmer Kester: three, Charles De Ford; four, C. H. Peters. Division five. District one, Carl Cross; two, Jerry M. Gray; three, Nicholas Tex; four, Hubert Jordan. District five was dropped in this division. Hoffman: Division one. District one, John Weatherly; two, F. D. Hoffman; three, Harvey Darnell; four, Alfred Husey; five, Homer Traub; six, James Cossell. Division two. District one, Fred T. Gregg; two, F. E. Dunbar. District six was dropped from this division. Kitley: Division three, district five. William Beverlari" six, William Ellis; seven, dropped; eight, S. L. Boland: nine, Gus Bowen. Division four, district one, Charles Bolander; two. Herman Bakemeier; three, Albert King; four, Benjamin Lautz; five. Samuel Pfendler; seven. Harry Hansing; and eight, Harry Shapp. The board refused to comment on the refusal of Warren C. Rumford, superintendent of roads, to resign in favor of Goerge Burks. Rumford has three years to go before his contract expires. In a statement Rumford said that he had received a letter from the Postoffiice Department stating that the roads of Marion County were in better shape this winter than for several years.
LEADER OF GANG IS SHOT DOWN Tragedy of Underworld Brought to Light in Discovery. By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 3.—A tragedy of the underworld came to light today when William Lovett, called by the police the leader of the Brooklyn “white hand gang’’ was found In a lodging house on the water front near death from three bullet wounds. “This is a game of give and take,’’ he gasped, as he was being carried to the ambulance. “When we get it; we take it.” He refused to betray the names of his assailants. The shooting, he said, occurred in the street. The assassin then carried him into the building and put him to bed. Police believed Lovett’s “executic.i” was plotted by other members of his organization, which was split over internal politics. TENANT PROSPECT SEES EXODUS OF BLIND TIGER Police Seek Man Alleged to Have Moved Booze Cargo. Police today are searching for Lucius Wilson, colored, of 525 N. Talbott St., wanted on a blind tiger charge, after it is alleged that Wilson removed a quantity of white mule and colored whisky from Apartment 6, at 814 N. Meridian St. B. J. Wall, .Apartment 12, at the same address, to , J the police he was in Apartment 6 with a view of renting it when he discovered thirteen pints >f colored whisky and two gallons of white mule hidden in a closet. He said when he returned to the apartment after calling the police that he discovered Wilson leaving. ARBUCKLE FILMS BARRED IN OHIO r State Censor Board Puts Ban on Fat Comedian. By United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 3. —Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle was barred from appearing on Ohio movie screens by the State censor board today. “If Arbuckle films are submitted to this board they will be rejected.” said a statement from Education Director Riegel.
Safety Andrew Holos, 43, laborer, llt4 Kentucky Ave., thought he had found a safe place for a still, according to police. He had not, though. Lieut. Corrigan and Sergt. Naglieson raided the home today and said they found a ten-gallon still beneath the family altar. Through an interpreter Holos said he was a member of a Polish church. He is charged with operating a blind tiger, although Bio liquor was found.
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Politicians great and small scrambled around hotel lobbies end governmental buildings today lining up votes for the speaker of the House of Representatives who will be named at a republican caucus tonight. Lemuel A. Pittenger. above, and Raymond C. Morgan, below, appeared to be the leading candidates.
MID MOM NIK GEM MEALS Famous Russian of Untold Wealth Is Penniless. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—lliador, famaus as Russia’s “mad monk,’’ former familiar of the emperor and empress and man of untold wealth, is now a tenant of an East Side New York flat and wondering where next month’s rent is coming from. Not so long ago Iliador’s monastic environment assured him of his bed and board, and his imperial friends were lavish in gifts of precious stones. Whereas once the imperial wand made room for him in the palace, the only symbol of hope to him now is the three gold balls that hang over a hockshop. His Wealth Melts Around Thanksgiving Iliador, whose right name is Sergei Michaelowitch Turfanof, came to this country with trunks full of rubles. When the trunksful ran up against the rate ot^exchange a few paltry dollars, the price of a couple of American meals was all that accrued. He auctioned off a jeweled studded crucifix and a costly ikon. Under the new tariff law a person may not sell personal effects he has brought Into the country before three years have passed. So the United States demanded eighty per cent of what had been realized on the sale. Pays Bill Collectors But investigation revealed that Iliador only got $250 from the auction sale and ail of the money went to bill collectors. Now the purchaser, a rich Russian is being sought and the eighty per cent of an appraisal price will be assessed when he is found. ASSAILANT CHASES BOY Police are searching for a colored man who chased James Graham, 10, to his home last night. C. C. Graham. 3060 College Ave., father of the boy, gave a description of the man.
Heads British Mission
Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of th® British exchequer. Is shown he with Mrs. Baldwin as they sailed for the United States, where
Martial Law May Be Declared in Moorehouse Parish to Prevent Further Kidnapingof Witnesses —Feeling- Is Tense. By United Prrgy BASTROP, La., Jan. 3.—Citizens of Moorehouse parish who attend the open hearing in the courthouse here beginning Friday to investigate the kidnaping and killing of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards by a hooded mob, must cheek their shooting irons outside the court. Up in this country, where the roads are dark and homes far apart, where customs centuries old must how and yield to the strange demands of a newer civilization, the men carry weapons
as a matter of course, and “since that Mer Rouge affair.” they have oiled up :heir guns for action. Arms Barred init during the hearings, for the .rat time in the romantic history of sioorehouse parish, its citizens will iot be permitted to keep their side rms. The citizens of Bastrop, already re--entful at the occupation of the parish by State troopers on orders from Governor John M. Parker, gathered today in little groups along Main St., expressing their condemnation of the State's chief executive. Speculation regarding the posUtility of martial law renewed when news of the arrival of a cavalry troop spread. Governor Parker was advised to strengthen the guard here by his agents. Mer Rouge Anti Klan In Mer Rouge, a few miles away, sentiment was entirely different to that in Bastrop. When infantrymen first arrived there, they were hailed as "our protectors against hooded secret organizations,” and since, the village has aided the troopers. Bastrop is decidedly pro Klan, and Mer Rouge is just as decided antiKlan. Two different versions of the affair are heard in the two towns. Governor Parker. In ordering the investigation. declared “it is either the law or the Klan.” The Klan has been blamed in Mer Rouge because Daniels, one of the victims of the mob. openly defied the organization and its leaders, after they accused him of bootlegging. Federal investigators declared today telephone wires out of Mer Rouge have been tapped in an es fort to learn details of authorities’ moves. CAVALRY TROOP WARCHES INTO MER ROUGE P.<l United Press MER ROUGE, La., Jan. 3.—Moorehouse parish, where murders, kidnapings and whippings have rampant for months, will be placed under martial law according to information here today. The drastic move will be made to prevent further kidnaping and coercion of witnesses by masked terrorists charged with brutally beating and killing Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards last August. A troop of cavalry jaunted into Mer Rouge today and took up temporary quarters in the Masonic building. The additional guardsmen were called in to prevent new intimidations of important State witnesses following the kidnaping of Harold Teegestrom. 19, by a band of black masked men. They will also be used to preserve peace during the opening hearings at Bastrop beginning Friday.
Old Crowd Gathering for Another Assembly
Irt HE lobbies of the hotels and of the Siatchouse were full of ' life today as the members of the Legislature, job seekers and lobbyists renewed acquaintances and sought favors. The legislative session opens tomorrow. • • * Rome Brown of Anderson, veteran doorkeeper of the Senate, was all over the place, expecting to get the job again. He says he has bought anew can of badge polish to keep the large nickel-plated shield he wears In the course of his duties in trim. • • • The seats in the Senate have been rearranged in such a way that it will not be so easy for spectators to mingle with the members. The story is told that frequently lobbyists have voted when the names of absent members were called. It is said one lobbyist was present so much the Senate roll clerk acquired the habit of calling his name in roll calls. • • • The crop of broad-brimmed black hats is more plentiful than ever among the members. • * * Zell Swain, seeking re-election as secretary of the Senate, appeared with a loudly checkered shirt and many stories of his experiences as a Government booze sleuth. • • • Many occupants of offices in the Statehouse who were moved out
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FEDERAL AGENTS jDINDDPE PROBE . FOLLOWING RAID Believe Arrests May Lead to Discovery of Ring of Narcotic Dispensers. Police today were expecting four or five more arrests In the alleged narcotic ring discovered following a raid op a house at 412 W. Vermont St. late yesterday. Federal officials were investigating. William Williams, colored, 38, 528 N. Senate Ave. was fined $1 and tests and sentenced to thirty-five days in jail in city court today, when found guilty of being connected with the dope ring. The cases of William Miller, 26, of 3419 N. Senate Ave., and Charles Merton, 39, of 1626 N. Capitol Ave., both colored, slated on charges of vagrancy, were continued until Jan. 9. The cases of Kejly and Fannie Weatherspoon, both colored, who are charged with operating a blind tiger at 412 W. Vermont St., were continued until Jan. 5. While police were at the Vermont St. house a knock was heard at the door and they admitted Wiliams. IHe was carrying a bundle containing a dress which, it is alleged, was taken from the People’s Friend Clothing Company. 434 W. Washington St. A second knock was heard at the door and Miller was admitted he had four bottles of habit-forming drugs, police say. Miller told police the drugs were obtained from Morton who, it was charged, was employed by Dr. Oscar Jones, 1821 W. Washington St. Morton was found at the physician's office. Bottles of drugs were found in Morton’s possession, police say. Morton is said to have admitted he delivered dope to Flossie Dunn, colored, 412 \V. Vermont St., who Is under indictment by the Federal grand jury on a charge of selling narcotics. PARKED AUTO STOLEN E. R. McNulty. 2109 N. Alabama St., parked his automobile at Capitol Ave. and Market St. last night. A thief stole it.
into the corridors to make way for the Legislature hope the constitution is amended so the Assembly will not haye to meet so often. • • • Department heads are wearing worried looks. Indications are that many of them will have their appropriations amputated. Thoso who have gone through the operation say it is very painful. * • • Senator Harold Van Orman of Evansville was looking up the bookings of musical shows during the session. He takes them all in.
His Hip Highness Insulted
Love me, love my bootlegger. This is the motto of at least ono prominent Indianapolis citizen, who dwells in an exclusive apartment house. AD CLUB REVIVES PLAN FOR NEW COURTHOUSE May Endeavor to Enlist Chamber of Commerce. “Sell the south half of the courthouse grounds bordering on Washington St., and erect a modern courthouse in the form of an office building on the other half along Market St.” This is the project being revived by men connected with the Indianapolis Advertising Club. A move soon may be made to have the Chamber of Commerce officially support the movement. Office buildings would be erected facing Washington St., and sale of this valuable ground would be a large figure toward erecting the new courthouse, under the plan discussed. VETERAN WEARS COAT 44 FIRST TIME SINCE '69 Civil War Soldier Recalls Days at Gettysburg. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 3. —C. A. Warren, sole surviving member of the Grand Army of the Republic post at Brownsdale, Minn., wore the same coat that he wore at the battle of Gettysburg at a recent American American Legion banquet in Minneapolis. Tfce coat lay packed in tobacco leavii in a trunk from 1869 to 1907. “ *1
Figures in Mer Rouge Terrorists Trials
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After her father was kidnaped by a band of hooded terrorists, Leota Richards, aged 3, went with her mother to the Louisiana State capltol at Baton Rouge and tearfully pleaded with Governor John M. Parker to find her daddy. The Governor started a probe under cover of militia guns, which found Leota's daddy, a mutilated corpse at the bottom of Lake
'Twas the night before New Year’s eve and all through the apartment nothing was stirring, not even a highball. The general air of expectancy was relieved by a knock at the door. It was opened. There stood a dignified man with two large, heavy suitcases. It was the long-awaited one, His Majesty the Bootlegger.
Husband Cuts Throat After Domestic Tilt
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J. F. Hinch, 40, 4046 Carrollton Ave., who slashed his throat at his home and wandered far north of town today, following a quarrel with his wife, Monday night.
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La Fourche, uncovered another slaying and now promises to lead to indictment against forty-five persons. Above at the left is District Attorney David Garrett, who will prosecute the cases. In the center above is Clarence Darrow, famous criminal attorney, reported engaged to defend suspects. At the right is Judge Fred Odom, who will hear the cases- Below, Leota Richards.
But His Highness was angry, “The elevator girl told me that hereafter I must make use of the servants’ elevator. If that is the case, my visits must cease,” he said. Out rushed the head of the house and descended upon the elevator maid. “What do you mean by insulting my friends?” he fairly shouted. “After this you treat this gentleman with respect.” “But I know what he is. he’s a bootlegger,” the girl answered. “Well, what if he is? lie has a right to make an honest living, hasn’t he?” was the reply. "This gentleman is a college graduate; he taught history in a high school for six years and was an instructor in a college for five years. Now he is4n business for himself and if you want to hold your job you had better learn to treat business men properly.”
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RUSSIANS BUILD CITTINBEBLIN Already Colony Has Reached Population of Indianapolis or Columbus. BY CARL D. GROAT By United Press BERLIN, Jan. 3.—The Russians are building within Berlin a Russian city of no mean proportions. Already their colony has reached a population figure as large as that of Columbus. Ohio, Indianapolis, or Denver. according to estimates of tile local Soviet embassy. The Russians have their own stores and banks, their own cases and theaters, music halls and papers. Restaurants Spring I'p Wherever ’ night life blooms, one finds now a Russian restaurant springing up. The cook of the Czar is employed in one. Prince this and princess that are managing others. Little Russian theaters, with the fascinating art and musif? of Moscow, lure the German and the visiting foreigner as well as hundreds of the Russian colony. “Der blaue Vogel” (the “Blue Bird”) showing the same pieces as the “Chauve Souris” in New York, is the pioneer in Russian theaters. One sits and smokes and drinks as in Moscoy: one absorbs the beauty, the pathos, the whimsical humor of the playets even though one does not know the language. Then there is the “Russisches Romantisches Theater” with dancing unparalleled any where In the world; and, too, the “Karussel” where accompanied by throbbing music one sees the bloodthirsty river pirate throw his bride into the Volga, because his companions complain that he loves her more than his profession. Russian Is Spoken Out in some portions of the west end one h°ars more Russian than German. That is where dwell the fugitives who have saved something of their pre-war fortunes, or who have built up anew fortune in honest or dishonest trading here. In the other end of town, one sees another class of Russians —dirty, haggard, cowering. Unregistered with the police, they pursue a shady life which mingles trading with thieving. The Russians lead in numbers of population in the foreign colony. There is an English-speaking colony of about 500 persons, which is swollen during the traveling season to about 5,000. according to American consular estimates.
DIVORCE JUDGE •RUBBER STUMP' PROVIDENCE. Jan. 3.—Judges of the Superior Court who are asked to pass upon divorce petitions are rapidly becoming “nothing but rubber stamps,” Judge A. A. Capotosto of the Providence County court declared from the bench when a woman who had been married less than eight months sued for a divorce. “I hope,” the court added, “that the Legislature will take steps to make experiments in marriage no longer possible.” 1 go Capotosto's statement was made during a hearing on the petition of Helena A. Gianfrancesco asking for a divorce from Petro Gianfrancesco. She testified that they were married last April and since then he had treated her cruelly. The divorce was granted.
YEGGS GET $14,000 By United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 3.—Robbers today blew the safe in the real estate office of George Harding, city controller, and escaped with $14,000.
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JAN. 3, 1923
DEADLOCK OCCURS 1 IS STATE FAIR BOARDELECTION Balloting Continues in Effort tc Eliminate Numerous Farmers’ v Seeking Places. GOVERNOR IS SPEAKER Two Mew Members Named Without Opposition Executive Appointments Expected. Balloting for members of the State board of agriculture continued this afternoon at a meeting in the House of Representatives of delegates representing numerous agricultural organizations. Five members were to be elected* representing the Fourth, Fifth. Sixth* Ninth and Eleventh congressional dis-n tricts. G. ft. Kemper of Columbus was named without opposition to represent the Fourth district. Fifth Is Tied The tie-up came in the balloting for a member from the Fifth district, a place for which there were five candidates. On the first ballot Harry McCabe of Greencastle was leading by a small plurality. No candidate had a majority and the balloting continued. In the Sixth District, Harry Motherly of Shelbyville was without opposition and was expected to be named. Two candidates were seeking the place from the Ninth District. They are Mac M. Coffing of Covington and E. J. Barker. Four were candidates from the Eleventh District. They are John Isenbarger of North Manchester, Charles L. Smith of Montpielier, Lin Wilson of Jonesboro, and Edgar E. Phillips of Walton. Governor Talks Governor McCray in addressing the meeting declared he was for a greater and better Slate fair. He announced he would ask the legislature to make the board of agriculture a State department. Mayor Shank made a brief talk in which he welcomed the delegates to the city and expressed his support of the State fair. The financial report of the board showed receipts amounting to $411,949.47 and disbursements amounting to $411,448 40. m Following the election of member# of the board Governor McCray wal expected to name three additional members. He said he would not announce the names of these members until the election is completed. TIMES WRITER TAKES COUE'S ‘BETTER’ CURE (Continued From Page 1) was Lincoln Steffens, getting material for a magazine article about Coue. And on the other side was ! the famous American sculptor, Jo | Davidson, making a clay model for a bronze bust of Coue. which is short- ! ly to be exhibited in Paris. He’s Thrifty Smoker Coue paid no more attention to them than he did to the humblest peasant in the room. He is totally I without narrow self-consciousness. | And here’s one thing which wiil make i a hit with American men: Coue rolls his own! Frequently, while he is explaining i his theory, or while he is speaking | to various patients, he gets out his paper and tobacco, rolls a cigaret and contentedly puffs away at it. And with true French thrift, he smokes it clear down to the butt. On the other days of the Week, except Sunday when he rests, Coue has one clinic a day for people who have come to Nancy from a distance. From All Over the World In addition to the French peasants and middle class people who carnet from all over the Lorraine country, saw Americans from New York and Connecticut, Britons, Canadians and one couple from South Africa. The Americans were mainly sufferers from neurasthenia. The French peasants came to be helped In their sufferings from stomach troubles, eczema, rheumatism, neuritis, all kinds of chronic ills. Coue himself says that young persons, and especially women, are most susceptible to his treatment. In the clinics I attended women were in the great majority and j many of them were old. Coue spots the newcomers at j once. He h; s an excellent memory for faces an 1 for the illnesses of the individuals. Makes Simple Inquiry He came over to me at once and I thought—" Now for it.” But he simply asked in his keenly. Interested way what I was suffering from. “Ah, bad nerves! Many of you Americans seem troubled that way. You will get better —and soon.” There were no other questions day, so far as I was concerned. But I was now a full-fledged patient at a clinic and welcome to get all the good out of it that I could. In his next art ole Bronner teds es his first treatment by Coue. SILENT ORATOR TELLS OF I. U. NIGHT SCHOOL The silent orator, the motograph the Merchants Heat and Light Company building, will flash a statement, beginning tonight, as follows: “Study venings in the Indiana University i-xlension class. Beginning Jan. 15. instruction in fifty-five subjects, Including English composition, public speaking, office management and a wide variety of cultural branches. Nearly a thousand students are enrolled. Offices 319 N. Pennsylvania Bt. i R. L Cavanaugh, director.