Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1923 — Page 9

JAN. 8, 1923

MASTER THIEVES . GET GEAJi LOCI WORTH m,m Millionaire's Wife Stripped of . Jewels While Bound and Chloroformed. SEARCH IS INTERNATIONAL Woman Was Returning From New Year's Poker Party When Crabbed by Men. By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 3.—A croup of master gem thieves, working with the daring and cunning of Arisene Lupine, was hunted today in connection with the largest diamond and pearl robbery reported In New York in decades. Police Inspector Couehlln and heads of a famed international detective agency directed search through the underworld for three men who were declared to havr bound and gagged Mm Irene Schoellkopf, wife of a Buffalo millionaire manufact’ rer.early fcw Year's day and stripped her of ■jewels. Including ropes of pearls. \alued at $300,000. _ Robbery Is Reported C. P. Hugo Schoellkopf. who ne ported to police, declared that the half-million in gems were taken from his wife’s person Just after she left a fashionable poker party in the FiftySecond St. apartment of Frank Barrett Carman, actor and professional dancing man. Three men. led by a stranger who furnished champagne at the poker party, seized her as she went downstairs New Year's day to return to her hotel, Mrs. Schoellkopf told the police. They dragged her Into an apartment on the floor just below the scene of the party—and after binding and chloroforming her, took her jewels and fled, she declared. Schoellkopf. who was not here at the time of the party, arrived yesterday to aid In the search for the jewels.' which wilt Immediately become international with notification of police heads in foreign capitals. Stories Conflict Conflicting stories were told as to iust what happened at the poker game, which was transferred to Carman’s apartment after a friend of Mrs. Schoellkopf. at whose home it was to have been held, became ill, according to Coughlin. "She first declared she was seized and dragged into the apartment where the robbery was committed.’’ Coughlin told reporters. He claimed that later Mrs. Schoellkopf admitted she went Into the room to call I* taxi to take her home when she was seized. The woman and her friends denied she made any such alteration in her original story.

STATE KHANS ORA ™ PLANS Officers Discuss Work at Conference Sessions Here. Plans for 1923 were outlined at the meeting of presidents, trustees and secretaries of Kiwanis Club of Indiana, at the Ciaypool Hotel today. Governor Burton D. Meyers presented the proposed work of the clubs in the Indiana district. Retiring Governor John X. Bromert, gave suggestions on efficiency in work of clubs of Indiana district. The noon session was to fco devoted to committee meetings. The following committees were to work out plans for the clubs during the coming year. Education: Benjamin F. Moore, Muncle; C. H. Taylor, Bloomington: John L. Early, Greenfield; C. E. Endicott, Huntington; H. E. Metzner. Ft. Wayne; H. H. Martin, La Porte; Inter city relations. J. Tom Arbuckle, Rushville; M. Llenberger, Columbia: E. C. GoWell, Winamac; T. D. Scales, Boonville; Judge W. Pi. Elchorn, Bluffton; E. W. Secrest, Hartford City; business methods, John P. Goodwin, Brookviile; J. H. Henry, Attica; G. C. Landgrebe, Huntington; E. B. Williams, Knigiitstown; Dr. C. C. Keefer, Union City; J. De Bow, Pappanee; grievance. Dr. A. R. Ross, Lafayette: J. G. Long, Logansport; G. B. Campbell, South Bend; E. Brooks, XoblesviUe: Wylie S. Hastings, Washington; publicity, Fred 11. Bowers, Huntington; J. R. Andrews, Bedford; W. W. York. Elwood: W. G. Jones, Newcastle; Dr. R. W. Schroyer. Vincennes; Dr. J. S. Leffel, Connersville. The afternoon sessions were group meetings for trustees, presidents and secretaries of tiie clubs. Discussions of effective methods to be pursued by the officers will be held in these group meetings. A dinner at the Ciaypool Hotel this evening will conclude the program of the convention. THE WOWAH PQW!prOF AMERICA i- well illustrated by tbe thousands of women who are entering every profession almost every line of business and politics as wall. Th*y are bound to make good, and there is no question but health is their greatest asset, pfanv women, however, develop weak, nervous conditions and cannot stand the strain of a professions! or business life. Si t women should remember when 1 t with heat aches, backache, nervti • es, irritrbil ty or any ailment peer' r to the'r s* ■ "•at the greatest of s!l e nedic for -• irh conditions is •sjft i % !'!" t eg. taltle tjompeund. Koi carl fifty ;. rrs this o|(I-fa<hioued roo ant herb m'-di'-itu- has been restoiiui tiie .'-omen of America to health and atriGiftJ- It holds the remarkable i svd of helping out of every 100 women wl o try it.—Advertisement.

Loyal Indiana University Alumni and Students Raise Money for Memorial at Bloomington

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To increase facilities for the training of students, 25,000 alumni and former students of Indiana University, Bloomington, assisted by the present student body, are raising a fund of $1,600,000. Three new buildings will be erected, a Union building, a stadium and a women’s dormitory, as a memorial to the university’s 2,800 soldiers in the World War, fiftytwo of whom gave up their lives In service. "Mother of College Presidents" is the distinctive title which has been given to the university as a result of her imposing record of having trained twenty-seven firing presidents and ex presidents of institutions of higher learning in the United States. Known as "the cradle of education" in the. Middle West, Indiana University from its founding has been linked with the names of dis-

Opera Club Will Present Old Comic Opera Soon

The Opera Club of Butler College will present the Gilbert and Sullivan opera. “The Pirates of Penzance,’’ at the Masonic Temple on Thursday night, Jan. 11. Arnold Spencer, who is director of the Murat Chanters, and director of music of the Central Christian Church, is in charge of the production. The cast is as follow*: Elizabeth Callon as Mabel, Mildred Johns as Ruth, the nursemaid; Dorothy Ryker os Edith, Sarah Sison as Kate, Marjorie Chiles as Isabel, William Pelrcy as Fredrich, Kenneth Thome as the Pirate King, Morrison Davis as the Major General. Stephen Badger as Samuel, the pirate lieutenant, and George Kistler, as the police sergeant. DEFENSE WITNESS ON HEIN STAND Tells of Shooting Around Leslie Strip Mine. By United Press MARION, His., Jan. 3.—Frank Renfrew. 65, union miner, first defense

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ting'rished nien. Os the thousand most eminent living scientists listed tn the recent edition of "American Men of Science,” twenty-eight received an education at Indiana University. Forty members of the university’s present faculty are listed in the latest edition of "Who’s Who in America.” Indiana University’s twenty-seven sons who are now college president* or ex-presidents and the instructions they represent are as follows: Robert J. Alev, Butter College; Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore College; James P. Battenburg, Northwestern State Teachers' College, Alva, Okla.; E. W. Bohannon. Minnesota State Normal School. Duluth. Minn.; John C. Branner, (president emeritus) Poland Stanford Junior University; K. B. Bryan. Ohio University: E. A. Bryan, (ex-president) Washington State College, now commissioner of education of Idaho; William L. Rryan. Indiana University; I-Atus D. Coffman, University of Minne-

Here Is a ( liance to Do Lot of Thfwtrlcal Shopping Among the attractions on view toare: George Arliss in “The Green Goddess” at the Murat; Otis Skinner in “Mister Antonio” at English’s; Dp Lyle Alda at B. F. Keith’s. "Listen: ; Lester” at the Palace, “Twenty Minutes in Chinatown” at the I.yric. j “Broadway Belles" at the Broadway, “Ship Ahoy” at the Rialto, “Pawned” at the Apollo, "Quincy Adams Sawyer" at the Ohio, "Thirty Days” at the Colonial, "The Dangerous Age” at the Circle, “The. Boss of Camp 4” at the Mister Smith's, "The Secret ' of th<“ Storm Country” at th* Isis,! and "Blazing Arrows" at the Regent, i witness called today In the Herrin massacre trial, told the jury he saw shooting from the Lester strip mine on the afternoon of June L "1 was standing on the tipple of a nearby mine and saw puffs of smoke oomlng from the mine,” Renfrow said. "I saw crowds of men, women and children In the fields surrounding the mine. The bullets from the mine were landing amongst the people. I could tell this by the clouds of dust that came up where the shots hit the ground. "It was some time before the shots were returned.”

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sota: Edward Conradl, Florida State College for Women; John M. Coulter, (ex-president) Indiana; Morris E. Daily, State Normal School, San .Pise. Cal.; M. W. Deputy, State Normal School, Benldji, Minn.; E. T. Franklin, Union College, Eldo Iyewi.s Hendricks, State Normal School. Warrensburg, Mo.; L. N. Hines, Indiana State Normal School, Terre Halite. Ind.; E. O. Holland, Washington State College; Walter A. Jessup. University of Iowa; David Starr Jordan (chancellor emeritus) Le!and Stans rd Junior University: E. H. Ltndley, University of Kansas; John E. McOilvrey, Kent State Normal College Kent, Ohio; W, A. Millie, Hanover College: Walter P. Morvan, Western Illinois State Normal School, Macomb, 111.; William Wood Parsons, 'president emeritus) Indiana State Normal School; Joseph Swain, (ex-president) Swarthmore College; Otho Winger, Manchester College; E. C. Woodbum, State Normal School, Snearftsh. S. I>.

WfIGESBISGUSSEO AT KINEPKRLEY Final Effort Being Made to Fix Union Scale. Ry United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—Mine operators and union leaders met here today in a final effort to reach a basis for anew wage scale in the bituminous coal fields. The mine owners were prepared to offer the workers a compromise proposal whereby the men would continue under the present wage scale after the agreement expires April 1, without a contract. A. deadlock was reached at previous meetings in an effort to establish a basis for reaching new agreements. The workers demanded a six-hour day and a five day week, which the operators declare would result in an increase of 30 per cent in the cost of digging coal. Blackheaded Pimples Quit WiShS.S.S. Why? Pimple-Poison GocsWhen Rad-Blood-Ceils Increase! S. S. S. Builds These Red-Blood Cells. Yon can be snre of this, nature has no Substitute for red-blood-ceils. Pimplepoison can’t lire in the red rivers of your blood as long at there are enough rich red-blood-cells fa it. Mors red-

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QUESTION CHILD FOR Min CLEW Billy Huffstickle, 3 Years Old, Is Taken Before Grand Jury at Newcastle. By United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 3.—A little child tried to point the way today to solution of the mysterious hatchet murder of Bill Shaffer and his wife. Billy Huffstickle, 3, who was imprisoned in the death house of the Honey Creek farm for five days and live nights until the crime was discovered, appeared before the Henry County grand jury as a witness. From the youngster, the grand jurors hoped to learn more details of his oft repeated statement which pictured a. woman trailing hurriedly through the blood spattered rooms and up the stairway to get Billy a glass of Jelly. On this jelly, a piece of apple pie and a. small amount of water Billy lived while he suffered from cold and slept near the mutilated corpse of his aunt, Mrs. Shaffer. It. was presumed that the youngster would repeat again his story of two men visiting the house to “see Uncle Bill about his pigs.” But every sentence that little Billy utters is disconnected in a childish

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A Tuneful Little Miss Lands Here Thursday

ADA MEAD "Elsie” is the latest addition to the stage family of "Mary.” "Irene” and “Sally.” “Elsie” is about ten days old and she will land at English's Thursday night for a three-day visit. She is getting ready for a Chicago engagement. Ada Mead is in the cast. way and Prosecutor Jeffrey planned to play with him during the examination, rather than risk frightening him by direct. questioning.

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FATHERS AND MOTHERS Tell You That MENTHO-LAXENE IS UNEQUALED FOR COUGHS and COLDS Read What They Say

“I Must Recommend Mentho-Laxene 7 ’ “CHICAGO LADY TESTIFIES” Mn A. Sore. 8820 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IIL. writes: ”1 received Dr. Baker's Health and Beaut; Book and thank you for the same. 1 must recommend Mentho-Laxene as the best cough medicine 1 have ever tried. I had a longstanding, deep-seated cough, that nothing seemed to do any good, until I tried year wonderful MenthoLexens. It has given me quick relief and made me feel wonderfully well. My daughter hae a large family of children and they catch cold so easily and now she is using it in her family. I recommend same to all my neighbors and thank yon far all the good it haa dons for me.” “Tickling Catarrh of Throat For Years” “Ilad to Lay Off My Job for Three Months ” Another letter that prove* MenthoLaxene is both ths best Cough Syrup and "System Qearner,” too. Mr. Wrr.. Jones, 1258 W Monro* fit., Chicago, 111, writs* under date at April 28, 1M1: "For years I have been troubled wtth a tickling catarrh of the throat that caused a constant annoying cough that, se weakened me that about three month* ago I had to lajr off my job. So my druggist advised me to try Mentho-Laxene. whieh I did. It fixed me up fins, so quickly that I have now started to wort again at rty old icb as steam-titter. lam 56 years old, and I feel better that I ever

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