Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 204

80 MISSING IN BRIDGE CRASH

Suspension Structure Collapses, Hurling Human Traffic Into Swirling Waters. LOG JAM WEAKENS PILES Cowlitz River Steamers Plough Flooded Stream, Aiding in Work of Rescue. */ United Preaa KELSO, Wash., Jan. 4.—Authorities in charge of rescue work today declared the number of dead as a result of the collapse of the Kelso suspension bridge across the Cowlitz river here may ran as high as eighty. All sources were of the opinion, however, that it will be impossible to establish definitely how many persons lost their lives, owing to the impossibility of determining the exact number on the bridge when the cables snapped and the great structure, with its human freight, went lurching irt< the turbulent, muddy river waters. Witnesses agreed that the numb* on the bridge was about 150. Forty are known to have been res cued. An additional number rushed t< safety from the bridge approache.when the first warning came that th bridge was tottering. Eleven persons are listed as “known to be missing.” One man died in a hospital today. On a basis of 150 persons having been on the bridge, authorities believe that these figures accounted for all but approximately eighty. Victims Were Workers Most of the persons on the bridge ■were transient workers, many of them •lens engaged in constructing anew wn across the river from Kelso. Eye-witnesses and those who saved themselves from the water saw several men, women and children clutching at floating debris. Screams for help reached horror stricken witnesses on the river banks, who, powerless to aid, shouted directions to the crews of the steamer Pomona and Cowlitz, which were | ploughing against the current to I reach the struggling stores. A Log Jam Weakens Piers % For two weeks, the bridge has been £z lbjected to the pressure *'f a jam of , s which had broken loose and piled tjA against the piers. Officers had jCr n stationed at the approaches to regulate traffic Wednesday evening when the bridge was crowded to capacity by men returning from work. The entire bridge went out with the exception of a short length on the east bank. The cable snapped with a loud report, heard by all those on the bridge. The entire structure swayed an the cable ran through the truckle. The east towers fell within a minute after the cable broke. Towers Injure Workmen One of the towers fell against a new steel bridge under construction alongside of the old suspension structure, injuring several workmen. The long middle span and jackknife draw buckled as the floorway of the center spar, turned and threw all on it into the swirling waters. A number of corpses are believed entangled in the timber of the wreck lashed to the beams by ropes, worked cautiously above the swiftly running river, hunting for any men who may still be breathing. Seven men were seen drowning by one eye-witness, powerless to help. They were swept out of the mouth of the Cowlitz into the Columbia. Two children were seen struggling in the stream, with a man swimming after them.

THE WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vi cinity is unsettled with ruin or snow and temperature near freezing tonight Friday fair and colder. HOURLY' TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 29 10 a. m 2! 7 a. m........ 28 11 a. m 2! 8 a. m........ 29 12 (noon) 3( 9 a. m........ 27 1 p. m 32

‘AUTO-SUGGESTION’ YOUR PAINS AWAY, COUE TELLS TIMES WRITER

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AXC Y, France, Jan. 4.—The outstamling thing in the autosuggestion clinics of Emile Coue is that there is no privacy. When you come here to Nancy to attend his meetings, you simply have to make up your mind to throwreserve into the dust-heap. He shuns private appoint-

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Here Are Measures Governor Advises Legislature to Pass Herewith is a summary of legislation suggested by Governor Warren T. McCray in his message opening the

seventy-third General Assembly today: STATE REFORMATORY Appropriation of $2,000,000 asked to complete construction. TAX ON GASOLINE—Motor-driv-en conveyances to pay (sum not specified) and proceeds to go into highway fund. MOTOR LlCENSES —lncrease in fee from drivers of all motor vehicles. SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION— (. 'ountv instead of township favored as unit. ABSENT VOTERS LAW— Changes

Gov. McCray recommended to prevent abuse. REFERENDUM —Amendment to constitution providing a majority of votes east for a constitutional amendment shall be sufficient, instead of a majority of the entire electorate. LEGISLATIVE SESSlONS —Amendment to constitution providing for convening in second and fourth years of Governor’s term instead of the first and third. TAX REVIEW—I ,aw to give tax board power to make horizontal increases or decreases within counties. BOND ISSUES— Law to clear present provision concerning review of bond issues by the tax board. BUDGETS —PenaIty for officials who fail to publish budgets. STATE FUNDS —Establishment of only two—tuition and general—instead of many. INDUSTRIAL BOARD —Reduction of membership from five to three. COMBINING OFFICES —clerk of Supreme Court and reporter of court should be one job. AGRICULTURE —Board of agriculture should be State department.

PARIS PARLEY ENDS IN BREAK Disagreement Will Be Followed by Independent Action of France to Collect German Reparations Payments.

By United Preaa PARIS, Jan. 4. —The premiers’ conferences has ended in a disagreement. PARIS, Jan. 4.—The British delegation announced this afternoon that the premiers conference will end in a disagreement. This announcement came after the conferees had taken an adjournment for one hour, during which the delegates were to examine anew note just admitted by the British. Collapse of the conference has been threatened since its start, due to the fact that the British and French plans for collecting reparations from Germany were so divergent. A break-up would be followed. It is believed, by independent French action to collect and guarantee German payments. Premier Poincare of France stated to the conference that there was no use continuing, as It was evidently impossible to reach agreement on vital issues. He then suggested the adjournment of one hour to examine the British criticisms. Premier Poincare sharply criticised the British plan, which would reduce the indemnity to 50,000,000,000 gold marks and grant a four-year moratorium, and Premier Bonar Law flayed the project of the French, which suggests a two-year moratorium, no cut in reparations and productive guarantees. Wednesday's session only served to accentuate the difference between Great Britain and France and gave

patient alone. He prefers to have them all in one crowd where- he can speak to all of them at one time. There is here a point of crowd psychology. By getting us all together, he makes us act and react upon each other. Once In a while there is an exception. If some one !■ suffering from something that it would cause real embarrassment to discuss aloud, the patient is permitted to write down what is the matter with him or her i and hand the slip to Coue. Starts Work at Nine Nine o'clock. Prompt to the minute, Monsieur Coue enters for his first clinic of the day. He goes in a circle around the room, asking each of us something about our ills. Then he bids us close our eyes and

rise to predictions that only a disagreement was possible. Bonar Law, who outlined the British objections to the French proposal, declared that it was his idea that German credit must be restored. The Poincare plan, Bonar Law declared, would ruin Germany, which is already nearing an industrial collapse, and would precipitate a crash. The whole question, stated the British primo minister, is whether the al lies are willing to act as executors of Germany now and get a little, or run the chances of not getting anything later. NIKOLAI LENIN IS AGAIN CRITICALLY ILL Ity United Xeica LONDON, Jan. 4.—Nikolai Lenin, premier of Soviet Russia, is again critically ill, according to a Riga dispatch to the Daily Express. , The dispatch says that according to reliable information from Moscow, the premier lias again been disabled, probably permanently, as a consequence of suffering a third stroke of paralysis. SHIP SUBSIDY FIGHT IS AGAIN REOPENED By United Jfeaca WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. —The ship subsidy fight lias been reopened aftei a lapse of ten days. Senator Jones, Washington, sponsoi of the measure, lias announced that he will keep the hill before the Sen ate, as the unfinished business, until it is either accepted or rejected.

keep them closed until he orders us to open them. He assures us he wiU not put us to sleep. There is no attempt at hypnotism. He tells us that in each of us there is a conscious and an unconscious self. If we compare them we find that while the conscious self has a very unreliable memory, our unconscious self has a really marvelous memory which registers even (without our will, the slightest events the most unimportant facts of our lives. Furthermore, it is very credulous and accepts without reasoning what it is told. Matter of Belief As our unconscious self presides over the functioning of our organs by means of the brain, a queer thing

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 4, 1923

FIVE DEI I IN TRAGEDY ! ATJUNCIE Husband Shoots Wife and Three Children, Then Commits Suicide. RELATIVE FINDS BODIES Victims in Same Bed Apparently Had Been Killed While Asleep. Hy United Preaa MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 3.—Apparently suffering an attack of I temporary insanity today, William Miller, 30, shot and killed his wife and three children and then committed suicide. The tragedy was discovered by the mother of the murdered woman who visited the home and found the door locked. She called neighbors—the door was broken. Miller was lying on the floor in a bedroom with a revolver at his side. Mrs. Miller and the children evidently ; had been shot while sleeping. All were in the same bed. the body of the baby lying on its mother's arm. I A dinner pail packed with food in | dicated Miller had been preparing to ' go to work. Mrs. Laura Davis, a sister of Mrs. Miller, declared Miller appeared to be j in fear of some one for several days, I This fear is thought to have been 1 imaginary. There had been no domestic trouble. The wife, Pearl, was 30 years old. The children were Evelyn, 5, William, 3, and Robert, 11 months.

‘CHRIST lUIEDED IK OIPLUUGr Europe Wants Prayer Meeting, Says Evangelist at Keith’s. “What Europe needs today is not another election but to include Jesus Christ for once in Its diplomatic relations,” Dr. George Wood Anderson, evangelist at the Roberts Park M. E. Church, declared at today’s noon meeting at fl. F. Keith's Theater “All the pity of that great conference, where the greatest minds of England, France, Belgium and Italy are gathered. Is that they are quarreling like children over their toys. “What they need in Europe Is not another election but a prayer meeting.” he said. Dr. Anderson speaks at Ketth’s Friday noon and tonight at Roberts Park Church.

EASTEBiSTOBAAS BRUITS* Rain Tonight, Followed by Cold, Is Forecast. With a wet snow falling early today and the mercury hovering around the freezing point, the weather bureau predicted a continuance of the snow tonight, probably winding up with rain. The whole Northern Mississippi valley and Atlantic coast were being sprinkled with snow with Indiana, due to a couple of storm centers moving East, accompanied by low air pressure. Friday will see skies clearing and a lower temperature will prevail as the storm center moves on and higher air pressure causes the precipitation to cease, according to the bureau. ‘AG’ BOARD ELECTS The State board of agriculture has elected Harry M. Mobberly of Shelbyville. president; FI. W. Pickhardt of Huntington, vice president, and I. Newt Brown of FYanklin, secretaryl reasurer.

happens—if it believes a certain organ functions well or badly, that organ does really then function well or badly. This unconscious self not only presides over the functions of our organism but over the accomplishment of all our actions. This unconscious self is called imagination and it makes us act even in opposition to our will. In any conflict between will and imagination, the latter always wins. Treats an Appetite “Now-.” says Coue, "tell yourself that all the words I am now going to pronounce will be fixed In your brain, will be printed, engraved, encrusted there; that they will always stay there; and that without your wish-

M’CRAY’S MESSAGE ASKS GASOLINE TAX

Who's Who of Men at Helm in Present Session of Legislature

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Skett Iw-d by Manuel Ilos eiibcrg, Times staff artist. Three Kepubicans anil one Democrat probably will "run things” in the State Legislature this session. H* re they are:

EMMETT F. BRANCH, lieuten-ant-governor. He embarked today on his cruise in the Hoosier legislative seas. For four terms he was a member of the Lower House. As speaker of the House he was denounced as a czar hy his opponents and praised by friends as a man who accomplished things. This double reputation followed him to the Senate. With a Democratic representation in the Senate larger and more aggressive than two years ago. Branch probably will be called upon to exercise his powers to the limit. RAYMOND C. MORGAN, speaker of the House. He is a real dirt farmer in Henry County. Ho won his way to the speakership at the Republican caucus after a stubbornly contested four ballot fight against three competitors. The important work of appointing committees falls to him. JAMES J. NEJDL. It must seem odd to Nejdl to find himself leading

BELT RAILROAD ELEVATION TO BE SUBJECT OF RALLY South Side League Plans Meeting Next Wednesday. To enlist the aid of south side civic organizations and residents in a campaign to bring about the elevation of the Belt Railroad tracks over south side streets, plans for a rally meeting to be held next Wednesday evening are being made by the South Side Belt Elevation League. A legislative committee to meet with the board of public works and with the committees on the affairs of the city of Indianapolis in both houses of the Legislature will be named at the meeting. TWO AUTOS STOLEN Two automobiles were stolen last night.. Owners were Ralph L. Maver, of 308 Central Bank Building, Columbus, Ohio, and Charles D. Zeller, 1002 S. West St. SLUSS HEADS DOCTORS The Indianapolis Medical Society has elected IF. John W. Sluss president; Dr. William Molt, first vice president; Dr. Arthur Walters, second vice president; Dr. William A. Doeppers, secretary-treasurer.

ing it or knowing it, you yourself and your organism are going to obey. “So now 1 say to you; Every day, three times a day, at your usual meal times, you will be hungry, you will eat with great pleasure and without overeating. “You will masticate your food slowly so as to transform it into a kind of paste before you swallow it. “In this way you will easily digest your food and so will feel no discomfort or pain of any kind in your stomach or intestines. “You will as a consequence assimilate your food and your body yill make use of it to manufacture blood, muscle, force, energy. In a word—life. “I now add that your organs are functioning well. Your heart beats

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a Republican Senate majority. In past years he was the stormy petrel of the Senate and gave Republican leaders many sleepless nights. Frequently he strayed from the fold and went rampaging around with the opposition. Now Nejdl is floor leader for his party. He is a fighter who refuses to admit defeat, lie is a skilled parlimentarian. WALTER S. CHAMBERS, Democratic caucus leader, is chairman of the State committee. The Senator from Henry, Hancock and Madison counties appeared at the opening session wearing a smile that refused to come off. As State chairman he managed a campaign that resulted in the election of a Democratic United States Senator and large Democratic gains in the Legislature. “We have enough Democrats In the Senate to block a suspension of the rules and in the House we almost have a 60-60 break,” he said. “This year the Democratic minority will he a real factor."

BARK TAIL LIGHT CASES TOTAL 29 Forty-Five Others Charged With Lacking One Head Light. Twenty victims of the eagle eyes of Sergeants Halstead, Trimpe and Paul Taylor were to face trial in city court late today for falling to have tail lights complying with the State law. The trio not only arrested the tail light defendants, but also forty-five motorists whom they claimed had only one headlight burning, while cruising around Meridian and Washington and Illinois and Washington Sts., about 11 o’clock Wednesday night. Ten defendants pleaded guilty to “no lights” charges and paid fines of $2. They were; George F. Longster, 4427 Park Ave.; T. Sieloff, 1531 Montcalm St.; Harry R. Bash, 4034 Carrollton Ave.; Ben Broyles, 1556 Columbia Ave.; Earl J. Litton, 1701 Arsenal Ave.; Elliott B. Hadley, 1220 N. Illinois St.: Paul Eltzroth, Room 332. Morton Hotel; A. H. Opperman, 3558 Kenwood Ave.; Joe Givens, 1020 Superior St., and FI. L. Tyner, 1433 N. Oxford St.

normally and your blood circulates as It should. Your stomach, intestines, lungs, liver, kidneys and bladder are all functioning properly. Need of Self-Confidence “If up to the present time you have lacked confidence in yourself, this distrust will disappear and give place to confidence, based on this force of Incalculable power which Is In each one of us. “This self-confidence is absolutely necessary. When you wish to do some reasonable thing or when you have to perform a duty, think always that it is easy. Make the words ‘difficult,' ‘impossible,* ‘I cannot,’ disappear from your vocabulary.

Governor, Opening- State Legislative Session, Recommends Merging- of Boards for Economy’s Sake. REVISION OF FINANCES IS SOUGHT Executive Wants $2,000,000 for Reformatory— Favors County Units to Administer Public School Affairs. Economy in State affairs, an entire rearrangement of State finances, a tax on gasoline, amendment of the tax law making the tax board more powerful and amendment of the election laws were among important recommendations of Governor Warren T. Mc- ( ray in liis message opening the seventy-third General Assembly today. The Governor read his message at a joint session of the House and Senate in the House of Representatives.

Both Senate and House adjourned until 2 p. m., next Monday after brief sessions following the joint meeting. Lieutenant Governor Branch appointed Senators Swain of Madison County, Richards of Vigo, Nejdl of Lake, Chambers of Henry and Craven of Ohio and Switzerland on a rules committee to meet at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The Governor opened his message by telling the legislators “the people of Indiana demand a closed season on new legislation.” "They would like to see you come together, pass a few important and constructive laws, repeal many that now cumber the statute books and then adjourn." he said. Reviews Prison Deal The first recommendation was for a $2,000,000 appropriation for completion of the State reformatory at Pendleton. The Governor reviewed in detail the history of the sale of the present institution at Jeffersonville and legislation for removal of the reformatory. "It is the duty of the State to do its best to reform these men so they will not continue to be a permanent charge or a dangerous menace to society,” he said. “The plans contemplate the erection of buildings to house are care for 1.200 men and the amount of money required to complete this program as inaugurated by the trustees will be $2,000,000 and you will be asked to appropriate that amount.” The Governor, while recommending a tax on gasoline, did not suggest the amount. Wants Licenses Raised “It is not fair for the construction and maintenance of our highways to be supported by a general property tax when the benefit accrues largely to those who own and operate motor vehicles,” he said. The Governor asked that the license fees on motor cars, trucks and busses be Increased. He pointed out that Increased license fees and a gasoline tax would do away with the necessity for a property tax for roads. In making recommendations for changes in school laws the Governor followed in general the recommendations contained in the recent report of the school survey commission. He urged particularly that the county be made a unit for school administration. This would leave more than 1,000 township trustees with very limited duties. For Bounty Fait Plan In referring to the school survey report, the chief executive said: "I believe that of all the forceful and constructive improvements suggested by this report there is none that has more potential importance than the suggestion of the county unit plan of handling school affairs. I am firm in the belief that the adoption of this plan will mean more effeetlce work In the public school and therefore a better foundation upon which to build in case higher education is sought, or a more practical and dependable preparation for the stern duties and realties of life should the pupil close his school career with the completion of the eighth grade.” Continuing his message the governor said: “It has been demonstrated, beyond all question, that the absent voters’ law is subject to abuses of a most dangerous and serious character.” He recommended that the Legislature give this matter deliberate thought and careful attention. “I hope some practical way can be (Turn to Page 2)

“Say to yourself instead, *lt is easy and I can.’ By considering a thing easy, it becomes so for you, although it might seem the reverse for others. You will do it quickly and w-ell and without fatigue, because you have done it without effort.” , Coue said ail this and a good deal more In a monotonous but soothing voice. It cradled us all into drowsiness from which we emerged only w-hen he counted “one—two —three,” and told us now to open our eyes. Then he on<j,e more took up his discourse, enlarging upon the necessity of our repeating his famous formula; “Tousles jours, a tous points de vue, je vais mieux en raieux.” Which In English goes:

Forecast UNSETTLED with snow or rain and temperature near freezing tonight. Friday, fair and colder.

TWO CENTS

ACCUSED'S BREATH SNIEFED BYCBPS Judge Orders Official Smelling, Then Jails Man. “You’re drunk,” Judge * rank J. Lahr, juvenile court, told Theodore Munday, 55, grocer at 1728 Madison ave., today in juvenile court. “Judge. I haven't had a drink,” returned Munday, on trial for selling cigarettes to scuth side boys under 21, “You two policemen smell his breath," ordered Judge Lahr. Policemen E. C. Harms and J. W. Shine did so. After a couple of sniffs they announced their belief the judge’s suspicion was correct. “Take him to jail and set him bond at $500,” ordered the judge. Munday pleaded not guilty to the charge of contributing to the boys’ delinquency. He told the judge that the peculiar odor on his breath he eating breath perfumer. The boys were let off with suspended sentences during good beharvior aftei the judge lectured them on the evils attendant on cigarette smoking, calling attention to th® “weak eyes and pale cheeks” of one of their number as an object lessonPOLICE LAUD IDEE DISTIL* PLANT Seize Three Hundred Gallon Still and Accessories. One of the largest stills ever found in Marion County was seized by police today in a raid on a three-story building at 702 Madison Ave. The still had 300 gallons capacity and was complete in every detail, police said. Giuseppe Bomi, 24; Giovanni Mattel. 25; Giuseppe Mattel, 26, and Antonio Pergola, 20, were arrested on charges of operating a blind tiger. They were placed in jail in default of bond of $5,000 each. The raid was conducted by Lieut. Jones and Patrolmen Riley and Shaw. A large quantity of white mule, gin. creme de men the and mash was seized. G. 0. P. STATE COMMITTEE DISCUSSES 1923 PLANS Stuart T. Fisher of Princeton Is New Member. The line of action to be pursued by the Republican party in Indiana during 1923 was discussed at an all-day executive session of the Republican ‘State committee at the Hotel Severin today. The committee received a report showing the organization was out of debt. Stuart T. Fisher of Princeton, anew member, met with the committee for the first time. He succeeded Edgar Drury of Evansville,

"Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” Monsieur Coue said that covered everything. Therefore, he did not have to ask us all our symptoms. But the formula was more inclusive than that. It covered the physical, the mental and the moral side of things. One more mechanical formula. TVhen we had a pain, we should pass our hand rapidly over the aching part, repeating quickly and for a largo number of times the French words, “Ca passe”—“lt is going away.” And w-e would autosuggest the pain away. NEXT: Cone finds Bronner a stubborn patient.