Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1923 — Page 1

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WIFE Era Os ME BV SIMM Nlrs. Evelyn Hoiiis Tells Police She Fired Pistol to Save Son. “While Pearl Hollis, 38, of 1103 N. Keystone Ave. : who was at the City hospital today, told police a bullet wound above his right knee was the result of an accident, his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Hollis, 34, asserted, according to police, she shot her husband in defense of their son, Kenneth, 15. Mrs. Hollis, released on her own recognizance, told police her husband returned home at 1 a. m. under the influence of liquor and demanded that 6he take a drink with him. When she refused he struck her and called her names, she charged. Boy Hears Screams Kenneth Hollis heard his mother’s screams and went to her assistance, according to her story to police. Hollis struck the boy several times and then followed him upstairs, Mrs. Hollis is quoted as sating. She said Bhe obtained an automatic pistol from a dresser drawer and intended to frighten her husband by firing into the floor. The bullet struck him. Hollis called a taxi and left the house, Mrs. Hollis said. She telephoned to police. Sergeant Walter Coleman end the emergency squad investigated. The son told the same story as that told by Mrs. Hollis. Another son, Donald, 5, knew nothing of the case. lloll's Arrested Motor Policemen Dillane and Oakley found Hollis at the Colonial Hotel. He was arrested on charges of assault and battery, intoxication and operating a blind tiger. The latter charge was the result of the finding of a bottle containing a little white mule in the Hollis home, police said. Hollis, who was held under $5,000 bond, was taken to police headquarters and later to the detention ward of the city hospital. Hollis is manager and part owner of the Peerless Cleaners Company, 2303 E. Tenth St. Police say they were told he had not been living at home. since September, but called there occasionally. 28 SllLlssiNG INERIDGETRAEEDY Toll of Suspension Structure Collapse Continues Indefinite. By United Press KELSO, Wash., Jan. 5. —Three dead and twenty-eight known missing was the toll of the Kelso bridge collapse today. One body was recovered from the river and two men died from injuries received when the structure plunged into the flood waters of the Cowllta River. Authorities believed that many persons not reported missing lost their lives as scores of transients and strangers havs” been in the vicinity since construction work started on the new hotel here. Pour automobiles* were recovered from the wreckage of the bridge, but no bodies were found. Divers continued to work in the piles of twisted timbers and cables while posses patrolled the river banks. River vessels were also dragging the river in an effort to recover bodies. EMMET CLUB TO PREPARE FOR TRIBUTE ON BIRTHDAY City’s Oldest Irish Organization Will Install Office. The Emmet Club, the oldest Irish organization in the city, will hold its annual installation of officers Friday evening at Morrison hall and will make arfhngements for the annual celebration of Robert Emmet’s birthday with the usual banquet on March 4. to which prominent speakers will be invited. The committee consists of W. H. Foley, D. J. Sullivan, T. J. McCarthy, J. J. Liddy and Hugh Davey. BOY SURPRISES THIEF Police today were searching for a thief who entered the home of H. A. Romm, 1601 Ashland Ave., yesterday. Robb’s son surprised the prowler, a negro, who ran. Nothing was stolen. THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is unsettled tonight and Saturday with probably snow. Lowest temperature tonight 25 degrees. Colder Saturday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 28 10 a. m 32 7 a. m 2911 a. m 32 8 a. m........ 30 12 (noon) ....... 82 6 a. m. . . 31

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ENGINE KILLS MAN IN AUTO Watchman Due at Oaklandon R ail Crossing Ten Minutes After Fatal Accident—Victim Carried on Pilot.

If Charles W. Kolthoff, 40, traveling salesman, 1416 Sturm Ave , had been ten minutes later this morning he might be living. He was killed at 6:50 a. m. when west-bouAd Big Four passenger train No. 7 struck his coupe at the Oaklandon crossing. Just east of Ft. Benjamin Harrison. He was hurled 160 feet. Ten minutes later a flagman went on duty at his regular time. The crossing has neither warning bell nor gates, according to Dr. J. C. Kneer, deputy coroner. Kolthoff’s widow, notified by Dr. Kneer, rushed to the scene of the tragedy. The body was found on the pilot of the engine, which went 400 feet before it could be stopped by Engineer Lee Usey of Indianapolis. The victim's skull was fractured and his hip broken. Kolthoff, who was employed by the Heinz Coffee Cos. of Cincinnati, had just left the grocery of Paul Walton. Apparently he did not see the train.

Booth Tarkington’s Story of ALICE ADAMS Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the Best American Novel of the Year Second in the Series of Fiction by Hoosier Authors to Be Published in The Indianapolis Times. First Installment Appears Tuesday, January 9th “Alice Adams” is a study of an American family during the evolution of a small town into a big city, a family left behind in the remorseless pace of the change in community life. It is a story of the family’s attempts to catch up socially and financially, and how, in the person of the daughter, it finally set out on a quiet road of its own, a quest not of pursuit, but of a firmer and finer reality. In particular it is the story of Alice Adams, a “smart” girl and “right pretty" girl, worthy of a leading position in society, but lacking what Mrs. Adams called “background,” a fine house to entertain in, ample wardrobe, and the other things only wealth makes possible. Splendidly drawn as the other characters are, they hold a subordinate place to the brilliant achievement of Alice Adams herse f, vital, alluring, capable of romance, but equally capable of reality, a heartening portrait of young American womanhood. Order The Times Today

which goes through Oaklandon at high speed. Dr. Kerr notified the local Masonic relief board. Kolthoff was a member of the West Side Chapter of the Masonic Lodge and of Itaper Commandery, Knights Templar. LOCAL MAN TO BUILD APARTMENT IN FLORIDA Thomas Kean Plans Structure at Lake Worth. Thomas Kean, 701 E. Twenty-First St., Indianapolis, announced his intention of erecting on lots he owns near Lake Worth, Fla., and facing the Royal Poinciana Hotel of Palm Beach, a thirty-six apartment building across the lake. He also is planning a large year-round hotel on an adjacent lot. Work on the apartment house will begin immediately, Kean announced.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JAN. 5, 1923

Alxjve is a pen-and-ink sketch of the opening session of the Indiana House of Representatives, drawn by Manuel Rosenberg, special staff artist of the Indianapolis Times, while Gov. Warren T. McCray was delivering his message to the seventythird General Assembly Thursday. The Senate was meeting in joint session with the House. Behind the Governor are seated Speaker Raymond C. Morgan and Lieut. Gov. Emmett F. Branch.

SHAKE-UP CERTAIN IN SCHOOL BOARD Cadd and Emhardt Are Favorites for Presidency. That radical changes In the organization of the board of school commissioners will be made at its meeting Tuesday night appeared certain today. Officers for the year will be named, and it is an assured fact that Charles L. Barry will not be re-elected president, observers said. Either Bert S. Gadd or Adolph Emhardt will bo named president, it is said. If Emhardt Is named, Gadd almost certainly will succeed to the chairmanship of the important buildings and grounds committee. He held this position throughout 1921. During the past year factional alignments on the board have changed completely. At the beginning of the year President Barry was the outstanding figure on the board, while Gadd was an outsider. Friction soon developed, but Dr. Haslep, Emhardt and Gadd began to act in harmony and have dictated the policy of the board ever sisnce. Rumors that Walter J. Twmame, business director, will be forced to resign have been in circulation for some time. For several months there has been a noticeable tendency on the part of the majority members of the board to criticize Twiname's actions and to make changes in his recommendations. CHICKEN THIEVES PROFIT Chicken thieves operated during the night. Mrs. Ned Johnson, 3002 Kenwood Ave., reported five Buff Orpington chickens stolen. Mrs. H. J. Vann, 1135 W. Thirty-First St., said six chickens were missing from her coop. Homer Huffey, 3663 W. Michigan St., told the police fifteen chickens were stolen from his coop. PEDESTRIAN HIT Eli A. Abbott, 61, of 5054 E. Michigan St., was bruised by an automobile driven by Clarence Rodgers ,23. of 404 Parker Ave., at Michigan St., and Tacoma Ave. early today. SUIT AND GOLD SWAG A burglar ransacked the home of J. G. McVey, 1244 Burdsall parkway, the police were told today. A suit of clothing valued at $42 and a sl6 bracelet are missing.

22 BELIEVED DEAD IN RIOT

Battle Threatens as Hundreds of White Men, Heavily Armed,

Surround Barricaded Negroes in Florida.

By United Press ROSEWOOD, Fla., Jan. s.—Five persons were known dead and at least seventeen others were believed killed in race rioting which broke out here last night. Two of the dead were white men wno Joined a posse at Sumner to punish negroes for attacking a white girl. Many of both races were wounded in the fighting last night and today. The men killed in last night’s ing included Henry Andrews, logging superintendent of the Cummer Lumber Company of_ Sumner, and Boly Wilkerson, storekeeper.

LOVE SET FORTH AS TODAY'S NEED Evangelist Commends McCray for Message. Declaring that Governor McCray In his message to the Legislature “sounded the keynote of the situation” when he said not more laws, but firm loyalty to the laws now in existence, is needed. Dr. George Wood Anderson, evangelist at the Roberts Park Church, at noon today at Keith’s Theater made a plea to ail people to observe the laws of the State and the constitution of this country. "Tenderness always goes with greatness,” Dr. Anderson said. “The church of the living God today will find its recruits where it is least expected. When we get to Heaven we shall discover how little human opinions count. "We shall win the world not by war, but by love.”

Against Whom Is France Arming?

This is one of the questions discussed by LLOYD GEORGE, former war premier of Great Britain, who is contributing special articles to the Indianapolis Times. Another of the Lloyd George series will be published IN THIS PAPER TOMORROW. In it he tells frankly cf the impor-

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The rioting, an outgrowth of an attack on a young white girl, flared when men from Sumner went to Rosewood and Joined a posse hunting one of the negroes, sought for the attack. The negroes refused to give up the suspect, secreted in the negro belt. The posse stormed the hiding place. The attackers were repulsed when the negroes opened fire at close quarters. Wilkerson, and Andrews, fell dead. A score of other beseigers were wounded. The battle lasted more than an hour with both sides entrenched in buildings. Hundreds of shots were exchanged.

MISS HOPE FULLER IS KEPT AS COUNTY NURSE Commissioners Make Reappointment at Session. Mias Hope Fuller, present county nurse, was reappointed to the position today by County Commissioners Albert Hoffman and John Kitley. The appointment was made at the request of the executive board of the ParentTeacher Association. Harry Tutewifer, Hoffman's fellow Republican on the board, failed to sign the appointment, although present. BANKRUPTCY PLEA FILED AGAINST PACKING FIRM Liabilities of Morgantown Company Said to Be About §35,000. An involuntary petition In bankruptcy was filed against the Morgantown Packing Company of Morgantown in Federal Court today. Thomas P. Hessong, 3446 N. Meridian St., is president of the company. The petition was signed by Alpha Cherry, George W. Boling and Joseph Hurst, all of St. Paul, Decatur County. The liabilities of the company were alleged to bo about $35,000.

French Army Mobilizes Along- Rhine Preparatory to Military Move Against Germany Following Parley Break. U. S. TROOPS MAY BE WITHDRAWN Italy and Belgium Will Stand With Ally in Expected Occupation of Ruhr Valley —Crisis Comes January 15. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jail, s.—The American troops on the Rhine may be withdrawn in the near future, Secretary of War Weeks declared today after the meeting of President Harding and his Cabinet, at which the precarious European situation brought about by the collapse of the premiers’ conference in Paris was discussed. Weeks stated that no orders had been to General Allen, commander of the American forces, but said that “there is a prospect of ordering the soldiers home in the near future." By United Press PARIS, Jan. s.—Premier Poincare conferred twice last night and again this morning with General Maginot regarding Marshal I och s plan for eventual military action against Germany, to collect and guarantee reparations payments.

French forces were being mobilized along the Rhine on orders from General Degruette. No military action against Germany will be taken, however, until orders are received from Paris. France planned conferences with Belgium and Italy, looking to a possible joint move to collect reparations from Germany. Great Britain will not be ivited to this conference, if one is arranged. The crisis will come Jan. 15 when the next reparations payments by Germany fall due. The Cuno government is expected to ask a moratorium and Italy and Belgium, as well as France, are opposed to this. Belgium already has agreed to joint action by the three countries on the basis of Poincare’s plan rejected by the British, and Italy, leaning more

Fate of American Proposal to Allies Rests With France

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—-The fate of the American proposal for a commission Or conference of experts to recommend a German reparations figure now rests squarely with France. Military action by the French against Germany will result In a strong protest from this government, it was learned officially. It also would result in a strong demand in Congress for the immediate withdrawal of the army of occupation, as recently proposed by Senators Johnson, California, and Reed, Missouri. The proposal of the United States is before the French government and this country is waiting for a reply as to whether the plan Is accept-

RESLATED AFTER GETTING RELEASE Charles Morton Held as Dope Peddler After Habeas Corpus. Released from jail by order of Judge Clinton A. Givan in Superior Court, Room 4, after a hearing on habeas corpus proceedings, Charles Morton, colored, 40, of 1526 N. Capitol Ave., was re-arrested as he stepped through the courtroom door. Morton, who said he was a resident of Buffalo, N. Y., was held under vagrancy charges suspected of being implicated in the “drug ring” discovered here. After his second arrest he wss taken to police hi idquarters and slated with ■violation of the United States drug act. Bottles of morphine taken by the officers at the home of Fannie Witherspoon, 412 W. Vermont St., last Tuesday were exhibited during the hearing. William C. Miller, 40, of 1419 N. Senate Ave., testified that Morton gave him the drugs to deliver to the Witherspoon house. Judge Givan stated that he would find for Morton on his plea, as Lieut. Orville Hudson testified that he was working for Dr. Oscar Jones, 1831 W. Washington St., at the time of his arrest. Morton's attorney was Miss Jesse Levy. The case of Fannie Witherspoon, arrested on a charge of operating a blind tiger, was dismissed in city court. Henry Kelly, 412 W. Vermont St., arrested on a similar charge, was fined SIOO and costs.

tance of disarmament in Europe and warns of new militaristic perils. Lloyd George’s views are particularly vital at this moment because of the breakup in the conference of allied premiers at Paris. They could not agree on a plan to collect the spoils of the last war. You want to read and study the Lloyd George articles.

Forecast T JNSETTLED tonight and LJ Saturday, with probably snow. Lowest temperature 25 degrees. Colder Saturday.

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toward France than toward England, is expected to agree. Premier Poincare instructed Louis Barthou to call an immediate meeting of the reparations commission for notification of Germany’s alleged default in coal payments. John Bradbury, British member of the reparations commission, resigned. Two sessions therefore must be held under the Varsailles treaty to allow sufficient time for all to have a voice in the arrangements. Then, well informed observers believe, the march on the Ruhr will begin. French troops along the Rhine will be reinforced, it is believed, and an advance guard will push into West Phalla and occupy the richest German coal country.

able to France, It was declared authoriatlvely at the State Department today. Because of the grave situation facing Europe, definite action by the United States toward the submission of the reparations problems to a commission of experts as recently proposed by Secretary Hughes, may be taken in a few days. Meanwhile Germany, said to have been driven to a state of despair, may make some important move to inform the world that she will never submit to the proposed drastic French program of economic and military coercion. The following will be the program of the American Government in the present crisis, the United Press is in a position to state: 1. Secretary Hughes will revive the informal nominations that he carried on for some time before the Paris conference for an international commission to recommend a Just and practicable reparations figure for Germany to pay. 2. If the various countries interested are found to be agreeable to plan, an invitation will be issued by Washington or some other government for the assembling of the conference or commission. 3. If any country continues to block the American plan for a settlement of the reparations crisis, this Government, through Secretary Hughes, will make plain to the world the attitude of the United States on' the whole question, not attempting to hide where the responsibility for the present situation lies.

DRIVER IS ACCUSED OF BEATING FALLEN HORSE Willis Jenkins Charged With Cruelty to Animals. . Because of the slick streets the horse which was drawing a ton of coal in a wagon driven by Willis L. Jenkins, 21, of 415 Kentucky Ave., was unable to make the incline on Kentucky Ave. at Missouri St. The horse slipped, and fell to the street. Jenkins began to beat the horse, it is charged. Police were called. Jenkins was charged with cruelty to animals.

BOYS LEAVE HOME Police were requested today to search for Harold Gilpner, 13, of 422 Harris St., and Carroll Henderson, 15. of 300 S. Holmes Ave., who were reported to have run away from home.