Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 207

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‘KLAN ACTIVITY’ PROBES IN LOUISIANA MURDER CASES

Bp United Press COURTHOUSE. BASTROP, La_ Jan. I.—Activities of Ku-Klux Klan in Morehouse parish "will bo exposed in connection 'with open hearings into the torture-murders of Watt Daniel and ■ Thomas Richards, State cfikaalj declared today. The announcement -was made by Attorney Gen -ral Coco In outlining steps to be followed in the present inquiry Into how the mangled bodies of the two men oame to be found In the bottom of Lake EaFourcha. "Raids and night riding activities Jn which it is known that hooded members of the Ku-Klux Klan took part.” Coco said, "were gone into fully. “Some of these are masked night riders of which members of the Klan boasted openly. We are here to take up not only the foul murder of ’wo citizens of Louisiana, boat also every case in which the authority of I-ouisiana has been superseded In Morehou*“ parish by what is nothing short of super_gorvemment-" Chief among the night riding activities mentioned by the attorney general was the “kidnaping” last year of a young Bastrop girl. Addie May Hamilton, 19 years old. One night, while the father and brother were absent, a masked and hooded band surrounded the house, entered it and tore Ilia girl from her mother's arms. One report says that Mrs. Hamilton was knocked down by one of the hooded men. Addle May was sent to her sister's home in Little Rock, where she remained untD the day the troops reached Morehouse Parish at Governor Parker's order. On that day she returned to her parents here and has remained at home ever since. There was a curious tmderrmrreri of whispers rumored here today, on •. that the name of another woman wi i Ibe brought into the hearing. Indications today were additional arrests will

RASBi EULOGIZES DR. EMIL 181

IVL IVL Feuerllcht to Attend Funeral at Chicago. "Ur. Einil G. IRrsch. the noted Jewish rabbi who died in Chicago Sunday, was an Intellectual giant.” said Rabbi Morrris AL Feu*rliebi. head of the Indianapolis Hebrew oongregatlon. Rabbi Feuerllcht Will attend the funeral In Chicago Tuesday, ""With his death not only the Jews, but the entire country loses a‘great leader," Bald Rabbi Feuerlicht. "I was well acquainted with the rabbi, as I once studied under him. He was a great orator and scholar, "The religious note and not the racial was the point always emphasised by Dr. Hirseh, and the nation can well afford to mown," said Rabbi Feuerllcht. As pastor of the Siniua congregation for forty-three years. Dr, Hirseh was in great demand as a puljitt orator in all parts of the country. He was 71 year <-> old and Is survived Igr his widow and three dauglrterw.

THE WITHER

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be ordered by the State today and tomorrow. A recess today—the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans—gave the State an opportunity to complete plans for the wholesale arrests and other details of the hearing.

ROBBERTGHKRGE GRIiiGS SOLDIERS STIFF SENTENCES

Two Youths From Ft. Harrison Sent to Reformatory for 10 to 20 Years. Convicted of holding up a store owned by Sacks brothers at 316 Indiana Ava, Van Hesterson. 20, Prir.oeton, Ind.. and RusseU Smith, 20, Borneo, IIL, soldiers at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, were sentenced to from ten to twenty years at the State Reformatory by Julge James A. Collins in Criminal Court today. The hold-up occurred the night of Oct. 2. Witnesses said that nearly thirty shots were fired by Smith, Max Sacks, neighbors and police. Max Sacks, 2449 N. Alabama St., and Harry Racks, 926 S. Maple St-, his cousin, proprietors of the store, were fined $5 each when they delayed the trial forty minutes. Harry said he over-slept and Max told the judge his automobile had a fiat tire. Charles Heather, 20, of Mt_ Vernon, lIL, soldier, escaped with judgment withheld, when evidence showed that he had merely accompanied the other two into the store while ignorant of their purpose- All three of the soldiers had been drinking “mule” they had bought at the fort, Heathers said. During the hold-up, in which $67 •was stolen. Smith was shot by pollce-

JUDGE ANDERSON FREES BOGUS NAVY CAPTAIN

Virgin an Punished Sufficiently, Court Rules. William Ellis Newman of Roanoke, Ya., charged with impersonating a Navy officer, was released by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today. Newman said he had been In Jail more than a year and five months in Trento, N. J., and here. He admitted, he had represented himself to be "Capt. A, C. Carson of the submarine service. He said he had served fonr years in the Navy. Judge Anderson said he had been punished sufficiently.

FIVE COURTS ARE BUSY WITH JURIES ON DUTY

Hoorn One Only Civil Without dales men. Five of the six county courts Which handle civil cases tclay cot down to real after-Christmas work with Juries in the hex. Superior Court room 1 was occupied with a damage suit, as was the Circuit Court, and room 5 of the .Superior. The jury in room 3 began on a small suit for broach of contract and room 4 had three cases settled out of court, although the jury reported. Room 1 was the only civil court without a JhJT*

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Paris Sings War Airs —Tin-Hatted Troops Feted

‘Marseillaise’ Is Played in All Cases and Beautiful Girls Promenade Streets. ‘DER TAG’ NEAR AT HAND Only Complete Capitulation of, Germany Will Stay March Into Ruhr. By United .Yew* PARIS, Jan. “I)er Tag” of France is almost at hand. Forty-five thousand Poilus, garbed in “tin hats” and fully equipped with other accoutrements, are awaiting the trumpets’ blare that will start them on their march into Germany. Only one development, French officialdom holds, will slay the march i of the French soldiers and that is tho eompleto capitulation of Germany on the matter of reparations—almost an impossible realization. Tho ora cial day Is Jan. 15, when the next •Jvrman reparations payment is duo. Germany protests that she will be unable to pay. hut nevertheless France Is granting a final hearing before tho reparations commission. Berlin will then have Its last day. Peace Brings Hardship Peace. argue tho French, has brought difficulties —in a measure greater—than the war. Taxes have mounted enormously since tho treaty, of Versailles was signed. Most of the budget of the country has been turned over to restoration of devastated areas, which Germany, according to the terms of the Versailles peace treaty, should have reconstructed. Paris. Sunday night, assumed the aspect well-known to every member of the American expeditionary forces during tho World War. "The Marsellaise” was plaved in all the cases on the boulevards and the poUu—partially forgotten during the last few years—was feted in all places of merriment. Beautiful girls promenaded tho thoroughfares singing “Madelon,” the sentimental war song which has been more or less dormant since the signing of the peace treaty. The stand that Italy and Belgium will take In the present crisis h.is not . loon dourly determined. Belgium, It ' Is behoved, will send a small detach- : rnent of troops to aide tho French in occupying further German territory. It is anticipated that Benito Mussolini, premier of Italy, will sanction the French move, but not abet it with the ! dispatch of troops. French forces are constantly in ! creasing on the Rhine; horizon-bluo j uniforms and stool helmets are everywhere evident. Tho Gormans apparently are resigned to the French invasion and 'will i only offer passive resistance. Revenge Spirit Mounts Tho spirit of revenge against tho 1 French however, is visibly mounting as the Cordon of French troops draws in on Germany. The Germans vow they will bide the time until another I "tag.” Despite the fart that tho United States Senate has passed a resolution calling for tho withdrawal of American troops, nobody in the occupied area looks forward to immediate evacuation. One thousand picked American doughboys and one hundred officers present the most tangible and significant evidence that Uncle Sam is still sitting in on the European game. All elements, regardless of political or racial hostilities, consider the most vital safety valve to prevent a blow-up of the potentially volcanic Rhineland. \\ ithdrawal of American troops may overturn. It Is argued by many, what sense of balance still remains.

“lUS KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT GOES ON IN THE .MIND OF A YOUNG WOMAN IS UNCANNY. I WOULD BE AFRAID TO MEET HIM.” THIS IS WIIAT A WELL-KNOWN WOMAN NOVELIST SAID OF BOOTH TARKINGTON, FAMOUS INDIANAPOLIS WRITER.. AFTER READING lUS WONDERFUL PORTRAYAL OF A MODERN, SOCIALLY AMBITIOUS, A M E R 1 C A N GIRL IN HIS PRIZE WINNING STORY— Alice Adams This novel will be printed as the second in a series of novels by Hoofiler authors which The Indianapolis Times is publishing. Do not, by any chance, miss it. The first installment of “ALICE ADAMS” Stmts Tuesday, January 9th PHONE YOUR ORDER FOR THE TIMES TO MAIN 3500

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JAN. 8, 1923

Tarkington’s Sister Writes of Witches

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MILLIONS GO UP IN SMOKE LOSS

Every year $2,000,000 goee up in smoke in Indianapolis. Mayor Shank's committee on smoke abatement reported this fact today. The committee said authorities at Purdue University made tho ‘Wtimato for them. They recommended that the entire problem bo referred to Purdue for suggestions. Abatement of the smoke nuisance, according to the committee’s report, rests upon the following propositions: “1. That It is possible to burn bitum ‘nous coal without excessive smoke; however, it Involves both scientific and

SNOWFALL STOPS ST 0000 OF m

North Central Part of State Clears Sidewalks. While north Central Indiana was shoveling Its sidewalks clear of throe or four Inches of snow today, Indianapolis remained without a trace of snow. The snow area extended almost to Broad Hippie, but not a flake was visible in Indianapolis. The phenomenon of heavy snow in one place and none at all In nearby territory i3 an unusual one, according to J. 11. Armington, meteorologist. It is known to result, he said, when the temperature is Just at the point where a slight raise will crystalizo the moisture into snow flakes. A few flakes of snow fell in tho city Sunday night. The maximum temperature this morning was 08 degrees at Los Angeles while the minimum was 26 at St. Paul.

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practical problems concerning the boiler settings, dimensions of fur naves, draft measurements, dimensions of chimneys. Hues and stacks, study of grades of coal used, method of delivering coal to the furnaces, etc. Voluminous smoko often is due to lack of boiler capacity which necessitates the firing or the forcing through the furnaces of probably double the quantity of fuel that can possibly be perfectly consumed in order to make up the power deficiency. “2. That the city, before enforcing smoko prevention ordinances, must be In a position to determine the causes of excessive smoke and to advise as to the proper abatement of same. “3. That a strong public sentiment In favor of smoke abatement is an absolute necessity if satisfactory results are to be accomplished. This involves the cooperation of plant owners from the industrial standpoint and of citizens from tho domestic standpoint. “4. That there must be a proper organization for a practical and scientific Investigation, which organization should make definite recommendations for the abatement of smoke.” The committee Is composed of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the city board of health; Fi-ancis F. Hamilton, building commissioner; Lawrence V. Sheridan, executive secretary of the city plan commission; Councilman Otto Ray ami Mrs. J. VV. Moore, representing the Women’s Department Club.

$290,000 BOND THEFT REVEALED

Amount Secured in Safe Blowing Had Been Kept Secret. By United I’rcHX CHICAGO. Jan. B.—Robbery of S2OO, 000 worth of negotiable bonds from the real estate office of George Harding, city comptroller, was revealed by police today. Robbers blew Harding's safe last week and it was announced that only a small amount was taken. Authorities believed that by covering up the extent of the theft they would have a better opportunity to trace the robbers. Circulars giving the real facts of the thefts and description of the bonds were sent to police departments throughout the country today by Chicago authorities. COUE’S MOVEMENTS ARE KEPT SECRET Only One Representative of Press Will Attend Clinic. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 8. —A. censorship was clamped down today on the proceedings of Emile Coue. The French master of auto-sugges-tion who says he helps the sick heal themselves, worked behind a screen of secrecy, imposed by New York police. At his publicity headquarters, it was announced that one representative of the press would be permitted to attend Coue’s clinics and that this representative would later make a statement of what had occurred. ♦

Entered as Second-class Matter at Postoffiee, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

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First Short Story Dealing With Early American Life Published in Magazine.

Tarkington Jameson is the pen name of the author of “The Last Witch,” a leading story in the February issue of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Indianapolis knows her as Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson of 103."i N. Pennsylvania St. She Is a sister of Booth Tarkington. While the magazine containing Mrs. Jameson’s “first short story” was being prepared for distribution the author was ill at her home. Mrs. Jameson expects to continue writing short stories for magazines. Publication of her first story Is "proof that writing runs in the Tarkington blood,” tho magazine announces. Leaves ( curt I.ife The heroine of the story is Mary Newton, who left the court life of England in 1653 and went to the bleak coast of the new Puritan world— America. Mrs. Jameson introduces Mary Newton in a series of letters written by Mary to her friend, Elizabeth Baldwin, who remained in England. One letter tells of the pilgrimage to the new land. The last letter was written from the Puritan colony by Abigail Bradstreet Winslow, a goodly soul who also Journeyed to the new land. “The Last Witch” really is a series of dramatic letters relating the strange adventures f Mary in Salem, Mass., in 1653 when she was adjudged to be a witch because she healed the sick with the mixture of certain herbs and had “bewitched the heart of one Henry Bradstreet, who had heard Mary confess to "flying over the graveyards on moonless nights." Burning at Stake For this so-called practice of “black art,” Mary was found guilty by three judges and sentenced to be burned at the-stake In tho litter written by Abigail Bradstreet Winslow to I.udy Elizabeth. Mrs. Jameson roaches the heights of her story. Many was to be burned at the s’-ike. The day had arrived' The whole town was present! And then the flames were cheated.

SAFE, NAILED TO FLOOD.IS STOLEN

Filling Station Has Second Yegg Visit in Month, “Easy money," yeggmen probably remarked early today as they carried away a safe from the Pure Oil Company’s gasoline filling station. Central Ave. and Sixteenth St. In the safe was $175. Tho burglars also took a pay telephone. W. W. Jackson, 303 E. Twenty-Fifth | St., day man at the filling station, I called tho police. It was the second visit of the yeggmen to the filling station within four I weeks. On the first visit burglars carried away the safe, which was found i later at White River and Tenth St. with the doors battered open and the money gone. Tho police believe the same men returned and took the new safe. They had more trouble, however, than on the first visit, as the safe was nailed to tho floor. The safe was found this morning in the rear of 832 Fayette St., and tho telephone in a nearby structure. ! Both were broken open and the contents gone. EXPLOSION INJURES FIVE AND WRECKS PLANT Damage Is Estimated at SIOO,OOO in Gasoline Blast. By United News PONTIAC, Mich., Jan. B.—Five men were seriously injured when a gasoline tank in the plant of the Michigan Drop Forge Company exploded here today. The plant was wrecked. Damage was estimated at SIOO,OOO. Fire which followed the explosion threatened the plant of the Wilson Foundry and Machine Company. NEW YORK SWEPT BY HEAVY BLIZZARD Drifting Snow Blocks Streets and Hampers Traffic. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 8. —A blizzard swept New York and surrounding territory, badly hampering traffic, blocking streets with drifting snow and causing accident* that resulted in casualties. Several persons were hurt In traffic accidents. WILL SERVE CAPIASES Capiases will be served on five Indiana defendants under indictment at Cleveland, Ohio, for alleged violation of the Sherman anti-trust act, tomorrow. They are charged with combining to control supply, distribution and prices in the window glass Industry, together with individuals and companies throughout the United States.

Cavalry Patrols Enter Dusseldorf and City Is in State of Excitement Over Sudden Invasion. •

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS ARE RUSHED Poilus Prepare for March Into Germany— Engineers and Rail Workers Dispatched to Essen in Ruhr District. | By United Press BERLIN, Jan. B.—Fifteen hundred fresh French troops arrived at Dusseldorf Sunday and demanded accommodations, the mayor of the city notified the government today. Three hundred automobiles were cominendored by the troops, i Two schools and a part of the bureau of finance were demanded as quarters for three hundred officers, the mayor reported. The town is in a state of excitement. Tanks and cavalry [ patrol the streets. German officials believe troops will be sent forward to Ease, immediately.

The French commander at Mainz has asked the British to transfer I military control of tho Cologne bridgehead to the French, according I to Derr Tag. The British refused ponding comI munication with London, it was said. French troops from Dusseldorf will i move into Essen, where the great | Krupp works are located the newspaper says.

Engineers and Railroad Workers Enter Essen With Infantry Support

By United Press COBLENZ, Jan. B. —French troops Avere on the march today along the Rhine. Engineers and a detachment of railway workers have gone to Essen, first city to be seized as France takes steps to enforce reparations payments.

Two regiments, ore of artillery, one of Infantry, have been ordered forward from Epinal. Troops are quietly concentrating at Dusseldorf in small detachments. Fast tanks and armored cars will form the advance guard, it is reported, when actual invasion of the Ruhr starts. All that was needed to put in motion the horizon blue machinery of war which France has drilled and kept so long throughout the Rhineland was word from Paris that the reparations commission had formally found Germany in default. Infantry Supports Engineers Infantry, it was believed, ther would bo rushed to Essen to support the engineers and railway detiiehn.ents, and from that center French troops would spread through the Ruhr valley. For all this businesslike attitude and the pulse of war drugs along the Rhine border, it was believed France would proceed cautiously and that actual invasion cannot yet be said to have begun. France wants to learn more of America’s intentions regard(Tura lo Page 2)

PRISON DELUXE, DEMOCRATS SAT

Stats Committee Assails Reformatory Appropriation. An attack on the proposed appropriation of $2,000,000 to be applied to the cost of erecting the Indiana Reformatory is contained in publicity stories sent out by tho Democratic State committee. The stories refer to the reformatory as a “prison de luxe.” The stories declare that plans and supervision alone will cost $200,000, half the amount the State received for the old Jeffersonville prison. The Democratic committee points out that the buildings "are to be faced with ‘buff, mat-faced brick’ to be bought of a certain comparfy in Brazil at $27 a thousand. The State has a fine brick plant at the penal farm and can turn out a million brick every six weeks. The State could have bought the brick at the penal farm and saved more than half the cost. • FIVE FIREMEN INJURED By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. B.—Five firemen were injured by a falling wall in a fire which destroyed the Yale building early today. Damage was estimated at $250,000.

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United Press COLUMBUS, Ind„ Jan. B. Awakened by whisky dripping in his face, W. C. Robertson opened his mouth. Then he called the police. Investigation disclosed two one-gallon jugs of white mule in the room overhead. One had tipped over. Joseph Pierpont was arrested on a charge of possessing liquor.

Forecast U UNSETTLED weather tonight and Tuesday. Probably rain. SomeAvhat warmer tonight. Colder Tuesday.

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Railroad officials in the occupied territories notified the German government that a dozen troop-trains had been ordered for today. Twenty-four trains were also ordered for tomorrow for troop movements. An unconfirmed rumor reached the government that the Poles simultaneously with the French advance will close the Danzig border.

SPEAKER REFUSES TO CUE ADVANCE COMMITTEE LIST

Situation Tense as House Reconvenes—Leaders Visit Governor. The situation in the House of Representatives resulting from difficulties among Republicans over the appointment of committees Avas tense as the Legislature reconvened this afternoon. Raymond C. Morgan, speaker of the House, refused to follow the usual custom of allowing newspapers to have the names of committees in advance and announced no one would know Avho was named until the names were read on the floor. The same procedure was being followed by Lieutenant Governor Emmett F. Branch. Morgan Visits Governor Speaker Morgan was called to the GoA-ernor’s office for a last-minute conference before the reopening of the session. J. Glenn Harris, who, it is understood, has been refused the place of chairman of the education committee, was also in conference with the Go\-ernor. but not at the same' time as Morgan. “I may be licked,” Harris said when he left the Governor’s office, “but I will not be inactive.” Representative Luke W. Ruffey, Avho has been refused appointment as chairman of the roads committee, also was at the Statehouse. Indications were that the party squabble Avould break out into the open on the floor of the House. Charges we re expected to be made that school book interests Avere back of the difficulties OA-er the appointment of the education committee. Orders From Party Chiefs Representative Elmer Waters, who styled himself as "flunkey” for Speaker Morgan, said the secrecy concerning the announcement of the committee appointments AA'as a result of orders of the State committee and of GoA’ernor McCray. "Are orders concerning the appointments of committees coming from the State committee and the Governor?” he A\’as asked. “It would certainly be strange if we did not consult the Go\ f ernor and the State committee on who is to make up the committees," he answered. "Do you wish to be quoted as saying the Governor and the State committee are dictating the action of the speaker concerning committee appointments?” he was asked. “You can print AV’hat you please,” was the reply. Lyons Denies Orders Lawrence Lyons, chairman of the Republican State committee, denied any orders had come from the committee. A similar denial came from the GoA’ernor's office. The appointment of committees was expected to be the first order of busi- • • :-s at the afternoon session in each house. This was to be followed in the House by the introduction of a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO to pay the expenses’ of the session.