Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1923 — Page 1

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GERMANY DEFAULTS PAYMENT France Has Most Modern War Machine Ever Known Ready for Action— Advance Guards at Essen. Bn United Press . . PARIS, Jan. 9.—France held the most modern war machine ever known ready for action today as Germany formally was found guilty of default. Censorship almost like that of war time shrouded troop movements along the Rhine, but it was impossible to conceal the cavalry, artillery, infantry and an immense array of the most up-to-date airplanes and tanks which for several days has been pushed up to the Rhineland borders.

TERRORISTS HIES iIS KLAIiSMEH Witness Declares Black Hoods Worn by Ku-Kluxers When on War Path. By United Press _ COURT HOUSE. BASTR(>P, La~, Jan. 9. —The black masks worn by the booed men who kidnaped and murdered Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards were identified at the investigation today by James T. Norseworthy, former official of the Klu-Klux-Klan as the, “terror of the Kl&n." Norseworthy declared the black hood was part of the r>galla. of the Klan- H" said the white hood was worn in meeting and ceremonials, but that when Klansmen were on the “war path” they wore the black hood. A reign of terror has resulted from the operations* of the klan. Norseworthy declared. Norseworthy, former captain of the klan in Mer Rouge, identified also the “vigilance committee of Morehousw Parish” as part of the klan. The vigilance committee has been blamed by many for ki Inc pings and violence In the parish, but before 't had not been linked directly with the klan. It was thought to be a separate and distinct organization. “The committee went around the parish and found things and reported to the icyclops, and if he saw fit he nrderetS action,” sa’d Norse worthy. i FIERY CROSS IN LOT Flames from a burning wooden cross placed in a vacant lot at Tacoma Ave. and New York Ft. lighted up the neighborhood at 10 p. m. Monday. The large wooden cross was covered with oil-soaked rags. Firemen put out the blaze. THE WEATHER Considerable precipKati n has occurred in the I writes region from the upper and middle Mississippi valleys tit the Alleghenies and some rains and snows have occurred in the Northwest. It is colder over the plains States and temperatures of zero to 20 below are reported from parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. In other parts of the country the changes in temperature have not been decided over large areas. At 7 p. m. Monday the snow cover in the central valleys extended southward over lowa, northern Illinois and and northern Indiana. The coldest temperature this morning was 8 above at Bismarck. N. D.. while the maximum was 63 at Los Angeles. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m. 3210 a. m 32 7 a. m........ 3211 a. m........ 32 8 a. m. 3312 (noon) 32 9 a. m........ 33

‘Alice Adams’, Booth Tarkington’s Prize Story, Starts Here

Copyrisht. 1021. by Doubleday. Faffo & Cos. CHAPTER I THE patient, an old-fashioned man, thought the nnrse made a mistake in keeping both of the windows open, and her sprightly disregard of his protests added something to his hatred of her. Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption ought to realize that night air was bad &>r the human frame. “The human frame won’t stand everything, Miss Perry,” lie warned her. resentfully. “Even a child, if it had just ordinary gumption, ought to know enough not to let the night air blow on sick people—yes, nor well people, either! ‘Keep out of the night air, no matter how well you feel.’ That’s what my mother used to tell me when I was a boy. ‘Keep out of the night air, Virgil, ’ she’d say. ‘Kes> out of the night air.’ ”

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Silently, speedily and with as much secrecy as possible, the French guar-anty-seizing forces have been concentrated. One hundred French engineers, besides Belgians and Italians, were to go first, it was reported, with the armed forces ready at Dusseldorf and nearby cities if needed. German mines and factories were not to be interferred with, according to plan recently • •utlined by Premier Poincare. The French proposed merely to throw a customs barrier between Germany and the rich Ruhr coal fields and collect sums due in reparations through , French customs houses. ADVANCE GUARDS ARRIVE NEAR ESSEN By United Press BERLIN, Jan. 9. —Advance guards I of French troops under General lie Goutte have arrived at Kettwig, near | Essen, according to a dispatch from i the latter city. Citizens of Essen were surprised i that the French did not enter during the night. Railroads and hotels were ready to receive them. VOTE OF DEFAULT IS THREE TO ONE By United Press PARIS, Jan. 9. —The reparations commission, by a vote of three to one. today found Germany voluntary in ilefault of .coal payments to France during 1922. The reparations commission notified the French government of the default and it was semi-ofiieially stated action will follow almost immediately, possibly tomorrow. American Observer Boyden made a statement to the commission before it took a wvote. He refused to divulge its nature, but stated he made no reservations. Fir John Bradbury, British representative voted against the finding. This is the necessary technical action which was to precede French invasion of the Ruhr valley and occupation of Essen. Marshal Foch's military plans waited upon action by the allies finding Germany in default. France, backed by Belgium and Italy, made speedy finish of the reparations commission’s sitting today. Ten German experts had succeeded in delaying matters yesterday by haranguing ail afternoon, but today they were called speedily to account and the vote France asked of the commission was taken. By the vote Germany is found to have wilfully defaulted in amounts of coal that should have been delivered to France during the past year. The Germans claimed they delivered so much they were forced to Import other coal themselves. The French clapped immediate censorship, applying to foreign as well as local newspaper correspondents, upon forecasts of what France will do. But the press agrees that invasion Is practically at hand. It is expected that the French will not wait until Thursday, when Premier Poincare ad- | dresses the chamber of deputies, before acting. He may present occupation of Essen as an accomplished fact. KAPPES TO HEAR DEBATE ON GAS RATE FINDINGS Tentative Report to Be Argued Before Master in Chancery. Arguments on the tentative report in the gas rate case prepared by W. P. Kappes, master in chancery, will be heard by the master tomorrow. In the report Kappes found that the Citizens Gas Company was entitled to a rate of 51.25 a 1,000 cubic feet. In reaching this conclusion ho accepted the contention of the company that replacement; value of the physical property' of the company, less 15 per cent for depreciation, was tho proper basis for compting rates.

How Teutons View ‘Pressure’ By United Press BERLIN, Jan. 9.—France's proposed seizure of Essen would constitute “a breach of the treaty” as an “act of force against a defenseless people,” Chancellor Cuno said ’today in an interview with American correspondents. He condemned France's course and simultaneously renewed Germany’s offer of a peace pact. „ The chancellor emphasized Ger many’s calm view of France’s movements, adding: “We shall not forever bow to force, and we cannot forever yield to threats and thus go into the abyss. The allies in Paris did not desire to hear our proposals and could not agree to their own. The solution has again been postponed. Certain French circles apparently really believe that reparations can be obtained through force. The German people, If necessary, will walk the road of suffering, but they will not deal under pressure and threats.”

PASTOR’S WIFE NAMES 112 CO-RESPONDENTS All Were ’Patients’ of Leader of ‘Healing Church.’ By United Press PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Jan. 9.—Min rue L. Englehart named 112 co-respond-ents in her suit ror divirce from Adolph Englehart, leader of a “healing church.” All the co-respondents were “patients,” she says. ORPIiSIGE FOUND II POOR SHAPE County Board Urges Action Immediately. On rainy days the Colored Orphans’ Home “is more like a home for animals than human beings,” according to a report by the Marion county board of charities and corrections. The report was sent Judge 11. O. Chamberlain of the Circuit court and to the board of county commisloners. The home is located at Boulevard PI. and Twenty First Ft. Capacity. fifty children, but the committee reported that there were sixty-four “cooped up” in the place Dec. 11, the day of inspection. There was thirtynine l>oys and twenty-five girls. “There Is no place for these children to play except a little tnudhole of a yard,” read the report. “The doors of the homo fit so badly that It is like trying to heat an outdoor yard with a furnace.” “We cannot urge the county commissioners too strongly of the need to do something at once.” “In our opinion, tho home should not be relocated inside tho city limits. Twenty-five acres in the country! would be best.” The commissioners said they would “get the place attended to by next year, anyhow and that no ground has been bought yet.’’ DAUGHERTY WINS HOUSE 500011151 Committee Report Absolves Attorney General of Charges. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. The House Judiciary Committee today adopted a report exonerating Attorney General Daugherty from the impeachment charges filed by Representative Keller, Minnesota. At tho same time the committee decided to leave to a decision on the floor of the House the question of whether Keller should bo punished and the rules for his refusal to appear before the judiciary Committee and give testimony. POLICE FIND CHINESE GIN IN COAST RAID By United Xrics LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9.—Acting on a tip from a woman who declared she had seen Clara Phillips, the escaped hammer murderess, the police staged a huge raid in the Los Angeles Chinatown lato Monday. Although the police did not find Clara, they discovered 600 gallons of Chinese gin, forty cases of Chinese wine and a big still.

‘‘l expect probably her mother told her the same thing,” the nurse suggested. “Os course she did. My grandmother ” “Oh, I guess your grandmother thought so, Mr. Adams! That was when all this flat central country was swampish and hadn’t been drained off yet. T guess the truth must been the swamp mosquitoes bit people and gave ’em malaria, especially before they began to put screens in tlipir windows. Well, we got screens in these windows, and no mosquitoes are goin’ to bite us; so just you be a good boy afld rest your mind and go to sleep like you need to.” “Sleep?” he said. “Likely!” H* thought the night air worst of all in April; he hadn’t a

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 9, 1923

TWO BILLS TO REPEAL PRIMARY INTRODUCED

Him SLiISSED SI BliiTS Robbers Flee in Waiting Auto With $859 From Washington St. Store. T wo hold-up men who entered the dry goods store of Abraham J. Solar, 2802 E. Washington St., at 7:10 a. m. today, slugged the merchant with a blackjack, robbed the cash register of $8.7!) and escaped in a dilapidated Ford touring car. The unusual amount of money in the cash register was placed theey by Solar to cash checks for employes at the Pennsylvania Railroad shops near tho store. Today was payday at the shops. hen the robbers entered, Solar, who is 46, and lives at 2408 N. Ala banta St., his son Israel Solar, 15. and a clerk, Miss Bessie Gordon, 838 S. Illinois Ft., were In tho front of the store. “Btck ’em up!” ordered the taller of the robbers, “and be quick about it." 110 covered Solar with an automatic Pistol. Israel Solar was standing mar his father and thought the man was “kidding.” He asked the hold up man. “You wouldn’t shoot me. would you.’” “Beat It or I’ll Shoot” “I sure would and you had better beat it to the rear of the store or 1 will shoot. I am not fooling." Israel retreated to the rear of the store and hurried to a back room where, he telephoned to thy police. "After Miss rtbrftdfi and Israel' kola;-' had been forced to the rear of tho store, the merchant stood back of the counter near the rash register. The tall robber kept him covered with a gun. The small.-r man sneaked behind the courter and slugged So ar repeatedly with tic blackjack, knock ii.g him to the rear of the store. The tall man took only paper money from the cash drawer, leaving about $45 in silver and overlooking about S9O in paper money that was In a back compartment. The tall man ran from the store and slammed tho front door behind him. This almost resulted iu Solar capturing tho short robber, hut ho got the door open Just in time to cs cape from the merchant, who tried to seize him. Motor Ifß Running Solar ran after the bandit, who turned north at BoviHo Ave. When he reached the alley the bandit jumped on the running board of a Ford car. The taller bandit was at tbe wheel and the motor had been left running. As the car started cast through the alley Solar tried to soiz,t the license plate on the rear of tho car. He caught hold of the mud-covered license plate and one end of It pulled off the automobile, but It Jerked out of his hands. The only number he was able x to read was seven. The 11 cense was a 1922 plate. GIRL AND CHINESE WOOER ARE HELD Ready lo Go to Housekeeping in Pittsburgh Love Nest. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 9.-—A girl giving the name of Doris Ilahne, 15, . who arrived last night from Parkersburg, W. Va_, ready to go to housekeeping with an oriental wooer, will be turned over to her parents, police announced today. The girl and Henry Lee, 28, Chinese, would-be husband of Doris, were all taken into custody as they were about to settle in their love nest. LIFE SENTENCE PASSED By United Press MOUNT HOLY, N. J„ Jan. 9. Harry C. Mohr was sentenced to life imprisonment today for instigating the murder of “Honest John” Brunen, circus owner, March 10.

Wife of Gary Assemblyman Is Student of Legislative Moves

While her husband has been the sto ■ * i •■!• of the fight over committee chairmanships in the House of the Slate lature, Mrs. J. Cl. nn Harr. . f t iarv has been a faithful follower of his cause. She is s.-en daily at the Ftutehou.se. The

WOMAN HANGED WITH PARAMOUR Appeals for Clemency Fail to Save Life of Expectant Mother, Who Dies on Gallows in British Prison.

Hu Vntteil I’nns I A )NDON, Jan. 9. —Mrs. Percy Thompson, was handed at 9 o'clock this morning at Holloway jail for murder of her husband Oct. 4. At the same time, In IVntonvhle prison. Frederick Edward Py waters, her sweat lie art. found jointly guilty of the crime, was hanged. Hundreds gathered in chilling rain outside the prisons awaiting the single solemn clang of the death hell that announced the executions. One woman bore a placard: “Murder cannot be abolished by murder.” Mrs. Thompson, who made vain appeals for clemency to the last, was the first woman executed in England |in fifteen years. She was about to : become a mother. No Demonstration I The curious crowds outside drifted !away without demonstration. I Mrs. Thompson and By waters were found guilty after ono of the most j dramatic murder trials tn English court history, of conspiring against ; the former’s husband and effecting his | death by stabbing on Oct. 4. By waters admitted the stabbing, claiming selfI defense. The couple said they had j planned to elope toget her later on, and love letters passed between them were produced in which they discussed ways and means of poisoning Percy Thompson. ( oiuleinned Man Brave Bywaters walked bravely to the scaffold. Tie had borne up well throughout the trial and the various ordeals preceding his execution, only constantly urging that Mrs. Thompson bo spared, lie slept most of last night, ate a light breakfast, smoked a cigarette, sent a last message to the governor of the Bentonville prison, thanking him for the treatment

doubt it would kill him, lie declared. ‘‘lt’s miraculous what the human frame will survive,” he admitted on the last evening of that month. “But you and the doctor ought to both be taught it won’t stand too dang much! You poison a man find poison and poison him with this April night air—” “Can’t poison you with much more of it,” Miss Perry interrupted him, indulgently. “Tomorrow it’ll be May night air, and I expect that’ll he a lot better for you, don’t you? Now let’s just sober down and be a good boy and get some niee sound sleep.” She gave him his medicine, and, having set the glass upon the center table, returned to her cot, where, after a still interval, she snored faintly. Ikion this, his expression became that of a man goaded out of overpowering weariness into irony.

MRS. J. GLENN HARRIS

Harrises are prominent socially at Gary. Watching the I/egislature and helping her husband there is not a new experience for Mrs Harris. She has “sat in” at previous sessions in which Harris served.

he had received while there and then walked steadily to his doom. Mrs. Thompson passed a fair night, but was fn a state of complete collapse at 7:30 this morning. She was practically unconscious for the two hours that preeided the execution and was carried to the scaffold with a doctor in constant attendance. PROFESSOR SAYS STREET CARS SPREAD DISEASE Hundred Million Headaches Per Year in Chicago Due to Service. By United Netos CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—Measured in aspirin, the 2,000,000 passengers who use Chicago street cars pay a price of more than 100,000.000 headaches a year for inadequate street car service, Dr. Frank Smithies, associate professor of medicine at the University of Illinois, declared hero Monday. Street cars aro the best disease spreaders known to science, he .asserted, FIFTY FAMILIES ROUTED FROM BEDS BY FLAMES Blaze Quicldy Extinguished by Fire Department With Slight Loss. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—Fifty families •were driven to the street in their night clothes when fire broke out in the St. Benedict apartments here to day. Tho blaze was quickly extinguished by the fire department at a slight loss. The fire started from a lighted cigarette thrown into a dummy elevator shaft.

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Friends of Present Law in Legislature Rush Plans to Prevent Passage of New Measures. PARTIES ARE DIVIDED IN FIGHT Republican Leads Move in Senate and Democrat Heads House Forces Governor With Opposition. The fight to bring about repeal of the State primary law started in both houses of the Legislature today. Bills were introduced simultaneously providing for repeal of the law as applied to State offices and making the primary optional as to local offices. One bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Will K. Penrod, Loogootee, Republican, and the other in the House hv Representative Julius G. Sehwing, Lawrenceburg, Democrat. Lines of

those who oppose the primary and those who favor it were being tightly drawn. Indications were that there would be no possibility of rushing immediate passage. Friends of tho primary hurried to its rescue. Reports that Fenator Penrod was to have a conference with Albert J. Beveridge, who always has been a friend of the primary, were denied by Beveridge. It has been revealed that the committees on elections in each house, to which the bills will be referred, have been picked for the purpose of assuring favorable reports on the bills. Behind the move to repeal the measure ore the McCray administration, the Governor always having been opposed to the primary: the friends of Fenator James j E. Watson, an avowed presidential candidate, and the friends of Fenator Harry S. New. Edward C. Toner of Anderson, one of the foremost workers in favor of the primary system, declared today

House Is Given Measure Calling for $lO Bonus

Provisions for a payment of a State bonus for soldiers, sailors, marines anti nurses who served in the World war is contained in a bill introduced today in the House of Representatives by G. Remy Bierly of Elizabeth, a Democrat, and Ezra \V. Graham of Warsaw, a Republican. The bill proposes payment of a minimum amount of S2O at the rate of $lO a month for each month in service and a maximum payment of $250. Creation of a service recognition board, whose duty it would be to make recommendations of payments, is contained in the bill. Funds would be raised by means of a State levy over a period of three years, to be determined by the State tax commission, with payments to be made to beneficiaries over the same period. Immediate relatives of deceased soldiers are mentioned as beneficiaries in the bill. The bill was referred to Judiciary Committee A by Raymond C. Morgan, speaker. A similar bill appeared at the last session of the Legislature. Twenty-one bills were introduced 'n tho House and fourteen in the Senate. County and township road bonds now on the list of non-taxables will be

Ownership of Still Is Made Felony by Senator's Action

Severe blows were aimed at illicit liquor traffic in Indiana in two bills introduced in tho Senate today by Senator Charles J. Buchanan of Indianapolis. Transporting more than a quart of liquor in any kind of vehicle, whether owned by the offender, rented, or upon which there is a mortgage, would be made a felony and, on conviction would carry a prison sentence of not less than one year nor more than two, and a fine of not over SI,OOO. Penalties also are provided for occasions when a person found guilty of transporting liquor, has firearms or weapons of any kind in his possession. Heavy Sentences Ownership or operation of a still or any kind of distilling device is made a felony upon conviction, according to provisions of another bill introduced by Senator Buchanan. Conviction would carry with it a prison sentence of not less than one year nor more than five years, and a fine of not less than SIOO nor more than SI,OOO.

“Sleep? Oh, certainly, thank youl” However, he did sleep intermittently, drowsed between times, and even dreamed; but, forgetting his dreams before he opened his eyes, and having some part of him all the while aware of his discomfit, he believed, as usual, that he lay awake the whole night long. He was conscious of the city as of some single great creature resting fitfully in the dark outside his windows. It lay all round about, in the damp cover of its night cloud of smoke, and tried to keep quiet for a few hours after midnight, but was too powerful a growing thing ever to lie altogether still. Even while it strove to sleep, it muttered with digestions of the day before, and these already merged with rum blimps of the morrow. “Owl” cars, bringing (Cr*nued on Page 8)

Forecast C'i ENERALLY fair tonight -J and Wednesday. Colder tonight. Lowest temperature 25 degrees, Warmer Wednesday.

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he did not believe the primary repeal bill could be rushed through the two houses. “If it is necessary for some one to establish headquarters in Indianapolis and fight the repeal of the law, I will do it,” Toner said. “Our way would be to go out into the State and arouse public sentiment against the repeal of the primary. Friends of the primary are looking on the movement to repeal the law with a great deal of interest, but we do not believe it can be done.” Toner said he was sure that, If necessary, Albert J. Beveridge will tour the State in favor of the primary system. Opposition to the primary is not coming entirely from the Republican side of the Legislature. Senator Joseph M. Cravens, Democratic leader in the Senate, said his party is divided on the subject.

subject to taxation under a bill proposed by Representative George W. Freeman of Kokomo. It was referred to Judiciary A committee by Morgan. In the bill also is provision for exemption from payment cf road and 'poll tax of men and women who saw service in the world wax. Representative Louis C. Schwarts of Indianapolis presented a bill to provide for a maximum working day of eight hours and a working week of six days for women employes and a penalty for violation on the part of th® employer. It was referred to the committee on labor. Repeal of the law passed two years ago providing for the appointment and salaries of deputy county sheriffs was proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Albert B. Clapp of Marysville. It was referred to the committee on criminal code. Private detectives employed by industrial plants during times of labor disputes would be obliged to wear police badges under the provisions of h bill introduced by Representative Charles F. Riede of Terre Haute. Morgan referred this bill to Judiciary A committee.

Other important measures introduced in the Senate included: A bill by Senator Batt limiting the bonded indebtedness of municipal corporations to 1 per cent of the valuation of taxable property. The limit now is 2 per cent. Memorial Day Sill A bill by Senator Cann to repeal the free employment law. A resolution by Senator English to allow the amendment of the constitution by a. majority of the voters voting on the amendment. A bill by Senator Moorhead to prevent sporting events on Memorial oay. AFTER LICENSES In an effort to bring about quick collection of license fees by the city of Indianapolis, Joseph Hogue, city controller, today placed In the roll call room at police headquarters a hoard on which are posted samples of every variety of license.