Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 213

FARMERS TO FIGHT TAX BILLS Agriculture Bloc Will Be Formed at Meeting of Legislators—Education and Compensation to Be Discussed. Legislation applying to rural communities will be discussed at a meeting of farmer members of the Legislature in the House of Representatives tonight. The meeting will be for the purpose of forming a “farm bloc” to work together on legislation affecting rural communities. There are seventy-four farmers in the two houses and their inl'uence is expected to be strong. Among measures to come up is the county unit school bill

KLAN PRGBE SHEDS LIGHT ON NUHDEBS

Word of ‘Biggest Stunt* Whispered Around Mer Rouge Before Kidnap Plot. Sy United Press COURT HOUSE. BASTROP. La., Jan. 15.—Word that the "Ku-Klrx Klan is going to pull the biggest stunt ever, was whispered around Morehouse parish two weeks before the brutal murders of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards, witnesses testified in the hearing today. J. Inabet, merchant of Mer Rouge, testified in the probe of hooded terrorists that he received this word from A. L. Fleming, former Mer Rouge citizen. Inabet declared “the stunts were pulled.” Capt. J. K. SMpwith, exalted c!clops of the Ku-Klux Klan sought the cioak of a parish official under which to carry out raids, the State showe> today. Fred Carpentier, sheriff of More house Parish, who has been named asa member of the Ku-Klux Klan. w<i> called as the first witness. He testified Skipwith asked to be deputized tc make arrests of bootleggers and was told "all right” but never received an official commission. The evidence was introduced to shatter Skipwith’s claim that he and others were deputies when a raid was made on the home of Lon Braddock. a farmer, charged with bootlegging. Under the laws of the State this would make Skipwith open to a charge of breaking and entering homes in the night, a capital offense in Louisiana. That the series of sensation which have followed in rapid order in the last two weeks have but barely scratched the surface was intimated by Attorney General Coco today when he announced seventy witnesses were yet to reveal details of hooded mob activities. Fifty of these witnesses are expected to proceed along entirely new lines of evidence, it was indicated. That a supergovemment directed by Captain J. J. Skipwith, exalted cyclops of the Morehouse parish branch of the Ku-Klux Klan. actually existed, and that up to the time of Governor John M. Parker’s inter ventlon local authorities were inactive in the punishment of law, violators, was clearly shown at the hearing during the past week. Attorney General Coco contends. But little evidence bearing directly on the double murder has been brought out since a week ago Saturday, when the horrible work of the nameless torture engine was revealed. “V’e are merely building up our evide.ice to show that the local authorities were not only powerless, but did not act,” one State official explains. AUTO DRIVER ARRESTED FOLLOWING COLLISION Richard Cushwa Slated on Two Charges. Richard Cushwa, 21, of 1832 N. Alabama St., was arrested by police today after an automobile driven by him collided with one driven by Thomas Tobin. 17, of 1209 X. New Jersey St., at Twenty-Fifth St. and Park Ave. Cushwa was charged with speeding and Improper driving Police said Tobin was driving west on Twenty-Fifth St. and Cushwa north on Park Ave. Cushwa’s car wedged the ca- of Tobin against a telephone pole in the collision. Both drivers escaped Injury. Following the accident, Cushwa disappeared. but was arrested at his home, police said. 1 THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty four hours ending 7 p. m., Tuesday, Jan. 16, fair tonight. and Tuesday. Xot much change in temperature. Ix>west tonight about freezing. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. • 6 a. m 33 10 a. m 34 7 a. m 33 11 a. m 35 S a. m 32 12 (noon) 37 9 a. m. 33

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sponsored by the administration and which would make counties instead of townships units In school administration. City schools would not be affected. Powerful influences are being brought to bear from rural communities against T he bill. Trustees in many places are opposing it. The Assembly is being flooded with protest resolutions from teachers. There is a question as to whether the farmer members will be able to work as a unit on this measure, but there is no doubt many will oppose it. Lindley Objects Senator Alonzo H. Lindley of Kingman, a leading farmer member of the Senate, said, while he believed the county unit plan to be good, a mistake was made in the way in which it was presented and he believed residents of rural comunities resent what they consider an attempt to take away some of their power to govern themselves. Senator Lindley pointed out the school survey report which recommended the county unit system also condemned the administration of other sehoq! affairs, particularly the personnel and activities of the State hoard of education and the administration of the State normal schools. Here Is Question “Why,” Senator Lindley asked, “did the administration concentrate only on this one measure and not take into consideration other parts of the report of the school survey commission?” He said he could see no reason why hills covering nil the changes sug■ested in the report could not have Introduced at the same time as ' • < ounty unit bill. Another matter which will be taken ,> by the farmers is the proposed mendment to the workman's compensation law, which provides that nrmers shall not be responsible for accidents occuring on their farms .vnen the employe injured is working .or a person working for the farmer.

DRY LI GLOSS FEDERAL COURTS Twice as Many Cases on Docket as Year Ago. Copyright. 1923, by United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The dawn tomorrow of the fourth year of constitutional prohibition will find the Federal Courts clogged with almost twice as many prohibition cases as were on the dockets a year ago. As the third dry year ends tonight, a grand total of 68,562 prohibition cases are pending in the Federal Courts as compared with 38,851 on Jan. 1, 1922. In addition there are n any more -thousands of cases in State and municipal courts. Summarizing its work during the last year, the prohibition bureau reported as follows: Fines received from convicted violators totaled $3,172,330.15. Including fines, forfeitures and collections, the prohibition bureau turned into the FederaJ treasury a total of $4.804,271.95 —More than half the cost of the Federal enforcement organization. Number of convictions obtained in Federal courts, 21,640.

REVIVAL TO CONTINUE Revival services at the Friendswood M. E. Church will continue throughout this week under direction of the Rev. D. W. Mcßurney, pastor. OVERCOAT STOLEN John Elee, 421 N. Illinois St., told detectives his overcoat and sl4 were stolen from his home Sunday.

Parson and Prayer Bride Would ‘Purge’ Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, with its “dens of iniquity,” is one of a half-dozen mid-western cities that are to be “cleaned out” by the Rev. George H. Lawson of East Orange, N. J.. who recently took unto himself a "prayer bride,” according to a New York dispatch to The Times today. He is planning a pilgrimage for the salvation of the United States. The dispatch says Lawson, with his bride, has booked Indianapolis in his itinerary through his brother, a resident of this city, and that he is trying to book a meeting at Cadle Tabernacle during the course of a two-year campaign. E. Howard Cadle said he had not heard from Lawson. The bride, a forewoman in a New Jersey laundry, is said to be 28, demure and plain, and has learned the essential “Christian womanly attrib-

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YOUTH PREFERS PRISONTO TRIAL John Bogus Sentenced for Grand Larceny. Indicted on charges of robbery and grand larceny, John Bogus, 19, or Chicago, agreed today to accept a sentence of from one to fourteen years in the State reformatory rather than be tried by a jury in criminal court on the charge of robbery. Hogus was charged with robbing a restaurant at 309 Massachusetts Ave., taking $35 from the proprietor, Nick Phillis. “Bogus is suspected of belonging to the’Sonny’ Dunn gang with headquarters in Chicago,” said Sheriff George Snider. “That is the gang that pulled the bank robbery at Alert, Ind., and of the Em-Itoe Sporting Goods store here. The man who was killed in Denver during the robbery of the mint was identified as from Chicago, and there is strong suspicion that Dunn’s bunch pulled that robbery too.” The prisoner was sentenced by Judge Janies A. Collins after he pleaded guilty to tiie larceny charge. He is a parole violator from the State prison of Illinois, authorities said. Several other alleged members of the Dunn gang have been held In jail here for months while efforts have been made to extradite Dunn from Illinois.

RETIRED NAVAL OFFICER LEAVES FOR KANSAS CITY IJeuteiiiuit Commander Payne Accepts New Position. Lieutenant Commander F. R. Payne, retired, 2162 N. Meridian St., was given a farewell ovation by friends at the Union Station today as he left fer Kansas City. Payne, who has been Indianapolis manager of the Great Eastern Mills, will assume a similar position in Kansas City. Lieutenant Commander Payne has a naval record of thirty-three years, having been graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1892. lie has been prominent in the organization of the U. S. Naval Reserve, and was an active member of the American Legion. ‘STANDARD SETS PRICE’ By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Standard Oil units contract the gasoline industry and exclusively determine the price the consumer must pay, L. W. Nicholas, president of the National Petroleum Marketer's Association. charged before the Senate Investigating Committee today. MERCATORS ‘PEP UP’ Lon Ross, will be “pep injector” at the meeting of the Mercator Club, tomorrow at the regular meeting of the club at the Spink-Arms Hotel. Ladies day will be observed Jan. 23.

utes of not speaking until she’s spoken to and then ss.ying a mouthful,” Lawson is quoted as saying. Arm in aim with his new wife, he will visit “the country’s most flourishing dens of iniquity to drive the devil out.” His slogan, he is said to have declared in an interview at his temporary “love nest” in the McAlpin Hotel here Sunday, will be: “Rid us of hootch, even if you have to give us back our booze.” For the wholesale abuse of prohibition, the Rev. Mr. Lawson believes, “is the root of all evil: and it would be better to bring back beer that only puts a man down, than to continue drinking the present poison stuff that also puts a man out.” During the present season he will

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JAN. 15, 1923

Trip to Movie Theater Has Tragic Climax When Gay Party Steps in Path of Locomotive. Calling for two of her companions who were killed Sunday night when she was run down by a locomotive and serious*/ injured. Miss Gladys Micks, 17, 232 Trowbridge St., lay at the city hospital today, her left leg cut off above the knee and her right foot crushed. Miss Micks was in too critical a condition to he told of the death of her two (dose comrades—a young man and a girl—in addition to that of a second man. The four were struck by a light en-

gine on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at thp Southeastern Ave. and Oriental St. crossing. The dead: MISS WILLIE B. EDMONDS, 19. 222 S. Summit St. FRANK SMITH, 20, 2950 N. Gale Street. MICHAEL GOOTTE, 22, 528 E. Market St. The names of Smith and Miss Edmonds were continuously on the lips of the injured glrl. Unofficlal reports showed that the two couples, laughing and chatting, walked under the lowered gates at the railroad crossing, and, blinded by smoke from two engines coupled together, stepped behind them Into the path of the light engine. Coroner Paul R. Robinson began a probe of the conditions at the Oriental and Southeastern Ave. crossing. B. A. Green, 488 N. Hamilton Ave., Columbus, Ohio, engineer, and George D. Rinehart, 416 Denmead Ave., also of Columbus, both testified that the gates were down and the crossing bell was ringing. The engineer stated that

PROFITEERS BLAMED FOR HIGH COAL PRICE Commission Report Also Puts Cause of Costs on Recurrent Strikes—Warns of Federal Control.

By United Press WASHINGTON, J an. 15.—Widespread profiteering, over development of the mining industry and recurrent strikes during the last few years were blamed for the present high prices of coal by the United States coal commission today in its first report to Congress on the national coal problem. The commission warned that unless the industry reforms itself through the elimination of frequent strikes and surplus miners, Federal regulations will be necessary. Too Many Miners The major findings of the commission which will be supplemented in later reports include: I—The1 —The number of miners in the industry has increased during the last few years until it is now 200,000 in excess of the demand. The present number is sufficient to mine 500,000,000

be content to “clean up” States as far west as the Mississippi. The following year he will “pursue the devil” into the Pacific. And in the latter crusade of heaven against hootch Mrs. Lawson is to play, a vital part. “My wife,” he said, "is the female apostle of the new religion. She has a lovely high soprano solo voice, and is going to lead the augmented choirs that will accompany my sermons. I predict the mantle of world's greatest woman religious leader is about to fall upon her shoulders.” Lawson’s brother is already said to have booked the following cities for the evaneglist’s campaign: Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Kansas City. Efforts are being made, the

the' fireman told him they hart hit some one. and he stopped in the length of the engine. The official police report, made by Sergt. Melvin Wllkerson, did not show whether or not the gates were lowered. The report, very brief, said that the bodies of Smith and Miss Edmonds, who were killed outright, were carried 100 feet under the locomotive. Goctte died four hours later. Friends at Factory Oootte and Miss Edmonds were empioyed at the Fairbanks Morse Company, where their friendship began. Smith was a bellboy at the Claypool Hotel. Miss Micks worked at the G. & J. Tire Company. Just before the tragedy, the young persons had left the home of Miss Edmonds, where they had taken supper, to go to a moving picture theater at Oriental and E. Washington Sts. E. J. Reinhardt, fireman of the light engine, said that as he approached the crossing, he saw, (Continued on Page Two)

tons of coal a year, or about 250,000,000 tons greater than the largest production this country and foreign markets have ever been able to absorb. 2 The car supply of the country has been virtually adequate during recent months and thereby moving a supply of coal, and that under normal winter conditions would far exceed the demand. Reason Should Prevail 3 Collective bargaining should rest upon reason rather than force. American law and public opinion recognize the right to orgunize into unions and the right to work without hindrance.” 4 There has been profiteering in the -sense that grossly exorbitant profits have been taken at times by many operators, brokers and retailers. 5 Combined charges of the railroad, the wholesaler and retailer in most localities exceed the price of coal at the mines.

dispatch says, to obtain Cadle’s Tabernacle in Indianapolis, where he could talk to 32,000 persons intimately about gin and the gospel. But first of all, Lawson intends to clean up the Bronx in New York. "The Bronx,” he aserted, “is the hell-hole of America. Broadway is but an artery of corruption leading to the Bronx.” So contaminated is the Bronx that the preacher fears he must spend a whole month purging it of its sins. If unable to hire a hall there, he will go after the town hall and attempt to ’save both Manhattan and the Bronx at the same time. After that he intends to go to Philadelphia, where “conditions are so bad as to demand my immediate attention,” ands ronT Quakertown he

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14 INDICTED BY IEW BID JURY Ten Released From Jail in First Report. The first report of the new county grand Jury handed Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court today included ten releases from jail and fourteen indictments. Kenneth Green was indicted with Hosea Holder on charg<"s of robbery and grand larcvncy in connection with the taking Nov. 17, 1922, of $32.75 from John L. Baker, 2(549 Brookside Ave. He was also indicted with Edward hall on a charge of taki..g an automobile Oct. 13, 1922. from the Phoenix Furniture Company. Those ordered released were Harry Thomas, I. W. Masters, Theo Board, Otho Kusey, Sherman Eaglin, James Fowler, Albert Hooker, Theo Pullet, George Reed and James Brundage. STOCKWELL GIVEN TWO ID 21 YEARS Convicted of Manslaughter in Baldwin Death. % A sentence of two to twenty-one years in the State prison was given to Lyman Stock well. 42, of 54 Holt Ave., in Criminal Court this morning. Ho was found guilty of manslaughter by the jury in a sealed verdict. The case was given to the jury at 7 p. m. Saturday and a verdict was agreed on at il p. m. Saturday. Prosecutor Evans had asked for a verdict of guilty in first degree murder in the case. Stockwell was charged with the murder of Albert Baldwin, his neighbor, following a neighborhood dispute. Baldwin was shot once through the heart.

COPS WORK IN WOODRUFF, DESPITE MAYOR’S THREAT Jewelry Worth 5385 Taken in Two Robberies. Despite threats of Mayor Shank that Woodruff Place would be "safe for burglars,” Motor Policemen Seifert and Lowden today investigated two burglaries there Sunday night. D. L. Baumbaugh, 838 West Dr., reported that burglars entered his home through a transom and carried nway jewelry valued at $235. Fred Schowie, 025 Middle Dr., reported that a side door of his house was jimmied and thieves took jewelry valued at $l5O Both families were downtown when the burglaries were committed.

will go to Boston to finish the soulsaving that was interrupted several weeks ago when his church there burned down. Just as soon as he purifies the Atlantic coast he will make his inland tour. "I have faith,” he said, “that the Deity who gave m* my life will give me plenty of oratory to win converts. I am firmly convinced Mrs. Lawson was sent to me to lead my choirs. “All of those other might-have-been brides were only camouflage, I see now. The woman with the quarter of a million dollars, who jilted me as we were about to be married, the ‘blonde beauty’ in Wisconsin who wrote me kidding letters and the 800 or 900 other women who have proposed to me in the last few weeks, arc dross, while the Mrs. herself is pure gold.”

BALKANS WITH WAR

French Garrison at Memel in Lithuania Attacked and Beaten Back—Hungary Mobilizing Against Roumania. Latest From Topsy-Turvy Europe New conflicts of arms, aftermaths of the world war, broke out in Europe today. Lithuanians and French fought in the streets of Memel and Hungarian troops were reported mobilizing on the Roumanian border. French troops are making a desperate attempt to held Memel, while allied warships are racing to the rescue. The attackers, seizing upon the Ruhr situation to handicap the allies in defending the Prussian border city, drove the French troops back from trenches outside the city. The Roumanian minister in Paris disclosed that war clouds again are lowering over the Balkans, in a report that bands of Hungarian troops have already entered this country. In the Ruhr, French troops moved forward to occupy additional territory, including Bochum. A dispatch from Berlin said that the advance guard of the French have entered that city, the “capital” of the great industrial interests of HugoStinnes. War in the Near East may be added to the turmoil, if the Lausanne conference fails. Greece is reported moving troops to Thrace. BULLETIN By United Press PARTS, Jan. 15.—Orders have been given to occupy the Ruhr as far as Dortmund as the result of Germany’s refusals to accept the French coal production plans, it was announced today. German coal commissioners prohibited Ruhr operators from supplying French with fuel even if paid for.

GERMANS STAGE HATEFEST IN BERLIN By Vnited Xews BERLIN, Jan. 15. —Thousands of angry Germans, shouting “Down with France!” launched an attack on the French embassy Sunday, but were beaten back by police. Germany turned her day of mourning over the French invasion of the Ruhr into a hatefest, in which the mob. crying for vengeance, all but got beyond control of the authorities. The demonstration started in the Paritzerplatz, the public square in the center of Berlin. Howling, the Berliners surged across the area to the French embassy. Police Attacked When the cordon of police, which had been thrown about the building, refused to give way to the attackers, insult after insult was heaped upon the defenders. The police were forced to use their batons freely before the menacing demonstrators gave way. Several arrests were majie. In dispersing, the crowd swept toward the office of the Franoo-Belgian military mission, booing and hissing. Another concentrated attack was launched. It was repelled by the police. Authorities, believing that the situation might be out of their hands, ordered re - inforcements. Police, shoulder to shoulder, circled the whole area of the Paritzerplatz. Guards Charge Mob Guards, doubly armed, were thrown around the French embassy and other public buildings that are located about the square. Mounted police charged the mob, herding it back into the vicinity of the Hergarten, the large part just back of the Paritzerplatz. On the steps of the Reichstag, the stautes of Bismarck and Moltke served as platforms for orators who hissed hymns of hate to thousands, who faced them. The Reichstag is at one corner of the Platz and not far from the French embassy. All along the sieges Allee, a broad and beautiful avenue in the Tiergarten, speakers attacked the French invaders and clamored for more than “passive resistance” from the government of Chancellor Guno.

FRENCH TIGHTENING GRIP IN RUHR By CARL D. GROAT By United Press BERLIN, Jan. 15.—Bochum, where Hugo Stinnes' steel factories are located, was occupied by French troops this afternoon. The invaders thus lightened their grip on the heart of the Ruhr industrial region. When the blue-clad Poilus arrived at Bochum, all work in the city immediately stopped, says the Lo-kal Anzeiger. This was done . according to pre-arranged plans. Bochum was seething with excitement; communists in the streets were distributing leaflets advocating war with France and demanding the resignation of Chancellor Cuno.

ATTEMPT MADE TO IMPEACH TESTIMONY Herrin Defense I'lares Eighteen Witnesses on Stand in Court Today. By United Press MARION, Ills., Jan. 15. —Eighteen witnesses took the stand for the defense in the Herrin massacre trial today in an attempt to impeach testitnony of Lawrence Beare, Dr. John W. Ballance, and Dr. O. F. Shipman, three of the State's witnesses. On cross-examination Jake Jones, Herrin police officer, admitted he made no effort to halt the mob or prevent the murder that occu^ed.

Forecast FAIR tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. Lowest tonight near freezing.

TWO CENTS

‘PRESIDENT' PSYS ASSEMBLY VISIT Attica Attorney Mistaken for Harding. Wieacres in the legislative halls of the Statehouse, idling away the hours until the two houses were to convene this afternoon, found ample food for conjecture when in strolled an individual of such portly mien that from %; 11 appearances he was the President himself—Warren Gamaliel Harding. Yes, there were the shaggy eyebrows: the avoirdupois seemed sufficiently presidential, and the features were obviously identical. J. Shannon Nave of Attica, an attorney and representative of Chicago, Attica & Southern Railroad, was in Indianapolis today attending a directors’ meeting and chanced to be in the halls where he served as a Representative in the years 1879 and 1883. No one recognized him, but everybody felt the President had decided to appear in person. Nave admitted he had had a “hard time living down his terms in the Legislature,” and furthermore, confessed lie had been mistaken for the President repeatedly. "I am planning a trip to Washington soon and expected to apologize to the President for the similarity,” he said.

BARRICADED BEDFORD BAR CLOSED BY FEDERAL WRIT Alleged Liquor Nuisance Falls Under Ran. A soft drink parlor at 1410 N. I St., Bedford, said to have had a barricaded bar so arranged that when raided, the barricade enabled the employes to pour out the liquor before the officers arrived was closed by an injunction issued in Federal Court by Judge A, B. Anderson, this morning. Judge Anderson issued the injunction under the Volstead act, to abate a liquor nuisance. Defendants named were Stanly Fat, Dave Torpy, Claude Greathouse and William Tuggle, who was owner of the building. Tuggle told Judge Anderson that he had a civil suit in court, now to get other defendants out of the building. An offer to operate the soft drink parlor under bond was refused by Judge Anderson. THIEF TAKES CLOTHING Arthur Bible, 655 Muskingum St., reported to the police today that his home was entered and $156 worth of clothing stolen.

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