Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 214

FRENCH PRESS ONWARD IN RUHR

FIGHT ON PRIMARY DIES QUIET DEATH

Klf[ URGED FOR BUDGET BY MINORITY Chambers and Kitch Favor Cutting Reformatory Fund to $750,000. Recommendations that the appropriation for work on the new reformatory at Pendleton be limited to $750,000 instead of the $2,000,000 asked for by Governor McCray and that numerous other cuts be made in appropriations, were contained in a minority report of the budget advisory committee submitted to the Governor today. The report was signed by Senator "Walter S. Chambers and Representative John W. Kitch, Democratic members of the committee. “We cannot reconcile ourselves to tbs appropriation of $2,000,000 in addition to the #1,000,000 already appropriated to apply to the building of the reformatory at Pendleton,” the statement Bays. “Under the present extravagant plans it would take still another $1,000,000 to complete the institution. and possibly $2,000,000. making a total cost of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 when the reformatory Is finished.” Tiled Engine-room Floors The report declares that tile have been provided for engine rooms and that the floors have been elevated to accommodate pipes. le declares that the industrial buildings will cost $150,000 each as compared with $25,000 for a similar building at the State prison. The reformatory, it is declared, is costing $3 a square foot of floor space while the State prison cost 40 cents. “For these reasons,” this section of the statement concludes, “we believe $750,000 an ample amount to complete the reformatory in addition to the approximately $500,000 unexpended balance, making a total of $1,250,000 yet available to add to the $500,000 already expended. This is entirely prac(Tura to Page 2) THIEVES RANSACK WEST® STORE Druggist Discovers Theft of Cash. When Charles Wyatt, 30 X. Temple Ave., opened his drug store at 1402 W. Washington St. this morning, he found it ransacked. Merchandise was strewn on the floor and counters. Burglars had broken into the cash register and taken S6O. They looted the pay telephone and ransacked the peanut machine. Fifteen hundred pennies, several flashlights and several cheap watches were taken. Various lines of medicines and merchandise were removed from their places. The medicine room had been tampered with, which led police to believe the! raiders were seeking narcotics. Wyatt had no estimate on the value of merchandise taken. Entrance was! gained by jimmying a window in the office of Dr. O. L. Deitch in the rear of the drug store. Dr. Deitch told detectives two young men tried to start an automobile parked in front of the place early in the morning. The detectives arrested Edward Hale, 17, of 2312 Woodlawn Ave., who returned to the car later, according to them. The detectives said he had one of the stolen watches on him. He was arrested on a burglary charge and held under high bond.

THE WEATHER

Light precipitation has occurred In the northeastern sections since Monday morning. It is colder in the lakes and Atlantic regions and colder also In the upper Mississippi and northern Red River valleys. Temperatures cf 20 to 30 below zero are reported from parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. At 7 p. m. Monday snow covered the northern tier of States In the central valleys and extended southward over lowa and northern Indiana. Depths of seven inches were reported in North Dakota, but as a rule the cover was considerably less. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m........ 32 10 a. m........ 27 7 a. m........ 3111 a. m........ 27 la. m........ 3112 (noon) ...... 27 • a. 80 l p. m 22

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Loogootee Senator Takes Measure Out of Committee. The fight against the State primary law came to a quiet end without a struggle today when Senator Will K. Penrod of Loogootee withdrew from commtitee his bill providing that the primary should not apply to presidential candidates and candidates for State offices. The bill, introduced at the opening of the session, was backed by the Republican State committee. The plan was to jam the measure through the Legislature in short order. So much opposition arose, however, that the elections comfnittee In neither house had reported the measure out. Senator Penrod’s action ends the fight in the Senate unless anew bill should be introduced. In the House it was expected the measure never would be reported out. M'GWIEMTS 1 REFORMATORY Governor Complies With Demand. Information concerning the Indiana reformatory, demanded by the Indiana House of Representatives Monday afternoon, was supplied by Governor McCray today. Pamphlets containing a copy of the contract entered into for the construction of the new institution, a statement of the amount spent and an estimate of the amount required were placed on the desks of members of the j House. The report showed the con- : ptruction completed and the construction under way. The report estimated that a total of $1,999,543.72 will be necessary to | complete the Institution. It indicated j that the State already lias spent $550.I 810.71 and that it has available $505,- , 646.40. This would make the total ; cost of the institution $2,997,094.73. Motion to reconsider the motion de- ! manding the facts concerning the reI formatory passed Monday was mEj.de : in the House today by Representative Wysong of Indianapolis, the only ReI publican member who voted for the | motion. The motion to reconsider was 1 seconded by Representative Thurman A Gottschalk, Democratic floor leader, author of the original motion. The original motion was reconsidered and . killed. Gottschalk explained his action by i saying the Governor had provided the information demanded. MOVE TOUMIT. TUXES LAUNCHED Democrats Rap Present System. The Democratic tax bill hitting the present taxing system in the State, was introduced by Senator Charles Batt of Terre Haute today. The bill, which has the approval of the Democratic organization, places a limit on the tax rates of cities, schools, townships and counties. The total township limit would be $2; the city limit, $2.50. Under the bill all tax levies by cities, school boards and townships and their bond Issues of more than SIO,OOO would be renewable by the county council on petition. Budgets must be published, under the provisions of the measure. State tax levies would be fixed by the Legislature. Some of them now are fixed by the State tax board. The measure also would take away from the State tax board the power to make original assessments on horizontal Increases in a county. The State board would continue as a board of appeal. The office of county assessor would be abolished when the terms of the present assessors expire and the duties would be placed In the hands of county auditors. UNIVERSITY HEAD* RETIRES By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Harry Pratt Judson, for sixteen years president of Chicago University, -vill retire on Feb. 20. His successor will be Ernest Burton, head of the department of New Testament and early Christian literature. LAFAYETTE DOCTOR IS DEAD By Times Special LAFAYETTE, lnd., Jan. 16.—Dr. Milton C. Wilson, physician, died suddenly at his home here Monday night. He attended Wabash College and graduated from the Indiana. Medical College. The widow, two sens and a daughter survive.

CHIEF OPENS CRUSADE DN THIEFJ3ANG Orders Police to Patrol in Plain Clothes at Night. A drive to stop the wave of negro hold-ups and burglaries in the city will be launched by police tonight when patrolmen on a number of residence districts will report In plain clothes. The patrolmen have orders to arrest all negroes and white persons unable to give a good account of themselves or who arouse suspicion by their actions. Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff said a number of negro desperadoes have banded themselves into several gangs and have been responsible for numerous robberies and house breakings in sections of the north side. (GREENWOOD MAN GIVES SIOO,OOO TO COLLEGE Grafton Johnson Makes Large Donation to Franklin, j By United Press FRANKLIN, lnd., Jan. 16.—Grafti on Johnson of Greenwood today gave : SIOO,OOO to Franklin Collego to be ■ used in the $750,000 building program j to be started by the college, it was anI nounced here. j This was the 'largest individual d<v j nation. O'BRIEN ASKS FDR IS IE WEB Necessary for Cheaper Insurance, Chief Says. Sixteen more firemen are needed on | the city fire force, according to Fire I Chief John J. O’Brien, who placed the 1 matter before City Controller Joseph L. Hogue and the board of public safety at a meeUng of the board today. Hogue said an appropriation ordinance calling for about $57,000 to care for the salaries of the firemen would have to be drawn and that the city did not have the money now. Chief O’Brien sponsored the resolution in accordance with a recommendation of fire insurance underwriters that there be a larger personnel in the department. He also said that fire companies in other parts of the city were running short in order to care for the needs of Broad Ripple. In order to obtain lower Insurance rates Chief O’Brien said that the additional men must be obtained. Chief of Police Herman F. Rikhoff was instructed to order thirteen patrolmen to be examined for physical fitness. They are John Helm, John Hosteller, George Johnson, James Kerrln, William Mellen, Charles Metcalf, Albert Scribner, Henry Monin ger, William Morgan, Joseph O'Conner, Joseph Okey, Henry Sandmann and Joshua Spears. CHARGES PLACED AGAINST PATROLMAN JOHN ZENER Safety Board to Probe Accusations of Immorality. John Zener, patrolman, proprietor of Danceland, a dance hall at 23 I 4 S. Capitol Ave., was charged with using the place for immoral purposes on Saturday night, Jan. 10, in an affidavit presented at a meeting of the board of public safety today. The affidavit was presented to the board by Mrs. Emma Reiffel, 845 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place, and was signed by A. D. Coleman. The board said It would look into the matter.

OLDEST EMPLOYES OF STORE TO ‘GET TOGETHER’

ABOUT forty years ago when j Charles Mayer & Cos. devoted ! only one floor to retail sell- ! ing it decided to employ a woman ! clerk. Miss Mary Bauer was given this position, which she held until two years ago when she was retired because of ill health. During that forty years the list of women employes has grown along with the expansion of business until It numbers more than a hundred, but there still are two em-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 16, 1923

TODAY’S MOVES IN GERMANY

1. France pushed her occupation of the Ruhr today until her troops had virtually isolated the richest industrial region of Germany. | 2. As the French advanced nearly forty miles into the Ruhr basin, taking control of Dortmund and crossing the river Lippe, the reparations commission in Paris found Germany in further default and Poincare asked additional penalties.

Puzzling Story Is Told By Girl Found in Boy's Clothing

Declaring he believed his daughter may have been kidnaped, L. Cecil White, 645 Birch Ave., went to Greenfield today, where the child, ltuby White, 7, was found Monday night. The girl was dressed In boy’s clothing. Under the boy’s suit and new blue and white striped boy's shirt she wore a green gingham dress, and a green coat which she had when she left homo Monday. The sheriff at Greenfield Is searching for a man and woman said to have brought the child to that city. Deputy Sheriff D. E. Kinder of Greenfield called Inspector of Detectives John Mullin in this city by telephone at 10:30 p. m. Monday and told him the child was found. Kinder said he was called to Early’s drug store, where the girl wa surrounded by a number of persons who were attempting to question her. She had entered the store, and. walking up to the proprietor, said: “I have come to stay." That was all she would say. Later the girl sold she had been told “not to say any tiling.’’ She was taken to the living apartments of the jail, where Mrs. Blanche Smith, matron. took charge of

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the tired child, gave her a bath and tucked her in a warm bed. Before Ruby White closed her eyes in sleep she told the matron a story of having been taken by & man and woman who took her on an Interurban car to Greenfield, where she said they left her. The child said her name was “George Phillips,” and that her father was employed as a body maker in the Nordyke & Marmon factory in Indianapolis. She said her school teacher was Miss Ward. Mr. White today explained the child's statements by saying she has an uncle named Robert Phillips who lives at Stop 4, Terre Haute interurban line, and that she probably oh-

DAUGHERTY CASE BOBS UP AGAIN

Kentucky Congressman Asks for Complete Investigation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. —Declaring that the inquiry recently conducted by the House Judiciary Committee into the Daugherty Impeachment charges “was a whitewash from beginning to end,” Representative Thomas (Dem.) of Kentucky, a member of the committee, filed a minority report today demanding that the Speaker appoint a special committee “with instructions to make a full and thorough investigation of all the charges against the Attorney General."

ployes—Miss Etta Dickman and Miss Emma Reissner —who were employed there in the eighties. These two have called a meeting of all the women in the city who were employed, at the store between 1886 and 1893. The meeting will be held at 2 o’clock Friday, in the dining-room of the store. Thera will be about twentyfive present, including the first employe and the two oldest serving now. Each eligible guest will bring

3. The German mark tumbled to unimagined low levels, more than 18,000 to the dollar, with these developments. 4. Citizens of the Ruhr valley were sullen as the French marched on. There was trouble at Steele, where a French flag was torn down, and at Burea, where crowds stoned the troops. No repetition of the bloodshed at Bochum was provoked, however.

RUBY WHITE tained the name she used by thinking of him. Her teacher at No. 47 school is Miss Painter, but there is a teacher at that school named Miss Ward, White asserted. Ruby has gone away In the past, her father said, but she never went farther than the home of a neighbor. Once she went downtown. Floyd Evans, a neighbor, told Mr. White today that he saw Ruby walking in the direction of the Oliver Ave. bridge over White River at noon Monday. Deputy Sheriff Kinder said he had a clew as to the identity of the man and woman believed to have taken the girl to Greenfield.

DUNN NAMED ’WHITE’ ON SLATE OF POLICE Probe Follows Discovery of Dis crepancy in Reports of County Auditor-Elect’s Arrest.

Discovery of a discrepancy between a report of Motor Policemen Baker and Lowe, of substation No. 2, and the jail list in the turnkey’s office at the city prison, today, showed that Harry Dunn, 3615 N. Carrollton Ave., county auditor-elect, who was arrested the night of Jan. 11 after a motor accident, was slated as Harry White, 39, of 3615 Charleston Ave. Dunn said today he did not care to discuss the incident. A report filed by Baker and Lowe, Jan. 11, shows that at 9:05 p. m. that day they were sent “by desk sergeant to Thirty-Eighth St. and Northwestern Ave.,” on a report of an automo bile accident. “We found that Harry Dunn, 3615

with her any pictures .taken of the store or its clerks during the early years. The afternoon will be passed talking over old limes and getting acquainted all over again. As many of the old employes have married it is proving a difficult task for Mrs. Fred Sehowe of Woodruff Place, who was the fourth woman employe, and Mrs. Sam Walker of Irvington, who are in charge, to communicate with all of the eligible ones. 1

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STATE IS ASKING DEATH PENALTY FOR KLAN CHIEF

Captain J. K. Skipwith, KuKlux Cyclops, Charged With Capital Crime. By United Press COURTHOUSE. BASTROP, La., Jan. 16. —Charges, providing capital punishment for conviction, will be brought against Capt. J. K. Skipwith, exalted cyclops of the Ivu-Klux Klan, and other members of raiding parties, as a result of the investigation of tho Morehouse parish reign of terror, State officials declared today. “Tlie plan is to bring a charge of house-breaking at night against men who entered the home of Lon Braddock and seized him on a charge of bootlegging without a warrant,” Attorney General A. V. Coco said. The charge carries the death penalty in this State. Charges against others on similar grounds may be expected, Coco said. With this announcement the State planned today to shift the investigation back to the direct cause of the probe—tho brutal murders of Watt Daniel and Thomas F. Richards by a hooded mob last August. Thut Captain Skipwith explained that “the community” thought Watt Daniel and Thomas F. Richards “were bad characters and needed tending to,” and that Bastrop Ku-Klur Klansmen armed themselves in preparation for an attack by Mer Rouge citizens after the two victims were kidnaped, was testimony given late Monday. Only a short time after Aug. 24, when the two men were kidnaped, according to F. C. Eason, Skipwith told him: “You probably don't know why it was done, but the community thought those men were bad characters and they needed tending to.”

Good Old Days W. H. Evans, 29, of 623 E. North St., reported to police today that as he was driving north on College Ave. near Sixteenth St., Charles Hale, 39, colored, of 2025 Alvord St., was driving a horse and buggy east on Sixteenth St. as fast as the horse could go. The vehicle crashed into Evans’ machine, knocking It over the curb into a lawn, police said. Evans was injured. Hale was arrested.

Carrollton Ave., was driving north on Northwestern Ave., and ran into the rear end of the automobile of George Spinks, colored, 4025 Rookwood Ave.," the report read. “We arrested Dunn for drunkenness, speeding and operating motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor.” The jail list in the turnkey's office does not show the name Harry Dunn. Instead there is the niui\e Harry White. Louis Brown, professional bondsman, was listed as having furnished S6OO bond for ‘‘Harry White.” He declared he had not put up any money for a “Harry 'White.” This caused Judge Delbert O. Wllmeth of city court to start an investigation to find out why Brown's name was used and to whom the S6OO belonged. The investigation was continued today. Meanwhile the S6OO reposed in the hands of police. Trial of "Harry White” was set f*r Jan. 24. FAMOUS HOSTELRY WILL BE REBUILT Palmer House in Chicago to Be Replaced by $12,000,000 Structure. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 16. —The Palmer House, one of the best-known hotels in the country is to be rebuilt. The hostelry, once considered the finest hotel In the world, is to be torn down to make way for a $12,000,000 twenty-three story structure.

Troops Occupy Dortmund, Third Large German City—lnvaders Plan to Extend Lines Inland Sixty Miles From Rhine. By CARL D. GROAT. United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Jan. 16. —French troops in the Ruhr pushed farther forward over a fan-shaped area today. It is believed the invaders will extend their occupation beyond the river Lippe as far as Hamm, sixty miles east of the Rhine. The outer arc of the occupied area reached this forenoon passed through Recklhassen, ITerin, Castrope and Bercham. Complete occupation of Dortmund, third large city invaded, followed. Fears of trouble were allayed as citizens of the industrial center stood quietly on the sidewalks watching the troops, who were led by fifteen officers. The mayor issued a proclamation calling for quiet and dignity*

Germans at Buer stoned French troops as the latter marched Into the town. The French general in command ordered his soldiers to shoot if the attack was repeated. The police chief was ordered punished for the outbreak. Uprising throughout West Phalia and the Ruhr were feared momentarily as the temper of both invaders and civilians became uglier with an Increasing number of incidents such as this. Agitation was under way in Bavaria today to create anew “an wohnerwehr” (citizen guards), hitherto forbidden by the allies. Occupation Is General. It is indicated that the occupation will Include virtually all of Rhenish West Phalia, a mining region, representing about three-fourths of the whole German output. This will take French troops into the heart of the West Phalia region. The first bloodshed of the occupation—at Bochum, where French troops shot down German civilians yesterday, killing one and wounding others, is feared in Berlin to be but preliminary to further casualties throughout the occupied zone. Reports of the shooting at Bochum yesterday are conflicting. Some reports say there was a clash in the streets between German communists and reactionaries, not directed against the French, who either mistook tho character of the demonstration, or considered they had to take over the duty of restoring order when local police proved powerless. Just as this first sign of rising tide of temper among the invaders is believed to presage serious trouble for civilian populations oi the Ruhr, so are the bitter feelings of flic German citizens cropping out. These were indicated When Germans at Steele tore down a French military flag and shredded it to ribbons. The mayor of the town was forced to answer for the insult. It is freely predicted that inside a month the bloodiest guerilla warfare will devastate the Ruhr valley. Especially will this be inevitable, Ger-

French Troops Surrender Memel to Lithuanians

By United Xetcs PARIS, Jan. 16.—The French have run up the white flag at Memel and the Lithuanians now occupy the little territory, according to advices received here. The Lithuanian invaders occupied the French prefecture before the Pollus, who have been defending the area, surrendered. Reports reaching here from Memel Monday indicated that fighting between the French and Lithuanian In-

Reparation Commission Sustains France on Default

By United Press PARIS, Jan. 16.—The reparations commission met today upon Premier Poincare’s demand that Germany’s failure to mako deliveries of coal, cattle and rolling stock be declared a violation of the Versailles treaty. American Observer Boyden presented a memorandum outlining generally the United States attitude on reparations; 1. e., that Germany’s ca-

BOOTLEGGER ESCAPES, BUT POLICE GET ‘MULE’ Cop Sees Booze Runner Deliver Liquor in Auto. A booze runner delivered fivo gallons of “white mule” whisky to a colored bootlegger late Monday, but Lieut. Johnson got the liquor. The policeman was at West and North Sts., when an autohobile passed him. The door was opened, permitting the officer to see a large jug or. the floor. Tho license plate was covered with mud. Lieut. Johnson drove to Michigan St. and parked. The auto returned, and a colored man ran out, seized the jug and darted through an alley. The bootlegger tore down three fences, dropped the jug and hurdled a fourth fence and escaped. The polio took the jug to headquarters.

THE SIGN ON . THE DOOR Its usefulness as a means to rent vacant rooms* or apartments is almost gone. People who know use classified ads instead. Very few people will see the sign on your door, but your ad in the Times will be placed before many thousands. It was through one of these little want ads that Mrs. Messmer, 1025 Madison Ave., rented her room. Times -want ads bring results. Cell MAin 3500.

Forecast FAIR tonight and Wednesday. Colder tonight. Lowest temperature 20 to 25 degrees.

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mans say, if the French invaders eiv deavor to force the miners to “Slavs labor.” Cuno Is Firm The German government is apparently adamant on the subject of withholding coal deliveries from France. It was permitted to be known today that the Cuno administration will not negotiate with the French on this point as long as the Ruhr is occupied. As the French have made it clear, occupation of the Ruhr is to force satisfactory negotiations and coal deliveries the situation seems completely deadlocked. The question of coal deliveries and requisitions was expected to reach a final show-down this afternoon at a meeting called by General Degoutte at Dusseldorf. Operators and mine-workers were to attend. It was understood the French general, commanding the Ruhr army of occupation, wished to explain Premier Poincare’s requisition orders to the Germans at first hand. Held Long Conference Chancellor Cuno held a long conference this morning with Herr Stutz, German coal commissioner but no communique was issued. Later Stutz In a statement to the United Press, expressed confidence the operators of the Ruhr would obey his orders, and make no coal deliveries to France or Belgium. La citing official information as to Poincare’s orders and plans, Stutz is puzzled as to whether the French intend to seize the Ruhr mines and endeavor to operate them with guards at the pit heads, or to seize money destined for the workers. In either case, he predicts quick stagnation should (lie French alter normal transport. “It is conceivable that the coal will pile up at the pitheads, choke production and cause eventual shutdown of the mines,” Herr Stutz said. This would lead to most serious consequences, he added.

surgents lasted mist of the day. There were no reports of casualties. The French warship, Voltaire, is to leave Brest Tuesday for Memel. Great Britain is to send a ship and reporta from Warsaw declare that Poland haa dispatched one. Memel, a territory of 20,000 inhabitants, has been under the protection of the League of Nations since tha war. Previous to this it was captured from Germany by the Russian* in 1915 and then evacuated.

pacity for payment should be reexamined. Discussion of the memorandum was put over until Friday. Boyden's views are similar to those of Sir John Bradbury, British member. The commission voted with Poincare that Germany had defaulted in cattle and coal payments. The British representative abstained from voting.

RESORT OWNER'S CASEUPMOM Garnett Davis to Be Heard on Blind Tiger Charge. Trial by jury of Garnett Davis, proprietor of the Casino Gardens, on a charge of operating a blind tiger, will begin next Monday in Criminal Court. The indictment brought by the grand jury charges that Davis both sold intoxicating liquor and allowed others to resort to his place eo drink their own. A suit to close the place, located In the northwest part of the city on White River, is pending in Superior Court. It was brought by Prosecutor Evans under the “nuisance” law. “Davis kept insisting that I come j out and see how peacebaly his plaoe was run,” said Jackson Carter, deputy prosecutor attached to the grand jury. “The Saturday night I went out they had three fights and I pretty nearly got beat up myself. Davis said it was ‘just his luck to have all that racket, the first in a month, on the only night I ever was out there,’ ~ said Carter.