Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1923 — Page 1

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BILL GRANTS PENSION FOB IMAGED Measure Introduced in House by Indianapolis Representative, DAILY ALLOWANCE IS $1 State Commission Would Oversee Work of County Boards. An old age pension for persons over TO who have not sufficient means of support is provided in a bill introduced in the House of Representatives today by Representative Louis C. Schwartz of Indianapolis. The bill would create a State pension commission composed of three members appointed by the Governor. The commission would receive $lO for each day in session. It would be empowered to employ a superintendent at $4,000 a year. The State commission would oversee the work of commissions of three members to be appointed in each county by the Governor. The county cowrnlsisons would administer the law directly. County boards would be empowered to employ investigators at SI,OOO a year each. County boards would have authority to fix pensions which would not exceed $1 a day. The bill provides that a recipient of a pension must have been a citizen of the United States and of Indiana for fifteen years and must have lived in the United States for forty years. No pension would be granted in cases where the property of an applicant exceeds $3,000 or where he has other means of support. LOCfilMwfNS LEMMA! Pauline Chastain Gets SSOO Scholarship, Miss Pauline Virginia Chastain, 2188 Sugar Grove Ave., won the second prize, a SSOO scholarship in any college, in the American Legion’s national essay contest on the subject, “How Can the American Legion Best Serve the Nation?” it was announced today by Garland W. Powell, director of the legion's nation alAmericanization commission. First prize, ?750, went to Ah Sing Ching, 14. of Ewa Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, a boy of Chinese extraction. Joseph Giandonate of Bridgeport, Conn., won third prize, and Philip E. Mosely, Westfield. Mass., and Ralph R. Sullivan, Twin Harbors, Mich., received honorable mention. NATIONALLY KNOWN GRAIN MAN KILLED BY AUTO Howard I. Jackson, Member U. S. Corporation, Dead in Accident. B <t United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Howard B. Jackson, nationally known gram man and official of the United States Grain Corporation during the war, was killed by ar. automobile here today. Jackson was struck by a machine driven by Karl Kauffman just after he had stepped from a motor bus. He died a few minutes later. UNIT CHANGE ATTACKED Tln-ee Petitions Oppose County Education System. Three petitions bearing 1,986 signatures opposing the pending county unit educational bill were received today bv Senator George L. Saunders of Bluffton and Representative Thurman Gottschalk of Berne. The petitions were signed by 1,9,86 -esidents of Adams County and were sent tr the legislators by H. L. Sipe of Bet ne. REPEAL BILL PROGRESSES S?nate bill No. 1, providing for the lene .1 of the absent voters’ law, was ordered engrossed today when it passed second reading. No amendments were offered on the measure. Senator Barker of Thorntown i3 author of the bill.

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is generally fair tonight and Saturday. Lowest temperature tonight about 23 degrees. Somewhat warmer Saturday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 27 10 a. m 32 7 a.' m 27 11 a. m 34 * a. m.. 28 12 (noon) 37 -• a. in... 30 I p. ru........ 39,

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Example By United Xrtcs HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Jan. 19. The death of Wally Reid probably is the most striking example in American history of the deadly effects of the drug evil, which, officials and physicians declare, is becoming daily more widespread In the United States. Like other Ifddicts, Wally, the big-hearted, happy-go-lucky movie star known as “Hollywood’s Little Brother,” began to use morphine with no intention of forming the habit. Two years ago he became ill in New York while making a picture. To quit work would have meant holding up the picture and a loss of thousands of dollars. “Wally was loyal,” his wife, Mrs. Dorothy' Davenport Reid, explains, “and to sustain him, he took a small dose of morphine.” Reid was not, as he thought, stronger than the habit and it grew upon him rapidly It was nearly two years before he could rid himself of the curse by the most drastic efforts which put him through the tortures of the damned. The aftermath of his struggle with dope ended in his death.

DEFENDANTS IN HERRIN DISASTER FREER If JURY Illinois Town Thronged With Miners and Families to Hear Verdict, BULLETIN By United Press MARION, ID., Jan. 29.—The five defendants in the Herrin massacre trial were found not guilty by a jury in Circuit Court here today. The verdict was delivered at 1:50 p. m., after the jury had deliberated twenty-six hours and forty minutes. The accused men—Otis Clark, Peter Hiller, Bert Grace, Leva Mann and Joseph Cameghi—had been brought to trial on charges of murdering Edward Hoffman during the riots in and about the Lester strip mine last June. By United Press MARION, 111., Jan. 19. —Coal miners and their families from all parts of “Little Egypt” flocked into Marion today for the verdict in the Herrin massacre case. Crowds milled about the streets shortly after dawn gradually gathering around the Courthouse where the jury was locked in the court room. The jury was locked up at 10 o’clock last night after eleven hours' deliberation. Many of the men came to town directly from the pits dressed in their working clothes. The women with nright dresses and hats added a touch of color. Children dashed about madly taking an unexpected holiday.

DANCER’S DEATH BAFFLES POLICE Mystery Surrounds Finding of Semi-Nude Body on Beach at Torrey Pines Following Party in Cottage

ey United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19.—Investigation into the mysterious death of Frltzie Mann, dancer, whose seminude body was found on the beach at Torrey Pines, took an unexpected turn today. Rogers V. Clark of Los Angeles and Captain Luis Jacobs of Camp Kearney, friends of Miss Mann, who were dramatically arrested yesterday, have apparently established iron-clad alibis. With the establishment of these alibis, officers turned to another clew and are seeking to locate in Los Angeles a man connected with the motion picture industry who is said to have met Miss Mann while she was dancing at a cabaret at Culver City. Told of House Party The 111-fated dancer spent last Satuiday night with a friend. Miss Ethel Whitney. She told Miss Whitney, according to her stoiy to the police, that she was expecting a party of motion picture people Sunday for a house party at Del Mar. The following day she left home at about 3 p. m. She told her mother she was going to Del Mar to a house party. About 5:30 she called up and told Mrs. Mann they had changed their plans and were going to LaJolla, near San Diego. The theory of Police Chief James Patrick of San Diego, who has been here working on the case, is this: The “house party” did not materialize. but an admirer of Miss Mann came from Los Angeles to San Diego alone, driving his inclosed roadster. He met Miss Mann in San Diego and drove to the Blue Seat cottages in LaJolla, where he rented a cottage for the night from A. E. Kern. Man Pale and Nervous The man was between 26 and 30, pale and nervous. Kem positively identified the girl as Miss Mann. The

Death of Wally Reid Shocks Movie Stars Into Launching War on Dope

Hollywood Colony Mourns Passing of Most Popular Screen Actor, By United rress LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 19.—1n the little Hollywood chapel where make-believe scenes of sorrotv and j death have been filmed times without | number, hushed preparations were | made today for the funeral of “Wally” ; Reid, screen idol, whose brilliant career closed dramatically yesterday ; afternoon. He lost a heroic fight to \ “come back” from the shadowland of j drugs. Two blocks away the great Lasky lot, where Wally rose to fame, was deserted and silent. Sunlight flickered on gaudy sets and massive scenes; ; the groat glaring Kleig lights stood I gaunt and shuttered, while on the lips of film folk there was but one phrase: “Done must go!” After two years of whispered ru mors about the victims that the narcotic tentacles have claimed among actors, the climax —the death of Reid —caused the film colony to consecrate itself with amazing unanimity (f spirit to drive out the menace to the industry'. Wife and Child at Side Reid died yesterday at a sanitarium where he was treated for the 1 If.H month following a nervous breakoown. His wife, Dorothy Davenport, their six-year-old boy and adopted girl, Beth, 3, were at the bedside at the end. Congestion of the lungs and kidneys, caused by Reid’s nervous breakdown, w r as given by physicians as the immediate cause of death which fol lowed a sudden relapse after L appeal nl he tr>’ght recover. The doc tors said, however, that the star’s general condition was made worse by the effects of drugs which, according to his wife and mother-in-law, Wally ceased to use shortly before his l reakdown some time ago. The funeral probably will be held Tomorrow, when the ever-present camera which recorded Wally’s.rlse to fame and fortune will as relentlessly film his tragic “fade out.” - Broke “Dope” Habit Wally had broken himself of the drug habit, and it was expected that he would soon return to the screen. Mrs. Reid, who had been passing the major portion of every' twentyfour hours for several weeks at her husband's bedside, was in a state of collapse today. With her aid, doctors had said, Wally would fight his way back to a clean life -and an honorable resumption of his screen career. It was Mrs. Reid who. when rumors were flying thick and fast, courageously faced the world and admitted that her famous husband had been In the clutches of narcotics, but that he had stopped the habit at the risk of his life and was winning the fight to come back. Mrs. Reid said he began the habit during a stay’ in New York two years ago. He was 111 at the time, and took it in order to continue work. (Turn to Page 10)

two entered the cottage, stayed for some time, left in the automobile and returned the second time. They stayed about an hour this time and left for good. The theory of the officers now is that while in the cottage Miss Mann may have become violently ill and fainted from the effects of the liquor, and her companion believed her dead. Frightened lie drove away with the body and left it on the beach, he speeding on to Los Angeles. GIDD-AP, OLD DOBBIN! Dignified Senators Plan to Organize CavalrySenator Charles J. Buchanan of Indianapolis W'as busy Friday gathering statistics on the number of horseback riders in the Senate. He proposed a general riding campaign during the recess hours of the upper house. On being assured that saddles would be provided, Senators H. F. Van Orman of Evansville, Robert L. Moorehead of Indianapolis, and Rowland Hill of Carthage gladly volunteered to join the cavalry expedition.

“A Party” By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19. Four men were found dead from alcoholic poisoning in a house on Cumberland St. hero today. The men, according to the police, were given a bottle of “hGoch” by a friend and they decided to have a party. In less than an hour after drinking the concoction they died.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JAN. 19, 1923

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lETECTIVES CALL FOUR PRISONERS 'ROBBER GANG' Police Say Three Confessed Getting Heavy Loot From Five Stores. With the return of Albert Hall, 26, of 2312 Wood lawn Ave.. from Brazil, Ind., where lie was arrested, Detectives Irlck, Giles and John Dugan today declared they had completed a round-up of a gang of alleged store robbers which they said has been operating from the Woodlawn Ave. address since Christmas. Other members of the alleged thief gang arrested previously were f>sear Lcffl. r, 23, of. 2512 Woodlawn Ave., for whom police said they have been ! searching under an alias of Charles Spilley; Edward Hall, 17, same address. and Dorothy Oann of Anderson. Police today were in communication with authorities of Louisville, Ivy., where it was said the three men lived just before coming to Indianapolis. Detectives said today that the three men had admitted the robberies in signed statements. Roberies charged to the alleged gang were those of the George E. Cook drug store. State and Lexington Aves., loot, $ l'0; Manring Pharmacy, 801 S. East St., $175; Charles G. Wyatt drug store. 1402 XV. Washington St., $100; drug store at Thirteenth and Illinois Sts., $l5O, and the Peerless Dry Cleaning Company, 2302 E. Tenth St., clothing worth S6OO was taken. Articles stolen from the drug stores included kodaks, cigarettes, stationery, thermos bottles, cosmetics and postage stamps. Most of the loot was recovered, detectives said. DAYTON TO NEW YORK IN 4 HOURS, AIR RECORD Pilots Start on Return Trip After Non-Stop Flight. By United Press MINEOLA, N. Y., Jan. 19.—Lieut. Alex Pearson, Jr., who yesterday broke records for non-stop flight, when he flew from Dayton in four hours and four minutes, departed on a return trip at 9:05 a. in. today. Bradley Jones, civilian, accompanied Pearson. FIRES CAUSE SSOO LOSS Two Shingle Roofs Ignited by Falling Sparks. Shingle roof fires were responsible for a total loss of SSOO at tyvo homes today. One was at the dwelling of J. A. Francis, 440 Douglas St., and another at the home of H. M. Fiack, 54 N. West St. Both were two-story frame dwellings. The fires were caused by sparks falling on shingle roofs. LAST BILL FOR UNCLE JOE Presents Measure Carrying Appropriation of $12,000,000. Uy United t ress WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—" Uncle Joe” Cannon, Illinois, who retires March 4, after forty-six years in Congress, reported out his last bill today. As chairman of a sub-committee on appropriations he presented the legislative appropriating, appropriation, $12,600,000 for carrying on the work of Congress during the next fiscal year. GAMBLING CHARGES FACED Eight colored men caught in a raid Thursday nignt were scheduled to appear in city court today to anstver charges of gambling. Emmett Miller, 50, colored, 847 W. Eleventh St., was charged with keeping a gambling house, and the other seven men arrested by Lieutenant Cox and his squad of police were charged with visiting a gambling house and gaining.

BEIDMEIUIORMLIS UNDECIDED HERE Other Cities Making Plans for Testimonial. While other cities were making plans for memorial services for Wallace Reid, dead movie hero, no steps were being taken here by the local office (if Famous Players Lasky Corporation. through which Reid’s pictures were released in Indiana. Reid’s last release to be presented here was several weeks ago at the Colonial Theater when “Thirty Days” was played for a week. Executives of local Famous Players office declined to make any statement regarding the releasing or the showing of Reid pictures in this State following the star’s death. CANINES’ HOME PLANNED Plans for a temporary station to caro for stray dogs in the shelter , house of the Indianapolis Humane Society on Pendleton Pike, until provision has been made for anew city dog pound, are being worked out by the'Humane Society, according to Mrs. Dotha Lautz, president.

DO YOU WANT TO GET TO THE CORE OF THE EUROPEAN SITUATION? Then Let You In His Exclusive Cable Dispatch in # The Indianapolis Times Tomorrow Lloyd George, the former war premier of Great Britain, called the greatest living statesman in Europe, who is a regular contributor to The Times, will give the real answer to these questions. CAN FRANCE SURVIVE THE EFFECT OF HER OWN AGGRESSION IN THE RUHR? WILL THE FRANC FOLLOW THE DISASTROUS COURSE OF THE MARK? WHAT OF THE MASSES IN GERMANY? WHAT WILL BOLSHEVIST RUSSIA DO? An order today for The Times will insure you against missing your copy of The Times tomorrow. CALL MAIN 3500, Times Circulation Department* * . !

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WALLY REID IN SOME OF HIS NOTABLE CHARACTERS ON THE SCREEN—IN “THE CHAMPION"; AS CLARENCE, SAXO-PHONE-BEETLE EXPERT IN BOOTH TARKING TON’S COMEDY, "CLARENCE”; AS SOLDIER IN “CLARENCE"; AS RACE T R A C K H E R O. “D U S T Y RHOADES.” BELOW, REID'S WIDOW, DOROTHY DAVENPORT, AND THEIR SON. OHIO LETTER THREATENS LIFE OF PRESIDENT By United Press CLEVELAND, Jan. 19.—A man who gave his name as Frank Fox, dairy worker, today was charged with wrongfully using the mails in connection with tho mailing of a threatening letter to President Ilardlng. The 'letter threatened the President if he did not mail $25,000 to an Elyria. Ohio, address. Fox declined to comment.

Doors Closed and Troops Placed on Guard About Financial Institutions—Mine Heads Arrested and Invaders Halt German Traffic in Occupied Area, WEST PHALIANS IN FEAR OF FURTHER REPRISALS Coal Pits Taken Under Military Control and Customs Barrier Established About Rhineland—Minor Disturbances Reported in Several Districts, By United Press DUSSELDORF, Jan. 19.—The French today seized a Deutsche bank automobile which was transferring 150,000,000 marks from a Reiehbank branch. The latter building was padlocked and patrolled. After the seizure all the banks in Dusseldorf were closed. Reichbank directors throughout the occupied zone attempted to carry off deposit books, as word of France’s intention to seize all banks and credit houses spread. Troops surrounded motor trucks here just as they pulled away from the local branch and prevented departure. At Dortmund, guards were placed about the Reiehbank branch to prevent escape of officials or removal of papers. At Mayence. troops seized the Reichbank’s deposit, books, just as officials were about to flee with them. Troops occupied four coke furnaces and state mines at Recklinghausen and arrested the director. • • • GERMAN MINERS THREATEN GENERAL STRIKE

BY CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent ESSEN, Jan. 19. —French tr ops seized and occupied two state mines in the Buer region of the Ruhr today. The directors and President Ahrens of the mine management at Reibiesen were arrested. German workers immediately threatened to strike in retaliation, demanding release of the officials and removal of the troops. Custom Line Established France also began developmnet of a custom line around the Rhineland Ruhr. Within the limits of the newly occupied zone, the invaders tightened their hold on the pulse of German industry. Decks of the Rhinren canal were seized and all traffic to Germany

YOUMFEIRIB TOE! HER LIFE Explains ‘Daddy’ Wouldn't Say Where He Was Going. “ ‘Daddy’ said he was going to stay out until 11 o’clock and wouldn't tell rue where he was going,” said Mrs. Catherine Carter, 22. of 412 N. Delaware St., to Mrs. Catherine Brannam, her landlady, after she had taken poison tablets Thursday evening, Mrs. Brannam said today. The wife called ner husband "Daddy.” according to Mrs. Brannam. The husband, Oscar Carter, came back long before 11 o’clock, however, and helped minister to his wife, who finally was sent by police to the city hospital., She was reported to be recovering today. Police said she Insisted she spit out the tablets. KNOCKED DOWN BY AUTO Ralph Woods, 2333 N. Delaware St., was knocked down by an automobile nt Broadway and TwentyFourth St., ho told police today. The motorist did not stop. Woods’ injuries were not serious.

Forecast

Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Lowest temperature tonight about 25. Somewhat warmer Saturday.

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' was halted. Four trains loaded with coke were halted. Director Schlutius of the German tax office was arrested at Dusseldorf because he refused to deliver his books to the French. The latter instituted measures to work the State forests, collect customs and a 20 per cent coal tax. Coal Operators Meet German coal operators met with General Fuornier last night; the result of their conference is not yet known, but it is assumed they refused to make required coal deliveries, and that Herr Thyssen and others will shortly face a French court-martial. Germans in the Ruhr, while pleased at the French policy of “open arrest” of Thyssen and other coal operators, by w'hich the industrialists are left actually free to come and go, are frankly concerned over the everI tightening economic pressure. Seizure of the national coal tax, already decreed in the formally occupied Rhineland region, is causing particular uneasiness. There was a minor disturbance at Altessen today w'hen a German policeman was arrested for refusing to salute a French officer. “PIG” INSULT STARTS FIRST FIGHT IN DEPUTY CHAMBER By United Press PARIS, Jan. 19. —Police at dawn today threw a cordon about the residence of Deputy Cachin to prevent his escape w'hile legal formalities to enable his arrest were completed. Cachin, a Communist, was to be arrested on charges of treason, arising out of radical activities in the Ruhr. The Chamber of Deputies, after a scene extraordinary even for its stormy history, voted 371 to 143 to suspend M. Cachin’s parliamentary immunity. What developed into literally a “battle royal” was staged in the qhamber last night as deputies warred with words and finally with fists and feet over Cachin’s alleged treason. Actual fistic exhibitions started when a conservative accused the communist of murder. “Pig!” retorted Cachin, sufficient to start a battle anywhere in France, and radicals in mass formation descended upon deputies of the right. Prince Joachim Murat leaped to a desk and struck the first blow for the conservatives. Dariac, cfhiirman of the finance committee, a former amateur boxet. did considerable execution on radical features. GREEKS AND TURKS CLASH IN THRACE By United Press LONDON, Jan. 19.—Greek and Turk troops clashed in Thrace today, according to semi-official reports. A few were killed in fighting on t bm right bank of the Maritza River. The reports said Greece had violated the Mudania convention and concentrated troops in Thrace, advancing eastward to Turkish outposts. $15,000 DAMAGES ASKED Mrs. Kate Morris Sues Pennsy for Alleged Injuries. Trial of a damage suit filed by Mrs. Kate Perry Morris, 182S N. Meridian St., against the Pennsylvania Railroad, began today in Superior Court, room 3. Mrs, Morris asks damages of $15,000 for a broken arm and other personal injuries received, she avers, when a train on w'hich she was riding stopped w r ith a jerk. The accident happened while she w r as in the dressing room a Pullman car passing through Irvington, April 10, 1921. THREeTbILLS WITHDRAWN President of Senate Praises Legislators for Cutting Measures. “Keep the good w’ork up,” said President Branch in the Senate this morning, when Senators announced the voluntary withdrawal of three bills. Included in the list were two by Senator Hays concerning recount of ballots by Supreme Court in dis Pitted elections, and one by Senator Easton regarding issuing of receipts on inheritance taxes by the county treasurer, . ,