Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1923 — Page 1

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NEW LAWS PROPOSED HIT KLAN Move Against Secret Organization Causes Legislative Steps, ACTIVITIES ARE DEFINED Ku-Klux Chief Declares Pending Statutes Will Not Go Through, (Copyright, 19tS, by United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—A great revolt against domination by secret, hooded organizations Is In progress throughout the United States. Legislatures from coast to coast are considering laws to crash the masked terrorists. Various activities of the night riders are defined In the proposed laws as treason, mayhem, murder and other felonies, and severe punishments are provided. Disclosures in the State of Louisiana's investigation of the torture murders of Thomas Richards and Watt Daniel furnished one of the principal incentives for this flood of legislation. In addition to the State measures there was a hint today that Federal legislation to suppress masked bands may be introduced. F. L. Savage, chief of staff of the Ku Klux Klan, in a statement to the United Press at Atlanta, Ga., said he believed “the great American people” would not permit the proposed laws to go through. “The national headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan, of course, Is In possession of facts touching legislation proposed or pending in every State and directed against so-called masked orders,” he said. “Not Against Klan” “It is not the intention of the Klan to take an active port In opposing such discriminatory, unfair legislation, for we know the great American I people will safeguard their own welfare and will not permit adoption of such un-Americ&n laws. It is only fair to point out the undisputed, established fact that this legislation is not directed against the Klan, out is aimed at Protestant Americans whose patriotism is 100 per cent pure.” Following Is the legislative situation: MISSOURI —BiII introduced providing two to five years’ imprisonment for any one donning robe, hood, mask or other paraphernalia to hide identity. Entertainers of those participating In entertainments are exempted. MICHIGAN- —Representative Bums will introduce a measure for appointment of a committee to investigate the Ku-Klux Klan in Michigan. WISCONSIN —Measure Introduced making It treason for any one to keep (Continued on Page 7) GUARD CLEARED OF K.KI CHARGE Smith Says Drill Caused Report, Members of the Indiana National Guard did not participate in Ku-Klux | Klan activities at Portland, Ind., AdJ. Gen. Harry B. Smith reported to Governor McCray today, following an investigation. General Smith went to Portland as a result of a complaint to the Governor from Mayor Fleming of that city of alleged activities of guardsmen In a klan parade. Two companies of the National Guard were drilling in their armory on the night of the parade, Gen. Smith reported. He said that when the parade neared the armory both companies were dismissed for half an hour in oruer that they might see the procession. He said that the members were not armed and that they were ordered r.ot to congregate or to participate in any way. He said so far as he could ascertain the orders were obeyed. In the wake of the Investigation headquarters of the National Guard has been Informed of the Intention of Capt. M. M. Moran of the medical detachment of the 133 th Field Artillery stationed at Portland, to resign. The resignation today had not been received officially and no reason for it had been assigned. ‘TIP BANK BRINGS ARREST A toy bank in which he said he put tips caused th earrest of Nathaniel Gardner, colored, 315 Arch St., on a vagrancy charge. Sergeant Sheehan found Gardner on Ft. Wayne Ave. late Monday night. Gardner eaid he worked for a tire company.

1 THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is unsettled tonight and Wednesday. Probably rain or now. Somewhat warmer tonight with lowest temperature near freezing. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 23 10 a. m 27 7 a. m. 23 11 a. m. 29 8 a. m........ 2112 (noon) ...... 80 8 a. a- Si 1 p. m 88

Woman Hides Jewels, Then Chases Two Hold-tip Men for Blocks

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If a hold-up man ever accosts Mrs. L. E. Smith, 22, of 201 E. North St., he had better watch his step. Two robbers who held up Joseph Segal, 226 Massachusetts Ave., at Alabama St. and Massachusetts Ave., escaped, but they probably had vivid recollections today of the merry chase Mrs. Smith led them through three blocks of streets and alleys Monday night. Mrs. Smith was walking with her husband when she noticed the hold-up of Segal In progress about forty feet ahead. She seized her husband's arm and pointed to the robbery. Removing her Jewelry

PEDESTRIANS’ LIGHTS MAY BRIGHTEN ROADS

Bill Would Protect Unwary Motorist From Danger of Unheralded Plodder.

PICTURE the poor pedestrian, stalled on a country road at midnight, -waiting for a courier from the Marathon Service Station to arrive with a fresh supply of oil for his lighting system. Or, parked safely at the roadside, the nocturnal peripatetic may hail seme passing walker, luckier than he, and borrow enough fuel to replenish his illumination. Such may be a common event If a bill Introduced In the Indiana Senate by Senator Rowland Hill of Carthage is passed. Senator Hill would require those who walk by night on country roads to display lights visible 500 feet in either direction. Maybe the motorist is "coming Into his own” at last. The woes of the plodder long have been chanted, with an accompanying chorus of censure for the “reckless speed demon.” But now the Senator asks protection for the motorist. The dangers, for instance, lurking for the small car when a heavyweight pugilist, training by night, looms suddenly in front, unheralded by tail or head light, would be abolished by forcing the walker to announce himself by a signal light, hung conveniently from the belt or a hip pocket. Miners’ caps, with tiny oil lamps, may become the vogue. Whether license plates for riders of

MINERS CONCLUDE WAGE SESSION TODAY Findings Will Be Presented at Tomorrow's Conference. By United Fretl NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—The special wage scale committee of the miners’ and operators’ conference will conclude Its discussions today, according to John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. The findings of the committee are expected to be presented to the main body r of the conference tomorrow morning for approval. DISCUSSION OF UTILITIES Senate to Consider Report on Barker Bill Thursday. A divided committee report on the bill of Murray S. Barker providing that the valuation of utilities for taxes shall not be lower than their valuation for rate making purposes will be the subject of discussion in the Senate at 2 p. m. Thursday. The measure was to have beeiv taken up Monday afternoon, but consideration was postponed. Utility companies are opposing the bill. POl SO NED? NO, - ‘M U LE' Marion DeWitt, 44. was found unconscious today by other lodgers at a rooming house, 9()3% Virginia Ave. They thought he |iad taken poison, but at the city hospital he was found to have been Indulging in "white mula." Bailee said. I

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and obtaining her husband’s pocketbook she hid them in her stocking. The robbers took $8 from Segal and told him to march on with his arms in the air. Then Mrs. Smith got busy. Ordering her husband to telephone the police, she chased the bandits east through the alley between Michigan and North Sts , south in the alley which runs back of the Murat Theater, east on Michigan St. to Massachusetts Ave., and north in the avenue a block before they outdistanced her. Later she and Mr. Smith rode with the police emergency squad which tried to find the robbers.

shank's pony also are considered Is not known. Horseback riders, too, may be forced to decorate Dobbin with a tall light. The seeker of solitude along quiet lanes in summer will, presumably, have plenty of company when the moths and mosquitoes gather around the red light bobbing on his flask pocket.

JUDGES NAMED AS CABARET PATRONS Witnesses Deny Drinking at Gardens. Lawyers, judges and other prominent citizens frequented the Casino Gardens, witnesses for the defense testified today in Criminal Court in the trial of Gamette Davis, proprietor, on charges of violating liquor laws. The defense Introduced evidence following overruling of a motion to discharge the defendant on grounds that the State law went farther than the Volstead act. K. C. McPherson, attorney’, 2430 N. Arlington Ave., testified that he saw no drinking at the Gardens. "Who did you see at the Casino Gardens?" he was asked. Prosecutor Named “Judge H. O. Chamberlain and wife and Will Evans," he replied. “You mean the prosecutor of Marion County?" "Yes, sir.” John C. Hendricks, Jr., 3335 N. Meridian St., son of the manager of the Indianapolis ball club, said he often w r ent to the place. He testified he saw "the Frenzels, Mr. Hook, Dr. Hoot. Mrs. Reader and Mr. and Mrs. Stoite of the Kingsly Manufacturing Company there. Other witnesses said they had seen Judge Sidney S. Miller and Ex-Judge Soion J. Carter at the Gardens, but admitted that it was after a reunion of the Rainbow Division held at the place. Deny Drinking All of the witnesses denied seeing drinking of liquor, or unbecoming conduct. No bottles were thrown over the railing into the river, Hendricks said, and no one left when the arrests were made. Simultaneously’ with the entrance of Federal officers who interrupted midnight revels at the Casino Gardens on the night of Aug. 26, bottles and flasks rained through the air into White River, witnesses for the State testified. Four of the bottles, said by witnesses to contain synthetic gin, which were seized by the officers from hiding places 1* sawdust on the floor, were ptwaed unoof the jurors to smsll.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 23, 1923

Pig’s Eye By United Press PATERSON, N. J„ Jan. 23. The eye of a pig was transferred to the socket of Alfred Lemonowlcz, 17, in an opreation by Dr. Edward Morgan here today. Lemonowicz will be able to see within ten days. Dr. Morgan declared after the operation. The pig was pensioned on a Connecticut farm.

CM VETS NAMED FOR DONDS

Amendment Adds Thousands to Estimated Cost to State, Spanish-Amcrlcan war veterans would be Included as beneficiaries of the Indiana soldier bonus under an amendment to the bill adopted by the House pf Representatives today. Friends of the bill succeeded In getting through an amendment they believe will insure its adoption in the referendum provided by the terms of the measure. This amendment pro vides the measure will be adopted If it receives a favorable vote of a majority voting in the referendum. The new amendment nullified an amendment previously inserted which de fined a favorable vote as a majority of all persons voting in the next regular election. The amendment to provide Spanish War veterans shall be beneficiaries, was Introduced by Representative Russell B. Harrison of Indianapolis. Representative Oscar Ahlgren of Lake County moved that the amendment be tabled. The motion to table was lost, 52 to 42, and the amendment was carried, 57 to 38. A proposed amendment to include Student Officers' Training Corps men was defeated, as was a proposed amendment by Representative Edgar Perkins of Indianapolis to remove the referendum clause. It is estimated the inclusion of Spanish War veterans will add several hundred thousand dollars to the cost of the bonus. The bill now Is reedy for third reading in the House and no other amendments can be submitted until it reaches the Senate, If passed by the House.

SMOKE ORDINANCE TO BE ENFORCED

Shank Orders Inspector to Arrest Violators, Instructions to start Wednesday morning arresting owners of steam furnaces which emit smoke In violation of a city ordinance were goven to City Smoke Inspector Fred S. Bock today by Mayor Shank. Beck will be assisted by Deputy Building Commissioner Verne Ml,ller. "The smoke consumer we had installed at the city hall at a cost of $1,500 works perfectly. There Is no smoke and we save half the coal. That shows that smoke can be eliminated," said the mayor. "I have ordered Beck and Miller to take pictures of the smoky stacks and arrest the owners. Then we'll recommend to the Judge that they be given thirty days or sixty days in which to comply with the ordinance.”

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Flappers and Sheiks Are Crowding to Don Bohemian Bandanna Scarf

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At last the flappers and shieks have come to an understanding—their attire is being universalized. Above Is seen Miss Della May Hartley, 143 S. Elder St., model for L. S. Ayres & Cos., wearing what is regarded as the "ultimate." It Is a bandanna scarf. Is equally popular among men and women, and Is said to have come “straight from Deauville.” Paris and New York have taken to it and "Lt'l old Indianapolis” Is not far behind in the procession. The girls find the “bandanna scarf” especially adaptable to afternoon wear, as well an a protection for the throat while wearing fur coats. One Indianapolis store

WHAT’S IN A NAME? STUDY IN DIVORCES Mary and Anna at Top on Women’s List—• Charles and Frank Run Strong.

GIRLS named Mary or Anna are more susceptible to the divorce fever than any other women, figures In the office of the county clerk show. Girls, Charles or Frank may have you up before tho divorce Judge in a Jiffy, according to the records. Os course, John and Bill are tangled up in more divorces than Charles and Frank or Harry, but then think how many more Johns and Bills there are. An examination of the list of divorces filed between Nov. 1. 1921, and Dec. 31, 1922, shows that in 1,361 picked at random olghtv-six Marys were Involved, forty-eight Annas, twenty-two Helens, twenty Alices, nineteen Mays, Seventeen Margarets, fourteen Pearls, twelve Myrtlqs, twelve Sarahs, nine Daisvs, eight Marthas, eight Josephines, four Maggies, three Susans, one Mamie and one Nora. In tho same list the men's names came: William, sixty; John, fiftyeight; Charles, fifty-seven; Frank, thirty; Harry, twenty-nine; George.

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sold more than a dozen of them Saturday and the calls from men for them were so frequent that they have been added to the men's counter. Silk seems to be the most desirable material. A tradition has it that an ancient European ruler, unable to read and write, chose the side of his hand as the incontestable stamp of his royal house. His wife, the queen, admiring the design, had it made into a costly piece of si'k, from which has originated the present vogue. Paisley silk, buyers say. is so expensive that its counterpart In a stamped piece of goods is more favored. Prices range from $3 to $lO in the imitation Paisley.

thirty-one; James, twenty-six; Robert, twent-one; Joseph, nineteen: Arthur, nineteen; Fred, seventeen; Henry, fourteen; Walter, fifteen; Benjamin, eleven; Albert, eleven; Thomas, fourteen; Guy, seven; Herman, three, and Abraham, one.

BILL PROVIDES NEWCITY JUDGE Additional Member of Local Court Would Be Named. Creation of the offices of chief judge of the city court, at a salary of $6,000 a y’ear, and an associate Judgo whose salary would bo $5,500 a year, for tho city of Indianapolis, is provided in a bill introduced in the House of Representatives today by Representative Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis. The Governor would be authorized to appoint the associate judge to serve until regular election time, the bill specifies. It was referred to the committee on organization of courts. Licensing of public school superintendents would become necessary under a bill introduced by Representative Lemuel A. Pittenger of Selma. The State board of education would be empowered to issue the licenses. The bill was referred to the committee on education. Representative William J. Powell of Jasonville introduced a bill requiring voters to present properly receipted poll tax blanks in order to establish eligibility to vote at elections. All podiatrists, or chiropodists, ■would be required to register and be licensed by a State board for that purpose, by the provisions of a bill introduced by Representative Jacob D. Rich of Brook. The State board of medical registration would be required to appoint two of its own members, who would serve with two licensed podiatrists, the four of whom would compose the board. $42,591 ASKED IN SUIT Suit for $42,691.13 was filed against , the Fairmount Glass Works of Inj dianapolis by the W. E. Deegan Coal Company of Huntington, W. Va., in Federal Court today. The complaint charged that the company had refused to accept and pay for part of 82,500 tons of coal alleged to have been contracted tor in 1919 and 1920

Ruhr Industrial Leaders Issue Proclamation Calling Upon Workers to Refuse Deliverance of Coal to Invaders —IOO,OOO Men in Walkout, TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM RAILROAD LINES New Teuton Note to U, S, Again Condemns Occupation of Rhineland and Arrest of Officials in District —Declare Action Is Violation of Law of Nations, Today In Europe’s Cauldron Germany’s passive sabotage in the Ruhr gained momentum today as mine owners, whose arrest precipitated a strike that now has spread to include J 00,000 workers, were due to face the first of French occupation at court-martial. Miners who worked through the first day of “resistence” strike joined those idle in ever-in-creasing numbers today, according to the operators’ league. Railroads were running in slip-shod fashion; telephone and telegraph communications were further disrupted by attempts of French operators to man the switchboards. Tension was higher through provocative acts of French patrols Essen. Germany seized the opportunity to notify the allies she could not pay any reparations with the French in the Ruhr, and further protested the invasion. France retorted by permitting details of a plan to isolate the Ruhr economically to become public through semi-official channels. The French would stop all transport of fuel and manufactured goods between the occupied territory and Germany, issue a special Ruhr currency, and force the workers to labor or starve, it was indicated in Paris. Bv CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent ESSEN, Jan. 23. —One hundred thousand Ruhr miners are now on strike against French occupation, mine owners announced today. German industrial leaders again issued a proclamation calling upon workers to refuse to deliver coal to the invaders, at the hour when Fritz Thyssen and six other coal owners were to go to trial. Thyssen was taken ill. More and more West Phalian miners joined the strikers today,

six Stinnes tnlnes in the vicinity of Essen closing down because the French refused to hoar workers’ intercession on behalf of the sick Industrial leader, who, it is reported, is to be sentenced to three months in jail. The mine owners’ league announced 35,000 workers are out at Stinnes' mines ami 30,000 at those of the Thyseen interests alone, while strikers are increasing throughout the occupied area. J- -I- -I-

GERMANY AGAIN PROTESTS RUHR INVASION

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Germany today again protested to the world against French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr. Formal notes are being delivered to the French, British, Italian and Belgian governments in the capitals of those countries protesting against action of the occupation authorities in

SENATE HITS SELLERS OF POISON ALCOHOL English Bill Passed 43 to I—Goes to Lower House. Prohibition forces received another boost in the Senate this morning when a measure providing fine and imprisonment for persons found guilty of possessing or selling liquor containing methyl, wood or denatured alcohol, passed by a vote of 43-1. Senator John Sweeney, Democrat, Tell City, cast tho only dissenting vote. The measure was introduced by Senator William E. English of Indianapolis. It now goes to the House. DEMOCRATIC ATTACK ON BANK COMMISSION FAILS Cravens’ Measure Defeated In Senate by Party Vote. Democrats again were defeated In their efforts to abolish a State commission, when a bill providing for the consolidation of the State banking commission with the office of Auditor of State, was indefinitely postponed in the Senate today. The vote, strictly along party lines, was 29 to 18. Senator Joseph M. Cravens. Democrat, Madison, author of the bill, advocated its passage as a measure of economy. Senator Oliver Holmes of Lake County said the Indiana banks needed more examiners and ’jetter supervision, and advooated re Lining the department at all costs.

Forecast UNSETTLED tonight and Wednesday. Probably rain or snow. Somewhat warmer tonight.

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Citizens of Essen were in an angry mood today, following the march of a French patrol through the heart of the city, pushing pedestrians off the sidewalks. By withdrawing troops from the railroads and banks, as the Germans had demanded, the French succeeded in getting a part time service going on the Ruhr lines, while the district banks again opened their doors. -I- -I- -I-

forcing German officials in the affected regions to work against the Berlin government, the United Press learns in diplomatic quarters here. The specific complaint is lodged against orders of the interallied Rhineland commission which directed officials who collect customs and other revenue to turn the money over to the forces of occupation or the allies generally.

CAR TRACK ON SOUTH ST. TO BE VACATED Board of Works Orders Suspension During Sewer Work. The board of public works announced today that it has ordered the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to vacate Its north track on South St. between Illinois St. and Kentucky Ave., while work Is carried on In cleaning out the sewer. Appointments made by the board were: W. P. Turner, 950 S. Meridian St., Junior aid In the city engineering department; E. C. Smith, 712 Ashland Ave., junior office aid in the flood prevention division and Claude Luddington, 332 Trov.bridge St., heavy truck driver in the street, department.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU LOST YOUR DOG? If your pup up and leaves the old home there is no cause for deep concern. He isn’t lost —he only thinks he Is. Don’t go out on the porch and whistle. Go to the telephone, call MAin 3500, and insert an ad in the TIMES “Lost arid Found" column. That’s what Dr. McGinty, 801 E. Washington St., did when his dog meandered off and the prodigal bowwow is back by the fireside again. REMEMBER MAIN 3500 '