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Write a Verse About MOTHER and Win a Tunes Prize

jr OTHER” —What a theme for a Valentine. Satterfield, {YI the Indianapolis Times artist, drew this picture for a Valentine to Mother. But Satterfield is only an artist. not a poet and it goes without saying that a Valentine is incomplete without a poem. For the most appropriate verse of not more than eight lines to go with this beautiful drawing, The Indianapolis Times offers a prize of Fifteen Dollars. For the five next most appropriate verses it offers prizes of Two Dollars Each. Prize winners will he announced Valentine Day, Feb. 14. All verses in this contest should reach The Times as early as possible. The time for closing the contest will be announced in The Times later.

TIGRESS IS LOCATED Clara Phillips Trailed to Chihuahua City by Detective— Fugitive Eludes Police and Threatens Man’s Life With Revolver —Aided by Friends,

(Copyright, 1023, by Vnilcd Prtta) EL PASO. Texas. Feb 2.—Clara Phillips escaped hammer murderess, was today in Chihuahua City. Mexico, according to private detectives who are trailing her. She has been identified there by these officers and former intimate intimate friends, and has openiy boasted that she is the "tiger woman" who sawed her way out of the Los Angeles i jail on Dec. 5, after conviction on a charge of murdering Mrs. Alberta Meadows. Headed Toward Capital Headed toward the Mexican capital, she and friends who are with her are openly declaring that they have enough influence in the unrecognized republic with which the United States has no extradition dealings, to assure safety. Constantly watched by three different sets of men who sought to bring her over the line, she slipped away from them all today and appeared in Chihuahua City. Virgil Brown, a former Los Angeles County special officer, a cousin of Peggy Caffee, star witness at Clara's trial, and who knows Mrs. Phillips well by sight, tells the story in reports he made to Ted Armstrong, police detective chief of El Paso. "1 had information that Clara, accompanied by a man known to the California police as ‘the scurvy kid.’ alias William Cousins, was seen near Shreveport, La.,” Brown declared. "At Shreveport their machine, a car stolen in Los Angeles, broke down. They were afraid of the police and beat it back to New Orleans. From there they go to Tampico.” In a dance hall down a dark lane in the Calle Diable. where many go for fun, but wake to find themselves beaten, robbed or knifed. Brown and his partners found her, they state. Clara Tipped Off They told El Paso police of their discovery and were given a request to Juarez authorities for cooperation. Just as they were about to make the arrest. Clara and her companion, the "scurvy kid,” were tipped off through a haneer-on at El Paso police headquarters. Clara, the “scurvy kid” and a man known as Jack Miller, said to be wanted in California, went into hiding In a strong protected place in Juarez. Brown crossed to Juarez. The woman drew a revolver, called Brown by name, cursed him and told him to THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is unsettled tonight and Saturday. Probably light rain or snow. Lowest temperature tonight 25 to 30 degrees. Much colder Saturday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 35 10 a. m 40 7 a. m 36 11 a. m 42 8 a. m 38 12 fnoo:i> 43 9 a. m -. 39 1 p. m. 45

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leave Mexico or she would kill him. Later Brown was run out of Juarez with a pistol at his back. Joe Knaus and Ralph Ell s, El Paso detectives, who knew Clara and her husband when they lived here several years ago, also confirmed the Identification. TWO SKELETONS FOUND BY DIGGER Human Bones Unearthed at 30 S, Delaware St, Parts cf two human skeletons were found in the southwest corner of the basement of the Von Hake building, 30 S. Delaware St., two feet below a concrete floor, by Barney Dowe, 1139 S. State St., today. Dowe was excavating for the Bryant Construction company, which is remodeling the building. Herman Kirkhoff, plumber, E. Merrill St., said he remembered that there was a medical college in the building about forty years ago. Edward Gardner, jeweler, for many years in the Baldwin block, Delaware and Market Sts., recalled the medical college occupied the building in 1870 and 1877. Other business men in the district said bodies upon which students worked used to be hoisted to the third floor in the rear and pointed out the hoisting arm still extending from the side of the structure. The theory was advanced by persons in the building that the skeletons, not being complete, were those of bodies cut up by medical students and then dumped into a hole in the cellar as the easiest means of disposal. After Dowe struck the bones he and other workmen kept unearthing them for two hours, causing considerable excitement in the neighborhood. Some of the bones were hauled away to a dump and others were thrown into a cardboard box. MRS. MINERVA BOICOURT SUCCUMBS TO APOPLEXY Funeral of Philanthropic Worker Will Be Held Saturday. The funeral of Mrs. Minerva J. Boicourt, 65, who died Thursday afternoon, following a stroke of apoplexy, will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the residence, 1951 Park Ave. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mrs. Boicourt was born in Indianapolis. She was interested in philanthropic enterprises. Prior to her marriage she taught in Lafayette. Ind. The husband, Charles Boicourt: two sisters. Mrs. Rosa Dark and Mrs. Edwin Hill of Indianapolis, and two brothers, Frank Vatei of Chicago, and H. H. Vatei of Frona, Cal., sUiV.vo.

HATE FIRES GERMANS

Steeplejack Falls 65 Feet, Gets Up Grinning

. Rides Smokestack to Roof 1 Below and Is Only Slightly Injured, After a fall of sixty-five feet with a section of a smokestack on which he was working today, Albert Huddleston, 83, of 427 S. Warman Ave., known as “preacher, the steeplejack,” | climbed from the roof, where he ; alighted, and asked the police emerj gency squad: “What are you fellows doing here?” The seventy-foot stack served i the boilers of the Indianapolis Hawed j Veneer Company, 350 W. Fourteenth | St. Huddleston was painting within j five feet of the top when the stack j broke about two feet above the roof ;of the one-story boiler room. It fell I in three pieces, one going into the alley, one on the roof and the other, to which Huddleston had been fastened In a steeplejack’s "bucket,” cut a clean, round hole through the roof and stopped, on end, in the boiler | room. D. S. Davis, 517 W. Merrill St., partner of Huddleston, was on the roof and saw the stack coming down. lie threw his body in the way of Huddleston. breaking the fall and probably saving his friend’s life. At the city hospital It was reported Huddleston's only Injuries were slight scratches and bruises, a few cracked ribs arid one sprained ankle. He joked with officers on the ! way to the hospital. “I got off better this time than I uid when I fell from anew stack at the Van Camp Hardware Company (seven years ago." said Huddleston. “I had two legs broken and didn't walk • for two years. Then on the first job I had. after getting well, painting a I flag pole for the Star Store, the pole j bioke, throwing me across a sign f thirty feet below and breaking several j ribs. "Part I'll he back at the old game i as soon as I get out of the hospital,” ! j he said with a smile. DEBT LEGISLATION FINDS OPPOSITION IN SOME SENATORS Congress, However, Is Calm as Terms Are Better Understood, Bp l nurd Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. —Congress i was in a calmer mood today concern- I ing the funding of the British debt i [as the significance of the terms aoi cepted by the London government was j better understood. While the first flurry of uneasiness | over the apparent discrepancy bei tween the Interest to be paid by Brit- ' aln and the interest the United States j 1 has to pay on its obligations had passed, there was still some opposiI tlon, particularly in the Senate, and Administration leaders Invoked Presi- j dent Harding’s personal influence to get the way cleared for the debt leg- ; islation, which will be introduced next I i week. Mr. Harding will send a letter to ! | the Senate shortly, urging again the j j need of prompt action on the remain- j : ing Items of the legislative program. | He will stress particularly his view of 1 j the importance of a vote on the ship j | subsidy bill, which now. in the opinion j of its foes, is indefinitely killed. FREEZING WEATHER HEADEDOUR WAY Zero Weather Is Expected, Despite Groundhog, The weather man today disagreed with the groundhog, who predicted warm weather for the rest of the winter by failing to see his shadow. Old Man Winter, who loafed on the job in Indianapolis during January', will arrive by Sunday morning for an extended visit, according to announcements received by the weather bureau. Accompanying the visit will be freezing weather, with temperatures! ranging from 10 degrees above ior j southern Indiana to zero or below for j northern Indiana. Rain or snow may be expected before the extreme cold weather, Weather Bureau officials said. Cold weather will he general in the Middle West. The first fall of the thermometer wiJI start late Saturday afternoon, it was said. Weather Man on Program J. H. Armington, meteorologist of the United States Weather Bureau,; will speak on “Weather Forecasting” and William Herschell will give some recitations at a dinner of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in the Chamber of Commerce building at 6:30 p. in.. Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1923

Wife Tells of ‘Love Quartette’ to Give Warning to Unfaithful

Hubby and 'Other Woman' Sentenced on Charges of Child Neglect, Asa warning to married people who are "running around with other men’s wives and other women’r husbands,” Mrs. Edna E. Hughes, 3920 E. Washington St., today bared a story of a “love quartette” and two wrecked homes. While Mrs. Hughes repeated testimony she gave in Juvenile court, her husband, Robert, 31, and the "other w< man,” Mrs. Helen Carpenter, 27. of 5210 E. North St., sat In the county Jail. Hughes was awaiting removal to the State penal farm, Mrs. Carpenter to the woman's prison. Each was fined $1 and costs by Judge Frank J. Lahr and sentenced to ISO days late Tuesday. Mrs. Carpenter was < hargd with neglecting an S-year old daughter. and Hughes with contributing to the child's neglect, on affidavits tiled by Mrs. Hughes. Refuse to Pari T wanted others to know our story and to be warned not to break up homes.” Mrs. Hughes prefaced her tale. “I tried to prevent this. My husband has been 'running around' with Mrs. Carpenter for a year. I have a paper signed by him telling me how many times they wore together. He is an insurance collector —that Is how they met. "Last July when I found out about this I took my husband over to Mrs. Carpenter's house, where wo had a conference with Mrs. Carpenter and her husband, Elkaonn. I didn't want to file charges because of tho Carpenters' little girl. “Before that Mrs. Carpenter had been telephoning constantly and trying to talk to my husband. “Mrs. Carpetner said. 'I lovo him.’ My husband said he loved her. He admitted hugging and kissing. They would not. agree to give each other up.” Second Affidavit hn July 26, Mrs. Hughes filed an affidavit similar to that acted upon Tuesday. Action was held up by re quest for a jury trial, something which never has been held In the Marion County Juvenile court, which Hurty Plea< Unfavorable Report of Health Bill Brings Pathetic Scene in House, Dr. John N. Hurty, who gave twenty-six years to the advancement of public health in Indiana, saw one of the ambitions of Ids life crumble today with the defeat by the House of Representatives of his bill to re-or-ganize the public health system of the 1 State. Dr. Hurty for years has cherished the ambition to reorganize the health system on what he believed to be an efficient basis. He was a candidate for the Legislature for the purpose of bringing about the enactment of the bill. Standing before the House, his voice rising high with the feebleness of his years, he presented a pathetic figure as he argued and pleaded for his bill. Opponents of the bill expressed high regard for Dr. Hurty, hut their opposition to his measure, based on what they termed economy, was strong. Dr. Hurty denied the measure would bring more expenses, and Insisted in the long run it would result in the saving of thousands of fives and millions in money. The hill provided for the reorganization of the board of health to Include all classes interested in health work for the establishment of county and city boards of health and for the appointment of qualified all time health officers in their place. The bill was reported out by tho Committee on State Medicine and Public Health with a divided report, the majority favoring indefinite postponement and the minority, signed by five members, for passage. The House, by ballot, voted to reject the minority report, and on a viva voce vote approved the report for postponement. VACCINATION IS URGED Health Commissioner Says Smallpox Is Spreading. A warning against the spread of small pox in Indiana was issued by the State board of health today. Persons not already immune were urged to be vaccinated. Dr. William F. King, State health comniissione.’, said the disease is becoming much more prevalent and that it can not be controlled merely by quarantine because it is not recognizable in its early stages. Vaccination is an absolute preventive, he said.

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disposes of 4.000 cases a year, although guaranteed by law If asked. “After that conference, my husband went away for six months.“ Mrs. Hughes continued. “He kept writing letters telling me he loved me. But I found out he was writing to Mrs. Carpenter at the same time. “They had their chance. They would not stay apart.”

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Groundhog Fails to Get Sight of Fateful Shadow THE groundhog is out, and he's going to stay out. He failed to see his shadow today. That means no more cold weather this winter. The groundhog knows, take it from him. Every Feb. 2 he's been venturing forth to test the ’eather. Un-

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able to see his shadow for the clouds that hung over Indianapolis today, he knew it meant warm weather hereafter and he’s decided to stay out. But if he had seen his shadow, he would have turned right back into his dugout. For he knows, even though the sun is shining, we’d be due for six weeks more of wintry blasts. You can’t fool Mr. Groundhog TWO ESTATES PROBATED William F. \Vocher Leaves $2,500 in Personal Property. Two estates were opened in Probate Court today. Mi-s. Blanche B. Wocher, ThirtyFirst and Meridian Sts., w'as appointed administrator of the estate left by her husband, William F. Wocher, who committed suicide Tuesday. Assets were listed as $2,500 in personal property. Phillip Wilkinson was appointed administrator of the $25,000 estate left by Patrick J. Cahalaije, veteran real estate dealer, who di§d Jan. 28.

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Mr. and Mrs. Hughes have been married ten years. Mrs. Carpenter's mother-in-law today declared she knew nothing of the case and said she could not believe Mrs. Hughes’ story- She said Mrs. Carpenter always had been good to her husband and had helped him when he was out of work.

SMOKE PROBLEM ‘STUMPS’MAYOR Inspector May Go to Chicago to Study Plan, The city smoke inspector. Fred S. Beck, may be sent to Chicago for thirty days to study the workings of the city smoke ordinance and handling elimination of smoke there. This was announced after the mayor had taken two cops and started out to arrest some of the worst offenders against the Indianapolis smoke ordinance. A survey of the plant of the W. Washington St. station of the Merchants Heat and Light Company was made. After Shank was informed that the plant was equipped with the best stokers on the market and that the stacks smoked only when the fires were being cleaned, he admitted he did not see how an affidavit could be sworn out against the company. “This smoke proposition has me up a tree,” the mayor said. “I think I’ll let the building commissioner see what he can do. In the meantime, I believe it would be a good thing to send the smoke inspector to Chicago."

Lloyd George Says: The honor of Britain is involved in quick settlement of the empire’s debt to the United States. British pride and British credit demand an immediate and amicable settlement. You will want to read in full what Europe’s great statesman and England’s war premier thinks of the agreement entered into by the American and British debt-funding commissions and now one of the big questions before Congress. IN SATURDAY’S TIMES ' Order Yours Today Phone MA in 3500, Circulation Department.

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Miners' Wives in Ruhr Urge Men to Rise Against French Invaders—lnhabitants Grimly Wait Snapping of Restraint — Blue-Clad Soldiers Everywhere. By CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright, by United Press BERLIN, Feb. 2.—The people o ftke Ruhr valley have murderous sentiment in their hearts. The women are shedding tears of rage—not grief, and they are urging their men to rise against the long, horizon-blue columns of Frenchmen who go swinging through the streets of their towns, and bivouac in their public squares. The men are waiting grimly. They are about the same stamp as West Virginia miners—just as ready for battle. Something is

holding them back. There is no tell-, ing whether this restraint will snap. I have been over the whole Ruhr Industrial district. The French soldiers are everywhere, of course. The tramp of their hob-nailed boots over the cobbles or the jingle of :heir cavalry accoutrements are heard on all sides. The German people stand dumbly along the gutters, watching them ride past. In those crowds there are many men who. a few years ago, wore the gray garb of Germany’s army and marched deep into France. Now they appear content to stand aside. The French are fetching all the implements of war along with them—artillery, field kitchens, airplanes, machine guns, tanks, etc. In fact, the situation presents every element of war—except an enemy army. The next few weeks will tell whether such an army is going to spring to life from the ranks of those who now are satisfied with standing on the curbstone, watching the parade. Ruhr miners were instructed to hamper the proposed French plan in every possible way. New and secret means of hindering requisition of coal by the French were reported to have been worked out. Miners of the Saare valley voted .to strike to assist those of the Ruhr In withstanding French attempts to seize coal. The French customs line today extended from Dusseldorf to Duisherg. Oberhausen and Luenen. It was heavily supported with machine guns and artillery. Over the whole invaded district in the past month the United Fress correspondent heard only one story: “There will be a blood bath here, sooner or later. When desperation sets in, men and women will risk their lives against bayonets and machine guns rather than starve wretchedly.” Up United Press GERMAN MOB WRECKS FRENCH CONSULATE KOENIGSBERG, East Prussia, Feb. 2.—French members of the allied central commission were forced to remain in refuge in the city police station today, following riotous demonstrations by' German students and others which continued through the night. At 7 o'clock last evening a huge crowd gathered in the so-called Parade Square and surged toward the Hotel ICreutz, where the inter-allied commission was Installed. ‘TRIANGLE’CAUSES WOKS ARREST Wife, Searching for Spouse, Taken Into Custody. Police this afternoon arrested Mrs. Grace Hammond, 3, Cincinnati, Ohio, on charges of malicious trespass, carrying concealed weapons and vagrancy, after Mrs. Jessie Eichenberger, 131 E. Michigan St., said Mrs. Hammond threw stones through her front and rear door and threatened to “scratch the life out of you.” Mrs. Hammond, according to police, admitted she came here from Cincinnati and noon in search of her husband, Everett. Mrs. Eichenberger denied Hammon dwas at her house or had been there.

Forecast UNSETTLED tonight and Saturday. Probably light rain or snow. Much colder Saturday.

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32 NEW FIREMEN NEEDED TO GET INSURANCE SLICE Abandonment of Two Stations Also Recommended by Underwriters, Before Indianapolis can lower fire ; insurance rates it must have a minimum of thirty-two additional men in the city fire department: abandon at least two fire houses; adopt civil service for firemen and ii. general use more men and fewer pieces of apparatus. These were recommendations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters at a conference with the board of public safety, when the boari o.ade a formal request for lower insurance j rates. Fire Chief John J. O'Brien said he i did not believe additiohal men were : needed in the department. “On ac- | count of an ordinance before the city' j council asking sixteen more men in the department it probably would be i impossible to obtain the number rei quested,” O'Brien said. Ernest L. Kingston, president of | the safety board, sai-1 a bill proposing I civil service for firemen in Indiana cities and towns would be introj dueed in the Legislature, and if thia I failed the system would be put into I use in Indianapolis anyway. It was decided to draw a separate ; “shingle roof” ordinance to place beI fore the council immediately. The ! abolition of shingle roofs is incorported in the proposed building code, I which will not be introduced for some time. SPEEDWAY FRIENDS SAY TIDE TURNS Local Proponents Change Attitude, Proponents of the Moorhead Mali. rial day bill, which would _ ohibit the annual Speedway r and other comm rcialized sports on Memorial day, are yielding in the face of unexpected opposition, it was Indicated today. The bill has passed third readingin the Senate and .. .aits second reading in the House, together with possible extensive amendments members have said they might employ to delay action or to accomplish indefinite postponement. Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis, leader for the bUI i*i the House, hast changed his stand, it was reported. Other Indianapolis Representatives who were said to have changed their attitude to opposition were Miss Elizabeth Rainey, Luke W. Duffey and Dr. J. N. Hurty. Friends of the bill, at the time opposition became evident, declared Indianapolis citizens to be the only onea in the State unfavorable to the measure, From various points in the State, recently there have come reports of organized opposition and it is understood that Shelbyville organizations composed of fellow-townsmen of Perry Faulkner, State commander of the American Legion, under whosa auspices the bill was introduced, hava planned to voice an unfavorable note. Two organizations of the National Guard from Shelbyville will announce their sentiments in a letter to their representative, Charles A. Lowe of Waldron. Resolutions condemning the measure have been passed by the Masons” Contractors Association of Indianapolis. Eight Hour Day For Cops Evansville police, with the exception, of officers and certain attaches of tho department, would be employed on an eight-hour day basis through the provisions of a bill introduced in. the House today by Representative Harry M. Punshon of that city. ! . "eu to the committeo on cn. and towns. l