Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1923 — Page 1

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mm VIA LAGOER Sister and Brothers Forced to Porch of flaming Home, LOSS HEAVY W BLAZES Two Injured at Garage—Man Arrested When Farmhouse (s Destroyed. Four persons dressed in night clothes and wrapped in blankets were rescued by firemen from the roof of a porch of a burning home at 3219 X. New Jersey St. at 5 a. m. today. Firemen carried Miss Helen Seidel down a ladder. Dewey and Ben; min Seidel, her brothers, and David Honigfeld, a brother-in-law, descended the ladder. The house is a large three-story frame double residence. Maurice Tennant lives at 1217 X. New Jersey St., on the other side. Defective wiring was said to have etartec the fire in the rear of the Seidel home. It gained much headway before b.-ing discovered. As the fire ate its way through the kitchen, pantry and Into the dining room the (lames .and smr i: began to reach tilt sleeping looms on the second floor. Telephone Cut Oil Miss Seidel was in the bedroom directly over the burning kitchen. She awakened when she heard dishes falling In the pantry. Dewey Seidel, awakened by choking clouds of smoke In his room, thought of his sister. He reached her room and assisted her to the front part of the ho se Both were almost overcome by smoke. Wrapping themselves In blankets, they climbed to the roof of the porch. Honigfeld had attempted to the telephone to call the fire department, but smoke shut him off and he was forced to return to the second floor. Honigfeld and Benjamin Seidel then (Continued on Cage 33

TIDAL WAVE TOLL MAY REACH TEN Four Known Dead —Property Loss Is $100,000. : By United Press HONOLULU, Feb. 5. —Gigantic tidal waves sweeping the coast of Hilo Bay following earthquake disturbances Sunday took a toll of from ten to twelve lives, dispatches from the islands state. The known dead include a' child, swept from a cainpam. and three Japanese fishermen. The damage at Hilo, according to a conservative estimate, was SIOO,OOO. Many ships were damaged as they were caught in the lap of the huge wall of water sweeping in from the sea. VACCINATION IS ORDERED Three* Cases of Smallpox Reported at Lowell School. Three cases of smallpox at the James Russell Lowell public school have caused an order to be issued by the city board of health that the childred of the school be vaccinated as protection against spread of the disease. In a statement today, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board, said that the disease was not general over the city. “However,” Dr. Morgan said, "owing to the prevalence of the disease over the Suite and in Indianapolis, the health department issues a warning to all parents that they should lave their children vaccinated as soon as possible." Screams Rout Intruder Emma Randolph, colored, 1336 N. Missouri St., was awakened at 1 a. m. today by a colored man in her room. She screamed. The burglar ran. All rooms were ransacked. Nothing taken.

THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Probably light snow His ing temperature. Lowest tonight about 18 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m S 10 a. m 15 a. m. 8 11 a. m 18 8 a. m. 9 12 (noon) 23 9- zs ..... 11 Ip. nx. 24

TO MOTHER Tell Your Thoughts in Valentine Verse and Win Times Prize.

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Verse of every meter continued today to pour with each mail to the desk of the Valentine Editor of The Times. That Mother is not unappreciated is vouchsafed by the hundreds of testimonials to her loving kindness which are being prepared for submission to the judges in The Times' Valentine contest. fifteen dollars will go to the author of the best verse of eight lines or less. Five prizes of $2 are offered to the next best Valentines “To Mother.” The judges: Prof. John S Harrison, head of the Futler College English department; Miss Mary Dyer Benton of the Indianapolis Public Library, and John C. Mellett, short story writer and member of the Univ< rsity of Maine faculty. Have you longed for an opportunity to put into words your debt to your mother? Say it in a valentine verse, and mail it to the Valentine Editor of The Times. Here are two selected from the stack already received: To Mother 'Tis the love light in your eyes. O Mother Mine. That makes we want forever to be thine. Your face to me is fairer than the lilies in the field, You’ve been my trouble bearer, as a little tot I kneeled. You may live within a palace or a tent. You may be worth a million dollars or a cent. But the thing in all the world most highly prized Is the love light shining there, in Mother’s eyes. MRS NETTIE F. MULLER, al 6 S. Drover St. To Mother To you. oh mother sweet: Whose tender hands and weary feet Have guided me from day to day And smoothed my troubles all away, To you who gave mo birth. To you. the sweetest thing on earth. I send my only valentine, And can be sure your love is mine! MRS. CLARA PALMER THURSTON 564 West Drive, Woodruff PI.

CHILD AT PLAY IS BURNED SERIOUSLY Diretta Huddleson of Liberty Is in Hospital. Diretta Huddleson, 6, Liberty, Ind., is in a serious condition at the city hospital, as a result of bums received Sunday at the home of her nunt, Mrs. Charles Huddlson, 501 Birch Ave. The "girl was playing in the kitchen and her clothing caught fire from the stove. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Huddleson of Liberty. '

WOMAN, ON FIRE, HANGS TO SILL

Mrs, Lillian Ritchey Probably Fatally Burned When Coal Oil Stove Explodes,

Firemen found the flaming body of 1 Mrs. Lillian Ritchey, 48 hanging out j the second floor front window of her j home, 629 Lockerbie St., after a coal j oil stove explosion in the dining room, ) downstairs, today. She had dashed . upstairs and broken out the window, j Mrs. Ritchey is near death. Capt. Charles Britton and Firemen : Harvey Kepple and Robert Simms, I Pumper Company 7, tried to reach her DR. GRANT DECLARES HE IS NOT A PARROT New York Pastor Says He Became Clergyman to I)o Good. By United Xeics NEW YORK, Feb. s.—The Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, in defense of his doctrine liberalism, declared in a sermon Sunday: T did not accept the call of the church to repeat old, outworn and archaic creeds and dogmas,” he de- j dared. “I became a clergyman because it offered the greatest opportunity lO do the greatest good to my fellowmen.’’

Judge Clears Milk Dealers

Hay Rules State Companies Do Not Restrain Prices of Products, 35 FIRMS ARE ABSOLVED U. S. Attorney General Lesh Loses Suit to Enjoin Association. Finding for the Indiana .Manufacturers of Dairy Products in the ‘‘milk trust” case, Judge Linn D. Ilav of Superior court, held today prices of milk and milk products are not unduly high in Indiana, compared with those of other states. Thirty-five dairy products companies are mernlx-rs of the association. Attorney General U. S. Lesh asked an injunction recently to break up an alleged price-fixing conspriacy, and sought appointment of receivers for the member companies. “Restricting production has been the great evil in most combinations." said the judge, “but t : Ik production in Indiana has been increased 100 per cent. “Evidence shows that the Indiana Manufacturers was organized in i'.<!7 to develop all branches of the Indus try" and that a different system and practice was followed in different places. “Prices paid are no lower than those in surrounding States with which the association competes.” The trade war at Princeton. In which an outside company raised the price of cream and the association member retaliated by selling butter below market price was mentioned by Judge Hay. There probably were fair i usiness reasons for such isolated cases, he said. Uniform prices for ice cream in In-I dianapolls and the fact that ice cream companies rar< ly solicit one another’s customers wan not unlawful. Judge Hay said, as long as prices were f dr and production not limited. "If uniformity exists without en-j banned prices there is no restraint of trade,” he asserted. “Not. being satisfied from the evidence under the law in the case that ’lie purpose and operation of the defendants are to restrain competition, r-straln production and increase or reduce the pree of their products, the! finding is for the defendants.”

PLANS COMPLETE ON BRITISH DEBT Harding Will Ask Immediate Approval of Terms. Hu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. —Plans of congressional leaders were complete today for immediate consideration of the British war debt settlement, which I’resident Harding is expected to sub mit early in the week wfith a request that it be approved. House leaders hope to have the settlement approved tho week after presentation. Mercators Seek New Members “Bring a-Member-Day” w ill be observed by the Mercator Club Tuesday noon at the Spink-Arms. The club is engaged in a sixty-day membership campaign at a reduced rate.

through the house, but flames blocked them. They carried her down a ladder. Her husband, William, was notified at his work. Mrs. Ritchey was sent to the city hospital.

DO COLLEGE GIRLS ENJOY “PETTING?”

By RODNEY' F. DUTCH ER United News Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Feb. 5. —Do college girls engage in the great indoor-outdoor sport known as the petting party, and If so, how extensively and why? This composite question has suddenly arisen to agitate coeducational colleges throughout the Middle West, and particularly the University of Illinois. The old assertion that “some girls do and some girls don’t” has been cited, but that isn’t the half of it. Some parties to the controversy claim the “don’t” girls are extinct. The largest sorority at the University of, Illinois has Just voted on the

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JIMMIE AND HIS WIFE ‘Jimmie’ Ball, 80, Learned Tunes’ Usefulness When Passing Graveyard in His Youth,

4 4 qr T lIISTLING keeps up a \\ man’s courage,” says ' Whistling Jimmie. His real name is E. C. Ball. His address is wherever he takes off his ha t. Whistling Jimmie, who is 80, is a book agent for the Scribner Publishing Company. He has held his Job thirty years. "It takes a lot of courage to sell books; that’s one reason why I whistle,” explains Jimmie, who has many friends and national fame. "How did 1 get .started as a book agent? When I got. a Job I sat tn front of a wooden Indian at a cigar store llW*e In town. • • • 44 IT STARTED talking books to I that Indian. Ho got so tired of hearing me that he up and said, ‘l’ll take a whole set.’ “I thought a fellow who could sell a set of books to a wooden Indian could sell books to any normal human being. I’ve been at it ever since. “Sometimes I start out in the morning feeling pretty blue. But I start right nut whistling. “You just can’t stay blue long if you whistle. There’s something about whistling that takes the blues out of a fellow. You forget troubles. “A pessimist is a guy that sees the hole of a doughnut. An optimist sees the doughnut around the hole.

U ¥ used to live three blocks beyond Ia graveyard. Like other young fellows, I often went home late at night,. I always whistled as I passed that graveyard, to keep up my courage, and so I developed the whistling habit. "I have been told many times my whistling has helped others. Just the other morning as 1 was going downtown on an E. Washington St. car I was whistling as usual. When I started to get off an old woman stopped me and said. ‘You know that whistling of yours has helped me on my way today.’ "I always take my wife with me on my trips.”

simpler question whether college girls “pot on occasion.” Half voted “yes,” the rest “no.” Now the inspiration of this vote, and the tack in the chair which started all the shooting, was "Town and Gown,” a book of short, snappy sketches of college life. The authors are Lynn 'Montrose and Lois Seyster Montrose, two literary fledglings who once attended Illinois “U,” .and are married. They declare their work is an accurate portrayal of college life, that it is based on actual occurrences at Illinois, and applies to other universities as well. “Those who voted ‘no’,” Montrose insisted Sunday, on hearing the com-

Mrs. Ball Buffered a stroke of paralysis a few years ago and is an In- | valid. Her husband’s whistling has | been a source of encouragement to | her, she says. Before the interviewer left, Jimmie said: "Say, son. can't I sell you a set of o. Henry? I’m a poor college student working my way through school, and I have to sell seventeen thousand sets of books hero in Indianapolis to make my expenses.” UNIFORM PRICES FOR ILK ASKED Murray Introduces Bill Hitting Discrimination. Each Indiana milk dealer would be required to pay and charge uniform prices under a bill introduced today by Representative M. C. Murray. The county prosecutor and (he attorney general would bo required to bring criminal action against all violations, under the charge of discriminatory practices. PASSION PLAY WILL BE PRESENTED IN NEW YORK Contract for Famous Oberammergau Spectacle Has Been (Signed, By Ignited Neirn BERLIN, Feb. 5. —A contract has been signed whereby the famous Passion Play of Oberammergau will bo presented in New Y’ork next winter. Herscliel On Program William Herschel will be the chief speaker at 6:30 tonight at Iho monthly dinner of the Molivaine-Kothe Post, American Legion, at the Athenaeum.

plete returns from the Illinois Sorority, "are either big fibbers or homely.” It remained for Prof. S. O’Toole of Illinois to make a public issue of the petting party question. "College is a hard, sordid, practical sort of place and petting is its substitute for romance,” he said. “All of ’em pet. If a girl doesn’t pet a man can figure lie didn’t rush her right. “The vulgarity of their dress, their frankness, their cigarettes, their dancing, the things they read, the shows they see—a mj.d sex whirl.” Professor O’Toole \st an anxious

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FRENCH EXTEND LINE TO EDGE OF BLACK FOP,ESI Invaders Have Stranglehold on Entire Transportation System, BY CARL D. GROAT United Pres* Stuff Correspondent BERLIN, Feb. s.—The French ox tended their hold on German terri tory over the week-end and today consolidated positions that give them a stranglehold on rail transportation between Germany and Switzerland. Cavalry, infantry and artillery, pushed forward from the Keil bridge head to Offenberg and Appenweir. on the edge of Black Forest. The Frank-enfort-Bastiel railway lies in the French grip. The move, which was entirely un expected here, was declared by the foreign office to be a violation of the Versailles treaty, but the French office pointed out that the Germans have stopped two important Paris ex presses, the Orient and the ParisPrague, from crossing Germany. It is believed the new occupation is in the nature of a reprisal. It also gives the Freneli strategic control of Stuttgart, across the Black Forest. Trouble was reported from various parts of the Rhineland Sunday. A German ehild was shot, apparently accidentally by a French sentry at Duisberg. An unconfirmed report lrom Mayenco said nine Germans had been killed following a rail tie-up t ear that point, in which French troops were delayed and fired into a crowd. Disturbances started by communists in the Ruhr were broken up Ly French machine pim fire. COUNCIL TO VOTE ON TRAFFIC LAW King Predicts Passage of Ordinance Drawn by Wise. Indianapolis will have anew traffic code after the city council meeting tonight, said John E. King, president. The ordinanace was introduced at the last meeting by Councilman Wise. The ordinance making it an offense to appear in any public place wearing a mask on any day except Halloween probably will be left in committee, King said. The measure, said to be directed against the Ku-Klux Klan, was introduced by Councilman Ray. After a caucus Saturday on the ordinance permitting the T. It., I. & E. Traction Company to enter the commercial electric power business in Indianapolis, the council had come to no decision today. Other ordinances up tonight: Providing temporary loan to the city general fund of $300,000; providing license fee for garages in proportion to size; providing license fee on small coal peddlers. Bill Creates Wheat Board Hu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—A $300.000,000 wheat stabilibation board to guarantee a fair price for American farmers would be set up under a bill introduced in the Senate today by Senator Gooding, Idaho, Republican.

SEARCH WITHOUT WRIT IS UPHELD

Corporation Counsel Sanction s Visits Where Police Are Sure of Violation.

It is not necessary for police to have a search warrant to search a club and arrest persons whom they find violating the gambling laws, in the opinion of Taylor E. Groninger, corporation counsel.

eye toward the State Legislature, which votes appropriations to the university. “It is to be hoped,’’ he wrote “that the people of Illinois will be saved by their provincialism—saved from mistrust of their State University. The people do not generally read books. Perhaps they will not read this one. If our Legislature should read the book 1 can imagine them concluding that a State university is u ‘sink of iniquity.’ Whereupon, all this pother about appropriations would take on an amusing aspect.’’ But Mr. and Mrs. Montross insist that it’s all true.

Rockefeller Board Announces Gift to Start $1,500,000 Campaign—lndianapolis Must Raise s6oo,ooofor Endowment to Get Contribution. Butler University, on the eve of its $1,500,000 permanent endowment fund drive, was given $300,000 today by the Rockefeller general education board. William G. Irwin, president of the Butler foundation, announced receipt of the gift. Two funds, one for $900,000 for permanent endowment and the other for $600,000 for a building fund, compose the grand total in the campaign. The Rockefeller gift is made with the understand-

ing tha*- Butler will raise the remaining $600,000 of the endowment fund. Workers in the campaign announced the gift was the largest ever made to any school in Indiana under the circumstances. The Butler Foundation is a holding company to keep in perpetual trust the endowment funds of the college. It is governed by a board of Indianapolis business men. “Challenge to Indianapolis” “The Rockefeller gift, coming at the start of the campaign, is a challenge to Indianapolis to taise the remainder,” said Irwin. Butler compares with othei; schools in the West in academic work. Wallace Buttrick of New York, president of the general educational board said in explaining the gift. “Butler is fortunate in having an educator of the caliber of her president, Dr. Robert J. Aley,” said Dr.

Thoughtless! C. O. Sitritinger, 837 X. Bancroft Ave., is looking today for the burglar who left a door and window of his house open. Sitritinger wants to send the burglar a S2OO plumbing bill. Xothing was taken, tint the water pipes were frozen.

PAT COTS OP TOO COUNTY OFFICIALS State Board of Accounts Discusses Salaries. Salary adjustments for every’ county official in Indiana were being dis cussed by the State board of accounts toda y. From the deliberations will come a bill to be presented to the Legislature equalizing salaries in accordance with a resolution of the 1921 assembly. “No increases will be recommended," was the only indication given. It was stated that if the Legislature adopts the recommendations it will bring a saving of $200,000 to $300,000 a year. The salaries were based largely on population of the various counties, but tins basis lias been discarded in many instances when Senators and Representatives succeeded in having special ‘relief” bills enacted. MAYOR GETS THRILL: SPEEDING CAR IN CRASH Shank’s Auto, Chasing Fast Drivers, Hits Machine. Mayor Snank today knew how it feels to be on the wrong side of the street in an automobile accident. With his chauffeur and motor police he was chasing a speeder west in Thirty First St., late Saturday. Robert Newby, tlie chauffeur, saw a light truck driven by Dan Rinehart. 29, of 39 De Quincy St., corning south in Park Ave. Newby- swerved to the left to avoid the crash, but failed. Two wheels and the front fenders were torn off Rinehart's truck. No one was injured.

The question arose when several defendants in city court were discharged because it was proved that the officers had not been armed with search warrants. “One violation of the law’ in a person's home or at a club does not in itself create sufficient grounds for a raid, but where these bouses are known to be continually violating the law, it is the duty of the police to search the place and make arrests whether they have warrants or not,” Groninger said. ZERO WEATHER BRINGS 200 FIRES IN CHICAGO Two Men Found Frozen to Death on Coldest Day. By United Press CHICAGO. Feb. s.—Two hundred fires which forced more than 150 families to the street were reported dur lng the last twenty-four hours —the coldest day this winter. Two men were frozen to dea,th and six others seriously injured fcy the cold.

Forecast MOSTLY cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Probably light snow. Rising temperature. Lowest tonight 18.

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Buttrick. “Under his administration it should have the same collegiate recognition that Amherst and Dartmouth have in the East. “In Moulding Character” “Business men should contribue liberally to the Butler endowmen campaign. The university will be the greatest single factor in moulding character of the younger generation here. Indianapolis should be one of the greatest educational centers in the Middle West.” The Rockefeller bequest is the first large gift to ButSer since a contribution of $50,000 last June, college officials said today. J. W. Atherton, financial and executive secretary of the endowment committee, will direct the campaign from the downtown Butler office, 1103 Fletcher Savings and Trust Company.

R MIR Complete Collapse of Lausanne Parley Makes Situation Critical. Hu United Pres s LONDON, Feb. 5. —British air forces will bomb Angora, capital of Turkey, if the Turks attack Mosul, it was understood today as plans of the war office and tho cabinet in the Near East crisis were partially disclosed. It is stated authortatively that the situation created by Turkey’s recalcitrat.cy and Marquis Curzon's withdrawal from Lausanne is extremely serious. Allied diplomats sought to avoid hostilities following complete collapse of the Lausanne conference. Britain, having left Lausanne be* cause the Turks refused to sign a, peace treaty drawn there after months of negotiations, now plans to make formal representation to Turkey through Ismet Pasha, warning the Kemalists to maintain the Mudania armistice pact or the British are fully prepared to defend their interests in the Near East. The situation as between Britain and France is described as “bad.” The Bonar Law government is Increasingly angry at the French because of Poincare’s note to Angora* saying France would negotiate with Ismet Pasha despite a British ultln atum. It is understood protest on this point already' had been made. There are three possibilities open according to w r ell informed British sources: 1. The Turks still may sign; American Ambassador Child is endeavoring to persuade them to, and the allies have left secretaries at Lausanne in case Ismet Pasha decides to do so; 2. Further negotiations may taka place elsewhere. 3. Turkish hot heads may force* w’ar.

SANITARY BOARD SAVED BY HOUSE Fight to Abolish Commission Is Lost. The House today accepted a majority report of the city of Indianapolis committee recommending for indefinite postponement a bill which provided for the abolishment of the Indianapolis sanitary commission. The minority was composed of Representatives Duffcy and Harrison, author of the bill. the House had voted to accept the report, Hurty of Indianapolis and Harrison engaged in a lenghty dialogue. Representative Schwartz, eager to be heard, interrupted. “Mr. Speaker,” said Schwartz, “may I interrupt this interesting colloquy?” “Yes. Much obliged,” Speaker Morgan replied. Sister blissing 35 Years Mrs. Ella Lumpkins of Joplin, Mo., today asked Indianapolis police to search for her sister, 55, whom aha last saw thirty-five years ago in Ava, M*~s. Sir ’’ her sister, whoso name was Hilda Hammon, married a man named Fred Lundreth. *