Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 236

Survivor of Mine Blast, Which Took Scores of Lives, Tells of Vigil

(Copyright, 1023, by United Press) DAWSON, New Mexico, Feb. 10. —Dawson today heard from the lips of Charles Kantal and Feline Martini, miners who walked miraculously as though guided by a divine hand from their tomb a “mile below sunshine,” the story of the mine disaster in which 122 men were trapped. Kantal and Martini for sixteen hours kept a grim vigil in char-

MS QUIT BLUFF AND TALKPEACE Back-Down of Moslems May Mean Resumption of Conference, BULLETIN By Untied Press LABIS, Feb. 10.—France and Belgium today sent a joint note to Germany stating officials of that Nation' would be barred from the Ruhr valley hereafter. This was due, the note said, to the fact that Chancellor Cuno caused dangerous excitement in the occupied territory. By United yetrt LONDON, Feb. 10. —Immediate danger of hostilities in the Near East has passed. The complete back-down of the Turkish commander at Smyrna Friday led to belief in official circles that the Near Eastern peace conference, which broke down at Lausanne when the Turks refused to sign the treaty drafted by the allies, will soon be resumed. Admiral Nicholson, head of the British forces in Asia Minor, together with other allied commanders, has induced the Turkish authorities to agree that the status quo for the fleet of the entente wili be maintained until the question Is settled diplomat;cally. Under this agreement, the allies have the right to patrol the waters of Asia Minor with their battleships, as they have done ever since the Mudanla armistice was agreed upon. Thus the Turks, after serving an ultimatum on the allies to evacuate all warships of 1,000 tons or more, have now kuit their blustering and bluff and are apparently willing to talk. U. S. ADMIRAL URGES PEACE Tells Isniet Pasha Allies Are Anxious to Avoid War. By United Press PARTS. Feb. 10. —Rear Admiral Mark Bristol, commanding the United States vessels in the Near East, boarded Ismet Pasha’s train at Venice and assured the Turkish diplomat that the allies are most anxious for peaee, the Fetit Parisin said today. Bristol informed Ismet the allies insisted that rapid conclusion of a treaty was necessary to Turkey’s own interests. FRENCH EXTEND LINES Troop* Advance Toward Kadevortmvald, Advices Say. By United Press BERLIN, Feb. 10. —The French are extending their troop advance from the neighborhood of Elberfeld and Tennepe toward Radevormwald, it was reported in advices received from Duseldorf today. JUDGE KNAPP IS DEAD Operations Fail to Stay Fatal Illness of .Jurist. By l T nited Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.—Judge Martin A. Knapp of the Circuit Court of Appeals, died here early loday. Judge Knapp underwent two operations within the past ten days for an intestinal disorder, but neither was successful. CLD ~FIDDLERS* SOUGHT “Turkey in the Straw,” Will Be Vogue in Irvington. The person who can fiddle “Turkey* in the Straw" best will be most envied at the Warren Township Farmers’ Institute in Carr’s Hall, Irvington tonight. Twenty prizes, amounting to SIOO are offered in the “fiddling” contest. Dr. Carl Winters talked on farm organization and James H. Lowry on farm beautification today.

THE WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis anil vicinity is partly cloudy lor.ighi and Sunday. Probably much change in temperature. I>>west la to 2U decrees. HOURLY TEMPEKATURK. 6 a. m 16 10 a. m. 24 T a. m 16 11 a. m 27 8 a. m........ 17 xi (noon) 27 9 a. in. 19 1 p. m........ 29

nal shaft of Thelps-Dodge No. 1 mine, near where 120 of tlieir comrades, also imprisoned, lay dead and dying or waiting for the air to be pumped in. It seemed that all the pathos of the Dawson tragedy centered about the little box-like Kantal home today. Weeping women and wide-eyed children gathered around Kantal and Martini to hear about the fate of the others entombed. Mrs. Kantal smiled in thanksgiving. She tried to comfort women who came to him with the fearfully spoken question:

Times Artist, Braving Legislative Crossfire, Obtains Intimate Views of Leading Warriors

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HEREWITH are sceues from the '’battle front’* at the Indiana Statehouse where Democrats and Republicans are at grips. The artist, braving vocal gas, hot air and other legislative weapons, went into the “trenches” and caihe out with these pictures. The gentleman in the upper left hand corner is Oscar A. Ahlgren, Republican floor leader. Oscar is the commanding officer of the majority side. “Second that motion,” he will command some one in his immediate

TWO SENATORS BALK ON MORNING SESSION Withdrawal of Lutz and Sweeney From Chamber Prevents Saturday Meeting, Urged by Branch,

Withdrawal of Senators Jacob Lutz ! .and John Sweeney, both Democrats, ; from the Senate chamber this morn- '■ ir.g, prevented the upper House : from having a meeting today. Lutz and Sweeney were present on first roll call at 10 a. m., but refused to stay until 10:30 as requested by Lieutenant Governor Branch. The second roll call at 10:30 showed j thirty-three members present, one less

SKIN INFECTION WAVE HITS CITY Morgan Warns of Spreading Disease, Not unlike Job’s plague of boils, Indianapoolis is suffering a rnild wave of virulent skin infections, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, said today. No estimate of the number of cases was made, but Dr. Morgan said the infection is rather general. Cases are severe, persistent, and develop in rare cases into light blood poisoning. The infection starts with a small scratch, break in the skin or pimple and is similar to boils and in the worst cases like carbuncles. “Any person who has the disease should be careful about using towels or linen used by others as the infection is very transmissible,” Morgan said.

Mother Contest Closes Tonight The Times’ Valentine Contest closes at midnight tonight. If you care to contribute your tribute to mother it must be mailed in time. Several con trihutions and the prize list are on the Editorial Page in this edition.

“Did you see my man dovn there?” The miner, his face begrimed, gesturing with his gnarled hands, todd hds story to the United Press in broken English. He held his two boys close. “I was loading into a car about a mile Inside the mine entrance,” Kantal said. “A funny sound was suddenly' coming from the distance and we knew what it was. Before Feline or I could turn or lay down, it was upon us —the explosion. 'lt was as though somebody fired searing hot air from a cannon. It carried rocks and dirt and coal like feathers through the passes. “ ‘Jesus Christ!’ I heard Feline say.

neighborhood when it is necessary quickly to cut off the retreat of the Democratic forces. Directly in front of Oscar is “Doc" William R. Phillips, who commands the “hospital corps” and who displayed courage under fire hy Introducing amendments to the appropriation bill so fast nobody knew what was happening except the speaker and a few of the better drilled Republicans. Below is Speaker Morgan, generalissimo of the Republican forces, who uses with effectiveness the most potent weapon of legislative warfare, the steam roller.

! than a quorum. When the first roll call at 10 showed only twenty-eight present. President Branch refused to recognize a motion of Senator Miller, of Indianapolis, to adjourn until Monday, and ordered a re ess until 10:30. Although seven senators came in soon after first roll call, the withdrawal of Sweeney and Lutz made a quorum impossible. A heavy rush of business had been on the Senate calendar for today.

516,814 TAKEN BY PAY POLL BAITS Four Robberies in Chicago and Detroit Net Rich Haul, Bn United /’rets ■ CHICAGO, Fob. 10. —Payroll robbers today obtained $5,444 in daring holdups here. Three masked robbers held up the cashier of the 11. AlcFarlan Auto Ilody Company and escaped with a satchel containing $4,444. j Two men later held up the cashier | of the A1 Smith Bakery and obtained j SI,OOO. \SZ i it it id press , DETROIT. Mich.. Feb. 10.—A holdj up of a pay car of the Detroit Twist • Drill Company today netted four ! bandits $8,400. i Bn l ii<t< 'I Press DETROIT, Feb. 10.—Yegg men cracked the safe of the. Colonial Theater here and escaped with $3,000 I today. TO OBSERVE LINCOLN DAY P legislature Plans Joint Session Monday Morning. Houses of the State Legislature will meet in joint session in the House chamber at 11 a. rn. Monday to participate in an observance of Lincoln's birthday anniversary. A special program is being arranged. Both houses will convene at 10 a. m. and adjourn later foe the joi at meeting.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 1923

“I was thrown head over heels against a coal car nearly buried with dirt and fire rock. When I came to, I crawled about with my flashlight and found Feline. “The mine lights were out. Feline had a water bucket that somehow hadn’t been turned over. We tore the bottom of our sweaters, soaked them in water and tied them around our nose and mouth. “Then we just sat there by the water bucket and waited. We knew we were dead men if we moved and got into the current of gas. “I turned off my flashlight tr save the battery.

The two husky individuals in he lower right hand come are leaders of the Democratic forces. Thurman A. Gqttschstk is the commanding general, but there are evidences that John \V. Hitch is his right hand man. Kirch knows more about the appropriation bill and the State Reformatory than almost any other Democrat. The “action picture" in the upper right is that of Chief Doorkeeper Everett Newlln, who attempted to mediate between the warring factions the ether day. He is seen chasing a fleeing Democrat down a corridor.

PRECIOUS TABBIES FLEE FROM CAGES Owners of Valuable Animals at Point of Despair, Five hundred dollars worth of cats escaped from their cages in the Indianapolis Poultry and Cat Show in Tomlinson Hall last night and enjoyed unusual freedom until frantic search by officials and employes today finally revealed their whereabouts. . “Everybody though their cats were stolen. I almost died of heart failure,” exclaimed Mrs. D. H. Alden, secretary of the Indianapolis Cat Club. Lavender Sceptre, valued at S2OO by his owner, Dr. Austin Middleton of Louisville, was finally discovered sunning himself in a window of the hall. Others were found hiding in boxes. As the cats fine by one were dragged out of their hiding places they reluctantly took their places in cages to be admired today by record crowds at the show. The show will close at 6 p. m. Sunday. PETITIONS TO BE HEARD Six Ask Changes in' City Zoning Ordinance. Six petitioners for changes in the city zone ordinance to permit construction of buildings now prohibited, will be heard by the board of zoning appeals Tuesday, Lawrence V. Sheridan, executive secretary, said today. The petitioners: Spickelmeier Fuel and Supply Company, Polar Ice and Fuel Company, L. H. Weaver, John Hagel, L. W. Lewis and John 1-1. Lar-

Young Millionaire lakes Clerk’s Job to Make Good’

Bn United Press lIC A GO, Feb. 10.—Working in self-infilcted poverty to prove he can make good, Vincent J. Lamb, 20, Denver, millionaire, was discovered here today writing quotations on a stock board at the B. L. Koppenhagen brokerage linn. His salary is $lB a week The youth has legally arranged to have his $5,000,000 estate and its income withheld until he proves he is 'a man” by earning SIO,OOO. “ You see I made a fool of myself

"God! It was silent, dead down there, a mile away from the sunshine and trapped like rats. “I turned the light on my watch once, but it had been broken. After that we just sat there in the blackness and didn’t use the light unless we had to. “We wet the cloth bandages again. “It was as though years went by. I wondered if we had escaped suffocation only to starve. “We couldn’t talk because of the bandages over our mouths —so we just sat there. “Then I prayed and thought of my boys, George and Nick and my wife.

NEIGHBOR YOUTHS TELL OF WARNING BOYSfiOT BY COP ; Detectives File Report on Tragedy Which Cost Life of Russell Beyle, That Russell Beyle, 16, of 4330 Boulevard PI., who died of a bullet wound inflicted by one of two policemen chasing him as a prowler, went to the Mutual Service Association grounds, (111) W. Forty Second St., to “watch women,” is the assertion o£ three neighbor youths, as quoted jn a report today to Inspector John Mul- ' Un. It was made by Detectives l)e liossette and Schaffner. Eugene I.awreiu-e, it:-if Sunset Avo.; William Hunt, 4244 Rookwood Ave., and Lawrence Jenson, v O4 \\ FortySecond St., told the investigators they warned Beyle to remain away from the building! Grace \Yrigid Quoted The detectives' report also gave the story of Miss Grace Wright, superintendent of the association, which coincided with the accounts of the patrol- | men. She and fivo other women in the j building at the time of the shooting ) said a prowler they saw Thursday j night answered the description of the person who has annoyed them since August. The women sai l they had called police five times, but the prowler escaped each time. Police on Duty Police Chief Rikhoff announced the two policemen would continue on dutv 1 pending the decision of Coroner Kob- ! inson. j Beyle, a Technical High School student and son of Oliver F. Beyle, died ! at the city hospital Friday afternoon. Patrolmen Daily and Albers say they saw Beyle hun and hide behind a tree and then start to run again. When he failed to heed their command to halt, each policeman fired three shots. One bullet hit Beyle. GEO. REIS OS TRIAL BY JURY Lawyer Prepares for Hearing in Attack Case, Request for a jury trial was made by George Remus, Cincinnati attorney today in Criminal Court. He was indicted for an alleged attack on Naseem M. Shamaas, also of Cincinnati, with a walking stick Oct. 1, 1922. Trouble was said to have been over a woman. Remus was convicted last year in Federal Court in Cincinnati on a charge of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. He lias appealed that case. Last year Remus was indicted by the Federal grand jury here on similar charges. He is said to have offered enormous bribes to Bert C. Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana, and other prohibition officers. ('’uses against Remus grew out of withdrawals of whisky from the Squibbs warehouse at Lawreneeburg.

and was spending money like water,” he said. “Then I got married to Miss Grace Ives, the daughter of on official of the First National Bank of Denver. She took me in hand and I decided the only way to make good was to shut myself off from my income, so I did. “I got this job through an ad in the paper. It won t be long until I get something better and I'll have the SIO,OOO in two or three years.” Airs. Lamb is helping out the fam-

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“Then suddenly I felt a breath of fresh air in my face. “I touched Feline and we took off our bandages. The air was sweet. We knew that they were pumping it in and we were saved. “We jumped to our feet, but it was painful to walk because of our bruises and we had been cramped so for hours. But after a while we came to the shattered entrance of the mine and walked out again on earth. “They cheered and yelled as we walked out of the shaft, but some of them were crying.” The women folk and children that had crowded around to hear the

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MRS. LOUISE LEEDS, MILLIONAIRES WIFE, I IMPS 10 DEATH Sister of Princes Anastasia Huris Self From Fourth Floor Window, It!) United I'rrss NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Louise 11. Leeds, 55. wife of Warner M. Leeds, -millionaire tin manufacturer and sisj ter-in law of the Princess Anastasia of Greece, jumped from ‘ e fourth story of her home in the millionaire colony of the “East Sixties” here today and was instantly killed. She had been afflicted with mental trouble for some time and had returned last Thursday from a sanitarium in charge of a nurse. When the nurse entered her room this morning, she found her standing at the window and before she could i restrain her, Mrs. Leeds jumped to the street. Before her marriage to Mr. Leeds, she .vas Mrs. John G. Moore. Her husband and an 8-year-old son, George, survive. Leeds was formerly a resident of i Richmond and El wood, Ind. CHURCH TO HONOR VICTIM OF MAINE Services Planned on Anniversary of Sinking, Memorial services of Harry J. I Keyes, who lost his life on the battleship Maine in Havana harbor, Feb. | 15, 1898, will be held at the Fletcher j Place M. E. Church, Fletcher and Virginia Aves.. at 10:45 a. m. Sunday, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. Keyes, a seaman on the ill fated ship, was the only child of Mrs. J. J. Turner, 708 N. New’ Jersey St. and a member of the Fletcher Place Chui-oh. The services will be in charge of the Rev. J. B. MaHaffy, pastor. Veterans of the Spanish and World Wars, and old soldiers and sailors have been invited to attend the service. The body was sent home two years after the sinking of the ship and interred in Crown Hill Cemetery.

ily fortunes by malting her own way as a movie actress in Los Angeles. The estate which Lamb inherited was from an uncle, Patrick O’Connor, who was formerly president of the Board of Trade in Omaha. Charles Craine, manager of the brokerage company for which Lamb worked, declared he had no idea who the young clerk was. “And it won’t make any difference now, I know,” he said. “If he wants to get ahagd with us he’ll have to show ability.”

miners' story, sighed as he finished. Kantal smilingly agreed to a photographers’ request to pose for a snapshot. A third youngster struggled to join the Kantal boys as they lined up. “Juan, come here,” a young Mexican woman called. “They don’t want your picture. You you’re just an orphan kid now.” Juan looked wonderingly at his mother and the tears in her eyes. While newspapermen made his photograph and that of the Kantals, a mechanical piano in a little boxlike house next door that was a counterpart of the Kantal home,

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JUDGE ANDERSON GIVES TWO KOBYS JAILSENTENCES Younger Brother Released on Promise to Report to District Attorney, Sam Koby. proprietor of a soft drink saloon at 427 W. Washington St., was sentenced to six months in jail and given a fine of SIOO by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today. Koby and his brothers Lsadore and Benjamin changed their pleas of not guilty, entered on arraignment day. Feb. 2. to guilty, on charges of violating the Federal prohibition law. Isadore was given a four months jail sentence and a $lO fine. The case of Benjamin, 16. a student at Shortridge high school, was taken under advisement. He w r as ordered to report to Homer Elliott, United States district attorney once a month. Early in the proceedings on motion of Elliott, Judge Anderson nolled the third count of the indictment, charging maintaining a nuisance at 427 W. Washington St. When it was pointed out he could not impose both fine and jail sentence on the other eounts Judge Anderson ordered the nolle set aside and gave Sam anil Isadore a choice of pleading guilty to the third count or standing trial. They then pleaded guilty. Isadore recently made an affidavit charging Louis Wein, general prohibition agent working with William P. Evans, county prosecutor, with selling him whisky. The Kobys were a storm center in the break between Evans and officials of the Federal prohibition department, which followed. Benjamin Koby wept in court.

SPEED CHARGES CAUSE DEAN ALBEE A BAD DAY . Wanted on More Serious Charge in City Court. The troubles of Dean Albee. 28. from “somewhere in Illinois,” living at the Spencer House, only began today when he was arrested for speeding down N. Illinois St. Lieutenant Johnson said he recognized Albee in city court as a man wanted on a warrant foi the theft of a SSOO automobile from the Waltam-Deane Company. The warrant was signed by Walter Werde, who said he was Dean’s partner. FIVE CITY MULES TO GO “Brainless" and “Black Hawk” Included in List. The board of works today petitioned Circuit Court to appoint appraisers to value five city mules, which are to be sold. The mules are: Black Hawk, Brainless, Hog. Hank and Dick. Judge H. O. Chamberlain appointed Matthew H. Camden. Harry Rosenthal and Timothy P. Sexton appraisers. Theft of sls Reported Edna Titus, 829 Udell St., reported to the police today that a purse containing sls was taken from her handbag on an elevator William IT. Block’s store.

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Sunday. Probably light snow. Not much change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

started playing in tin-panny syncopation. “ ‘Leave Me With a Smile.’ “You are not going back into the mine any more, are you?” the interviewer asked Rental. Rental looked puzzled. "Why, sure, I’m a miner.” Mrs. Rental smiled. Bodies of 46 of the 122 men entombed had been recovered today. With only two survivors, the fata | of the other 74 remained unknown, j Little hope of rescuing them alive ! was held. Rescue workers penetrated far back | in the mine.

Passengers Rush for Exits a$ Brakes Fail to Hold on Slippery Tracks, COACH TURNED ON SIDS Traffic Delayed by Collision at College and Sutherland Avenues. Four persons were injured at 5:45 a. m. today when south* bound College Ave. street ear No. 857 crashed into the side of College Ave. car No. 842, at College and Sutherland Aves. Slippery tracks were blamed. Car No. 842 was turning west to go around the loop at Twen-ty-seventh St. The south-bound | ear struck No. 842 near its rear : trucks. Tlie front vestibule of No. B*7 was splintered and No. 842 was ; lifted off the front and rear : trucks. It turned over on its side. THE INJURED MRS. MAY ML'RPIIY, 53, of 4612 Winthrop Ave., face scalded, body bruises and severe nervous shock. Taken to city hospital. JOHN C. BLANCHARD, 49, or 4607 Winthrop Ave.; face and hands cut by broken glass. Went home. CLYDE S. DAVIS, 615 Dorman St., motorman on ear No. 857; cut on fare and head, painfully bruised. Taken to city hospital. OTTIS WHITE, 2004 College Ave., conductor car No. 857; ankle sprained. Taken to city hospital. The derailed car was a Twenty-Sev-enth St. coach of the College Ave. line. T. S. Edwards, 1415 College Ave., was motorman, and Fred Mall, 3539 E. Walnut St., conductor. They : were the only persons on the car. Eleven Passenger* The register on car No. 857 showed eleven passengers, who included Blanchard and Mrs. Murphy. Jerald Blanchard, 4607 Winthrop Ave., and Robert Spillman Jr., 3908 Carrollton Ave., two of the passengers, wero known to be uninjured. The othera left before the police emergency squad arrived. The inside of the southbound car was a picture of confusion. Seats were knocked from their supports, newspapers were scattered. One passenger lost a pair of eyeglasses, another a pair of gloves in their haste to reach the rear door. The front door was blocked by the splintered wreckage of the vestibule. Brakes Fail to Work Motorman Davis of the southbound car said he put on the brakes, but the car would not stop because of the slippery rails, due to snow. Motorman Edwards said: “I saw the southbound car coming. It is down grade from the bridge apd it was unable to stop. I could see shooting from under the wheels. I tried to get my car in the clear, but It was on a curve and I could not use the sand.” Conductor Mall ran forward, probably saving himself from serious injury. The wreck blocked southbound traffic at a time when many persons were waiting for cars to go uj, work. City Hall io Close Monday All city hull offices will be closed Monday on account of Lincoln’s birthday. Mayor Shank said today. Business of th<* board of public works will be postponed until Wednesday.

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