Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 237

SIX DAYS AND SUNDAY— WHICH DO YOU PREFER?

SIX days a week Indianapolis residents breathe atmosphere like that shown in the photograph on the left of this page. The view was taken looking northeast from the monument. “We have no proper ordinance to combat the evil,” say city authorities, while certain factories, office buildings, the Statehnuse, many apartments and public utilities belch increasing clouds of smoke.

GERMANS DENIED RUHR OUTPUT

LBN MEMORIAL AT unm HE ASKED Roscoe Kiper in Euiogy to Martyred President on Sixty-Sec-ond Anniversary of Visit to Assembly.

Appointment by the Governor of a commission of nine persons and a legislative appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of a tract of twelve acres of ground at Lincolnville. Ind., where Abraham Lincoln spent his boyhood days, will be sought by the Indiana Lincoln Memorial Association, it was ' decided at a meeting today at the Statehouse. Representative Albert J. Wedeking of Dale, Spencer County, and Senator Charles J. Buchanan of Indianapolis, members of the association, probably will present the bill. A motion was adopted at the meeting providing for the placement In the f present Statehouse of a gold star which will mark the approximate spot in the old Statehouse where the Lincoln body lay in state on its trip to Illinois for burial. Stxty-two years, to the very hour, after Abraham Lincoln addressed h‘ joint session of the Indiana Legislature, the Hoosier Assembly again met in joint session today to honor the memory of the great President. Kiper Chief Speaker Roscoe Kiper of Boonville, former State Senator and a student of the life of Lincoln, was the principal speaker at today’s ceremonies. Emmett F. Branch. Lieutenant Governor, ! r resided and Governor McCray made a short talk. The Governor spoke of the fact that Lincoln spent fourteen years in India na. “It is surprising,” he said, “that we took so long to realize how close .Lincoln was to this State.” Kiper referred to Lincoln as “one | of the pillars of our temple of j democracy." Inspiration for Today “It is well that we in this day of i strife and dissension, pause and drink j deeply at the fountain of patriotic inspiration and gain confidence to meet the problems that are before us.” he said. "Lincoln lias sunk deep into the subconsciousness of the American people. “How unfortunate it would havej been if we had a background, not of Washingtond and Lincoln, but of a Napoleon, a Caesar, a Frederick the Great, or a Peter the Great. If we k had such a background of the spirit of * conquest I wonder where America would be today.” Supreme Optimist Kiper said Lincoln had the character of a supreme optimist. “When clouds of rebellion were hovering the thickest, this man could see through a rift a harbinger of victory and a prophesy of a future of greatness for the Republic.” Kiper pointed out that Lincoln lived in Indiana from the time he was 7 until he was 21 and that the Hoosier j State had a great share in forming his \ character. He told of the journey of i the Lincoln family to Indiana, of its j settlement in Spencer County, of Lin- j coin's association with great men who ' lived in this part of the State and of 1 his development into manhood. He said Lincoln in his associations Bad many opportunities usually overlooked. VETERAN RECALLS HONOR Violinist Was Honor Escort for Body of Emancipator. Col. John A. Pat tee. 78. a veteran of the Civil War, is one of those selected as an escort of honr when the body of President Lincoln was taken from the Statehouse at Springfield, IIL, to Its last resting place. Colonel today, Lincoln’s birthday, recalled the honor. Colonel Pattee still is appearing in public as an entertainer, and is playing old-time tunes on his violin at the Palace. f THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is probably rain tonight and Tuesday. Rising temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m........ 25 10 a. m 32 7 a. m........ 2611 a. m........ 34 8 a. m........ 28 12 (noon) ...... 36 9 a. iil.wm.. 29 1 p. m. ... 88

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Hoppe to Write for Times Willie Hoppe, the world’s champion balk-line billiard player, has diagrammed his eight hardest shots especially for The Indianapolis Times billiard players and fans. And he tells you how to make them. The first article by Hoppe appears on today’s sport page. There will be one a da} 7 . In addition, in tomorrow’s Times Hoppe will give you the “Dozen Billiard Dont’s” that have helped to make him champion. Every billiard player will want to follow this series, cut out the diagrams, and try out the shots! You’ll do well to master one an evening! The billiard master recently appeared in exhibition matches at Cooler's No. 1 with Charles Peterson.

OFFICERS DEFEND FIRING AT YOUTH Coroner Begins Inquest Into Fatal Shooting, The two policemen involved in the fatal shooting of Russell Beyle, 16, of 4330 Boulevard PL, testified before Coroner Paul F. Robinson today they fired two shots into the air before shooting at the boy. The shooting occurred when Beyle was found in the grounds of the Mutual Service Association, 610 W. For-ty-Second St., Thursday night. Three women who live at the house, Misses Grace Wright, Xan Shea and R. H. Casseldine, have been subpoenaed to appear Tuesday. CELEBRATION IS PLANNED Postal Employes From AH Over State Invited Here. Postal employes of the State will be invited to a celebration at the Hotel Denison on Washington's birthday, local Xo. 130. Xational Federation of rostoffice Clerks, has decided. The principal speaker will be Thomas P. Flaherty of Washington. secretarytreasurer of the national federation. The arrangements committee is composed of Arthur Haught, chairman; James A. Xutt. John Deupree, Elmer Tucker and Emerson Gilchrist. The following committee will arrange for the State convention here April 16. Albert Gratbach, chairman; Claude Harris, A. W. Leary, A. W. Hamilton and Russell Schultz. War Savings Stamps Redeemed War savings stamps to the amount of 56.21P.40L20 were redeemed in Indiana during January, according to Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. About 15 per cent was reinvested in treasury certificates, he said. New Deputy Named Kenneth Matheny of New Albany today was appointed deputy collector in the income tax division by M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue, to succeed Miss Mary Par sons of Indianapolis, resigned.

YEGGS TAKE sl2l ■ FROM SAFE; MISS 120,11 IN VAULT Mercantile Discount Corporation Office Entered Via Balcony, Yeggmen knocked the combination ; off a small safe in the office of the | Mercantile Discount Corporation, 231 ; X. Pennsylvania St., and got $131.28 | some time since Saturday noon. Motor Policemen McClure and Thompson found today the burglars entered a stairway at 223 N. Pennsylvania St., jimmied a door leading to a balcony overlooking the olliee and descended to the first tloor. No attempt was made to enter a vault In which, according to W. B. Denison, president, was $20,000 in bonds payable to bearer. The bonds were transferred today to lock boxes In a local bank. Postage stamps and checks were not molested by the robbers. CARELESS DRIVER HELPS POLICEMAN Autoist Not Arrested When Cop Gets Two After Chase, "If that guy had not parked his ear ; wrong 1 never would have caught those i two birds,” remarked Sergeant Halstead, between pants, as he slated Sam Wernke, 21, and Tommy Murphy, 21. of 1138 McClain PI., on charges of intoxication, resisting an officer and vagrancy. Halstead was called by the proprietor of a restaurant near Illinois and Maryland Sts . who claimed the two i men were stacking up the furniture |in the place. As Halstead drew near ! they loft and after a couple of laps j around the block ran into the trap I set when an automobile driver drove the head of his car at a forty-five degree angle against, another, on Kentucky Ave. The driver was not arrested for failure to park right. TRIAL IN KILLING OPENS | Prisoner Claims He Shot Neighbor in Self-Defense. ' Trial of William Gibbs, colored, 33, i rear of 438 W. North St., on a charge j of first degree murder began today In ,j Criminal Court. He is accused of i killing John Caldwell, colored, another resident of "Rag Alley,” as the north | and south street between Fayette and 1 West Sts., is called. I Evidence showed Gibbs ordered Cald I well to cease cursing while in the ! Gibbs yard. Caldwell, a one-lid man, started to run and tripped. As he sprawled on the ground, it is alleged Gibbs shot him. Gibbs claimed self-defense. For State Flag Display Indiana’s official flag would be displayed immediately beneath the United States flag on the dome of the Statehouse throughout sessions of the General Assembly, under a resolution introduced today by Representative Elizabeth Rainey.

Witness Recalls Tragic Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

(Copyright, 1923, by United News) WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Lincoin’s birthday finds national dignitaries voicing encomiums of the great emancipator and school boys reciting his Gettysburg speech, but it also finds an elderly gentleman, ffehle with age pitting by his fireplace recalling a shot, a squirt of flame, And a gasp of horror in Ford’s Theater one tragic April night nearly ixty years ago. Sunday, on the eve of the anniversary of the great martyred President’s birthday, Heury B. Polkinhorn, now 70. lived again those exciting minutes of his boyhood. On the morning of the day Lincoln

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEB. 12, 1923

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TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF INDIANAPOLIS: Learn llow to Play Ringer—the official marble game of the city tournament to be conducted by The Times, which will be followed by regional contests and a national tournament, sponsored by The Times and associated newspapers. Complete details of the local contest, givthe time, age limits of players, prizes to be dis

RULES OF THE GAME

All games shall be for fair—marbles to be returned to owners after each game. Players shall provide their own shooters and ducks for the games. Material or quality of marbles shall not be prescribed. Shooters shall not be less than five-eighths inch, nor mor- than seven-eighths inch in diameter. Ducks shall be not less than one-

YEAGER MERCATOR HOST Club Conducts Drive for 100 Members by April 1. Godfrey D. Yeager will act as host for the Mercator Club at the Sp.'nkArms Tuesday noon. A drive for 100 members by April 1 is being conducted. Merrit Harrison is booster for the meeting Tuesday.

was shot this little boy of 12 ran Into his home greatly excited. "Mama,’ he cried, "I want to go to the theater tonight. General Grant is going to be there.” But it was good Friday and his mother demurred. He carried his appeal to liis father, who printed the programs for the opera house and obtained a pass for a front seat, to see his hero, General Grant, and “Our American Cousin” in which Laura Keene and John Wilkes Booth were starring. Grant Grant did not come. Instead, the attention of the audience xv as diverted to a box Immediately

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fributed here, and arrangements for the trip of the winner of the regional champion to the national tournament —his or her expenses and those of the player’s mother or father, to be paid by The Times—will be announced later. Rules and official description of Ringer, as determined by a committee of playground and recreation* experts and representatives of the cooperating newspapers, are announced herewith. Clil) them and study. Then play Ringer and qualify for the championship.

half or more than three-fourths Inch in diameter. Players shall knuckle down on all shots. Hunching shall not be permitted on any shots, and where called by referee, the shot shall be played over. The referee’s decision shaJl govern in all cases of disagreement and shall be final.

CAT FRIGHTENS WOMAN Police Investigate Report of Prowler at Home. Mrs. Helen Eastman, 4535 Central Ave., reported to police that shell card a crashing noise downstairs. The emergency squad found the doors and windows intact and ascribed the noise to a large cat.

above the boy, in which sat President Lincoln and his party. The play went along. Then a man Jumped from the flag-draped box—confusion "I was wildly excited,” the elderly gentleman continued, with a faraway look creeping into his pale blue eyes. ”1 remember I got up with the rest of the surging crowd. Every one pushed toward the door; They had been ordered barred. No one could leave. But I was only a small boy, alone and crying from fright, and I was permitted to go. I “I remember that I |.an all the way home. My father wa* sitting up to

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Play will be by groups of six, who lag or pick for turns. Groups will lag for a line marked on the ground from a distance of ten feet for the order of their turns in each game. Player tossing taxv nearest the line gets first choice as to his turn, next get second choice, etc. The ring shall be ten feet in diameter, and each player shall lay In two ducks on a cross line scratched in the center of the ring, ducks to be placed three inches apart on each cross line. Starting the game, each player in turn knuckles down on the ring line and shoots—by lofUng if possible—to knock one or more of the ducks out of the ring, or to hit the shooter of a preceding player, If it happens to be In the ring. A player when shooting from outside of the ring must always knuckle down from ring line. Ducks knocked out of the ring are kept by the player knocking them out. Ducks knocked only part way (Continued on Page 2)

let me in. ‘Father,’ I said, “they shot Lincoln. He’s dying.’ But my father thought I must be wrong. While he was trying to apJm me and get a connected story of the tragedy, we heard newsboys shouting extras on the street, extras that told of the assassination.” He stopped and ran his hand over his heavy white hair and beard. “And then there was mourning, Henry.” prompted his wife, who sat opposite him, leaning forward listening again to the story she had often heard her husband fell to old friends. “Yes.” he answered sadly, “there was mourning. There was black everywhere and a hushed city.”

Temper of Inhabitants Roused by French Order Prohibiting Shipment of Food, Fuel and Steel to Fatherland —* Teutons Foster Widespread Strikes, SITUATION IN EUROPE AND NEAR EAST IS CRITICAL The killing of two French soldiers and a German civilian in a clash at Gelsenkirchen, West Phalia, was reported from Berlin today as the French completed plans to prevent export of Ruhc produets to Germany and to take over all railroads in the occupied areas. Simultaneously, Europe was electrified by a report that Mustapha Kemal, Turkish war lord, was at Smyrna, where allied warships, in the harbor, await militant action by the Turks. A battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s regiment has been ordered to the Near East.Announcement was made by France today that exports from the Ruhr to allied countries or even to unoccupied Germany upon payment of heavy duties, may be permitted. till Unit'd Press ESSEN, Feb. 12. —France and Belgium will deny Germany all products of the Ruhr from midnight tonight until the Cuno government agrees to pay heavy duties. Invaluable shipments of steel as well as food and fuel will be lost to Germany until the issue is settled. Temper of inhabitants of Hie occupied areas was aroused by announcement of these new restrictions. It was reported that secret organizations of Ruhr citizens, somewhat similar to those organized in Venice during French occupation are now meeting regularly.

German officials are doing everything in their power to foster strikes In the occupied zones. A report from Worms today said the French seized half a million marks there and 60.000.000 at Mayence to prevent the Germans from utilizing

Allies Ignore Second Turk Note and Warships ‘Stand By’ in Harbor at Smyrna

liy United Press CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 12.—The allies having refused to heed an ultimatum that foreign warships over 1,000 tons leave Smyrna harbor last week, the Turks have issued another warning, this time gi\-ing France and Britain three days in which to withdraw their war vessels. There is no indication th" second ultimatum will receive more consideration than the first. Eleven allied cruisers are standing by in Smyrna harbor, defying the Turks to take advantage of the “liberty of action,” to which they lay claim in their latest threat. WORKING MUST BE KEYNOTE German Finance Minister Says Economic Means must Settle Reparations. By CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Feb. 12. —“Working, not shooting, must be the keynote. The whole world has an interest in seeing that bayonets and tanks fire replaced as soon as possible by sensible, economic cooperation, worthy of civilized nations.” Finance Minister Hermes thus summarizes the situation in the Ruhr, to which he has just paid a flying visit.

“Ach!” Says Mrs. Ryan

Bp United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—“Ach!” All the wonder, amazement and dismay felt by Mrs. William B. Ryan, an A. E. F. bride, was summed up in this exclamation when she was informed that: In Xew York good eggs are 75 cents a dozen. Rents are SIOO a month. Tii>s to bellboys are about 7,000 marks. Mrs. Ryan is one of the German wives of American soldiers who arrived in America on the transport St. Mlhiel from Coblenz, where the doughboys have been rated as millionaires—in marks. With other “war brides," she went to the Hotel Rutledge, where she and the rest of the girls from the Rhineland are waiting to see what's going to happen to them. Most of the soldier husbands are figuring on quitting the army and finding work. Those that stick will have to support their wives on S3O a month, and these wives are used to fur coats and hothouse strawberries in the winter. “We don’t expect to have any trouble getting along,” Mrs. Rya said —before the price of eggs waslmentioned. " "We are good housekeepers. Seven

Forecast PROBABLY rain tonight and Tuesday. Rising temperature Tuesday.

TWO CENTS

ON Sunday, when many furnaces are shut down entirely or partially, the air clears, as shown in the photograph on the right. Why cant we have a skyline like this seven days a week ? Let’s get an ordinance with teeth in it. Make it an offense, with heavy penalty, to smoke up the city. Then bring such influence to bear upon the mayor and his smoke inspector that they will not dare to let an offender “get by.”

the money to pay strikers. A number of agents distributing strike funds were arrested. The French informed the mayor of Essen they will help themselves to coal here if this district falls to meet the needs of the troops.

“It is not my duty to speak authentically regarding the means to end the conflict,” the minister continued, “but it is obvious the present economic war damages not only Germany, but France as well, and as deeply. It harms the whole world. I am firmly convinced the reparations problem can only be solved by economic means.” LABOR OUTLINES POLICIES Briilsh Party Seeks Renunciation of Reparations and World Conference. By United Press LONDON. Feb. 12. —The labor party, "his majesty’s” opposition, outlined today the following policy it wilt atempt to enforce upon the new Parliament. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the party in the House of Commons, said there would be four main points: 1. Great Britain should renounce her reparations claims under conditions. 2. French troops should be required to withdraw from the Ruhr. 3. Anew world conference should be caled. 4. The “l>issian republic” should be recognized.

dollars a week should be enough for any small family to live on, even with the high prices that they tell about “But nearly a day’s pay for a dozen of eggs. A few little things for baby Mary—the price wouldn’t have mattered In Germany—would cost a week’s wages here.” But in a moment she smiled confidently. “My husband will know what to do.” CLOTHIERS TO MEET HERE Fred Yoiland of Topeka Scheduled for Convention Talk. Fred Voiland, Topeka, Kan., president of the National Retail Clothiers’ Association, will speak at the sixth annual convention of the Indiana Retail Clothiers' and Furnishers’ Association, Feb. 27-28 at the Claypool. Other speakers will be Sol Schloss and A. L. Block, An informal dance and buffet luncheon will be given Feb. 27. The Men’s Apparel Club will give a banquet the evening of Feb. 28. Arrangements are being mad* by Albert W. Levi of Indianapohsft&ad Dumont Peak of Crawfordsville.