Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1923 — Page 1

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Here is the official weather forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity: Fair and continued cold tonight with lowest

DEATH, suffering and property destruction came today with, the most severe blizzard of the season. From Oregon to Maine and from the Canadian boundary to the Texas coast the storm raged. High winds lashed Pacific coast shipping. Four vessels were in distress.

FEU Ml eaens is HUH France Balked in Battle tor Fuel in Ruhr —Miners Leave Pits. By UNITED PRESS France was balked today in her battle for coal—in viiieh she threw 100,000 men ano ; billion francs into the Kuhr -when French miners approved a <reji- . eral strike to start tomorrow Fmorning and left pits. The strike and a .simultaneous walkout of Belgium miners was said to have no connection with the Ruhr situation, but Germany took heart at the occurrence. German leaders pointed out that France, during her month's occupation <>f the Ruhr, has secured about two per cent of what coal she would have received had she stayed away. M. Le Troquoi, minister of public works, began his appeal for British cooperation before Bonar Raw and Lords Curzon and Derby at Downing St. The French minister asked Britain to let fuel trains, troop manned, pass through Cologne The French government hopes to confine the coal strike to the Loire valley. The Ruhr was still on edge for an outbreak; a French officer was reported to have been beaten by a German crowd. The French press today expressed fear that Germany would interpret the coal strike as encouragement of resistence in the Ruhr. The Petit Parisienne appeals t. the patriotism of the workers not to give the Germans this much hope. ENGLAND CONSIDERS APPEAL < abinet Takes 1 p ({nesfion of \id lo French in Ruhr By f'nitrd prr** LONDON’, Feb. 15.—France s appeal to Great Britain to make the seizure of the Ruhr effective as far as coal seizure i3 concerned placed before the k British cabinet by Minister of Public "work I^Trrxiue. The. Frendh want to run trains loaded with coal that has been seized in the Ruhr pits through Rhine territory occupied by British troops. This applies paijicularly to the city of Cologne. The British have no objection to the trains passing through Cologne < rcept that they are manned by French troops and carry German hostages. This, it is felt, constitutes a breach >f Britain's sovereignty in the occupied zone. THIEF TO KEEP WARM Steals SSO Overcoat From Missouri St. Home. B-r-r-r! A SSO overcoat was stolen Wednesday night from the home of George .Tones. 1450 N. Missouri St. THE WEATHER The cold wave has reached the Atlantic coast and lower temperatures are reported from all eastern and southern sections. While there has been a turn to i somewhat warmer weather over the ■ Northwest, the readings are below zero in all districts between the westcm Lakes region and the Rocky mom- j tains. Temperatures in Indiana are about | 30 degrees below the seasonal average, j Rain or snow has fallen in the ex- , treme Northwest, rains in southern ! Texas and light snow flurries in some northeastern sections Elsewhere fair weather prevails. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 4 10 a. m 9 7 a. m... 4 11 a. m 10 8 a. m........ 4 12 (noon) ...... 13 *. m..—.... 6 lp. no ..... 14

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Blizzard Sweeping Land and Sea Causes Death, Suffering and Property Destruction

Br-r-r Hij I tit fed /’resjt WASHINGTON. Feb. 15 —The present cold wave will last thirtysix hours longer at least, with the probability of holding on much longer, the Weather Bureau stated today. OLD MAN WINTER HOLDS STATE IN HIS ICY CLUTCH Young Hoosierdom Hunts Out Skates While Dads Watch Coal Sag. Jloosier youngsters looked out upon frozen streams and ponds today and with whoops of joy dug out their skates. Their dads, looking upon the same sight, sighed and dug into diminishing coal idles. The entire State was in the grip of a real, old-fashioned cold wave. The lowest temperature recorded in Indianapolis was 4 degrees above zero between 6 and 8 a., tn. today. The low mark for the Stale—4 degrees below zero —was set in Lake County. Evansville, with 10 altove set the high mark. Although there will be little change in the temperature before Friday night, the hign winds of Wednesday will decrease, resulting in much pleas anter if not warmer weather. Meteor ologist Armington said. He predicted that by Friday night there will be in creasing cloudiness, with a slight tendency toward warmer weather. For the first time this winter. Fall Creek was frozen from bank to bank at many points Small streams and Pvtnds were frozen solid, and in White River the ice fringe steadily crept out toward the center of the stream. “As yet there ! as not been enough ■•old weather to effect a noticeable decrease in the nit nber of cases of respiratory diseases,” said Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian. "If the cold snap should continue for several days it is likely hat It'will help combating the infection.” FLORIDA ESCAPES COLD Georgia ami Other Southern Stales Shiver in Blasts. Fill I nitrd /*rr*t ATLANTA, Ga.. Feb. 15.—The cold est weather of the winter swept the East today. Ushered in by a thirty-mile wind, temperatures began to drop lato yes/terday and this morning were the lowest of the year, the weather Bureau announced. Florida was the only southeastern State to escape the wave. TWO NEW APARTMENT HOUSES FOR NORTH SIDE Ritz Company and H. K. Fatout to Build on Thirty-Eighth St. Construction of a $107,000 apartment house at 317 E. Thirty-Eighth St., was begun today by the Hits Realty Company. The building will contain sixteen four-and-five-room apartments. Brick and terracotta sire the materials. Herbert L. Moody is president of the company. A $75,000 twelve apartment house will be erected by H. K. Fatout at Pennsylvania and Thirty-Eighth Sts. The building is to he of brick, stone and tile. The apartments will contain five and six rooms. HURTY WITHDRAWS BILL Bows to Opposition on Second Health Measure. Dr. John N. H j rty today withdrew his second bill introduced in the House for the reorganisation of the State j board of health. The first bill was de- j seated. Opposition to the second ' measure, which differed little from the first, resulted in its withdrawal. Service Commission Safe The Clapp bill providing for the abolishment of the public service commission and re-establishment of the railroad commission was indefinitely postponed by the House today on recommendation of the committee on railroads.

Local Forecast: Not Quite So Cold Friday

Eight deaths resulted from the cold in the Northwest. Temperatures ranged from 10 to 25 below zero. Three persons died in Chicago. Thermometers there recorded 5 below zero. The storm which swept from the Northwest was carried to the Eastern coast on a gale which reached seventy-two miles an hour in New York City.

Where Firemen Fought Flames in Zero Weather

LEFT FIREMEN ( LIMBING TO FLAMES IN RAUCH CIGAR COMPANY CHANT. RIGHT—FIRE AS SEEN FROM TOMLINSON HALL.

BARTENDER GIVEN SIX-MONTH TERM Pete Lazoff Found Guilty on Blind Tiger Charge, Pete Lazoff, bartender in the “soft drink’ establishment of Christ Vishoft at 120 E. Ohio St., was found utility of operating-a blind tiger by Judge James A. Collins in Criminal Court today. Ho was fined $250 and costs and given six months on the Indiana State farm. Vishoft, indicted jointly with Lazoff. was found guilty of the same charge and fined SIOO and costs and given thirty days in jail. Lazoff was sentenced in city court, Feb. 2, to sixty days on Lho farm, which was later changed to a jail sentence when Judge Collins rebuked Judge Wilmoth for trying a prisoner awaiting trial on an indictment by the grand jury. “I told the sheriff to pay no attention to that commitment,” said Judge Collins, when the misunderstanding was further aired in Criminal Court today. “We didn’t, your honor,” said Frank Kempf, deputy sheriff, who brought Lazoff over from jail for the trial.

GENIUS’ REWARD IS SLEEP Woman I’oet Slumbers Throughout Cold Morning. Amy Lowell, pioneer in the field of free verse, is listed among the wellknown poets of the time. But this morning she acted just like an ordinary person and did what ordinary pe. sons want to do on a cold morning. She slept. Protected from intrusion by Mrs. Harold Russell, a friend, and two maids, she slumbered ir her suite at the Lincoln. She arrived at 1 a. m. Her maid gave the information that the poet would be up between 1 and 2 p. rn. Miss Lowell will address the Contemporary Club at the Propylaeum tonight. IN SATURDAY’S TIMES Lloyd George, former war premier of Great Britain, who is writing a series of special articles for this p;rper. will tell why a “cold shiver ran down the back of England.” Call Main 3500 to Order Paper Government Jobs Open Civil service examinations for ap plicants for a number of Government positions will be held March 7, Henry L. Trimpe, secretary of the civil service board, announced today. Matron in Indian service, assistant observer in meteorology for the weather bureau and iissistant examiner in the Patent Office are among the vacancies to be filled.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1923

temperature about 5 degrees above zero. Increasing cloudiness and not quite so cold Friday. The official ther-

HERO HURT IN VAIN EFFORT AT RESCUE Samuel Bain, 71, Killed by Freight Car as Conductor Is Knocked Down Trying to Aid Him,

lit an effort to save Samuel Bain, 71, of 200S \V. New York St., from death today. W. K. Christy. 45 N. Bevilie Ave., was knocked down by a freight car that killed Bain The accident occurred tit the Belmont Ave. crossing of the Bj fc Four Railroad at 7:45 a. m. Bain walked around the end of the closed gates, police were told, and started to walk across the many tracks. A switch engine, in charge of J. F. Nield, engineer, “kicked” two freight cars onto a switch just as Bain walked on the track. Bain, witnesses said, failed to hear the warning of Christy, cot.doctor of the switching crew.

MS PUIS SEAL ON TRAFFIC CODE New Rules to Be Effective Saturday, Feb, 24, The new traffic code will go into effect Saturday, Feb, 24. Mayor Shank signed it today. The mayor said he would ask the city council to amend the measure next week to eliminate prohibition of all turns at Meridian and Washington Sts. He favors retention of the right turn there. Preferential t raffic streets are established and other Important changes in the traffic system made by the ordinance, which passed city council last week.

“The United States — Blah ” Cries Isadora

Hu United Neicn PARIS, Feb. 15—“Mori Dieu!” cried Isadora Duncan, the classical dancer, whose movements did not appeal to the police of the United States, and particularly to Mayor J.< w Shank of Indianapolis during her last visit. "I'm glad to get away from America. The United States—blah! —It’s the most horrible country in the world,” she continued, shaking a mass of bobbed hair to emphasise© her words.

Traffic was demoralized in many Northern States. Trains were unable to buck the drifts and high winds. Wire companies reported losses which will reach thousands of dollars. A blanket of ice covered fields of winter wheat. If it is j not thawed soon there is a danger of i he crop being smothered.

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Christy attempted to seize Bain to pull him from the tracks, hut failed to reach him. The car struck Christy a glancing blow. His arm \yas bruised. Bain’s body was cut in two Bain came to Indiana,tolls twelve years ago from Frankfort. Ivy. He had been employed in the C. I. X- \V. Railroad yards. Surviving Him art' i the widow. Urama Bain; five sons, I Charles, George, Joseph, Kverott an I I Alva, all of Indianapolis, and five 1 daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Doherty, Mrs. Stella Younger and Mrs. Margaret Rusher, of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Lottie Katman and Mrs. Allle M< Kentucky.

SOFT WATER PROMISED WHEN CONSUMERS PAY Chemist and Doctor Discuss Methods and Development of Purification. Soft water eventually will he furnished Indianapolis, but not until con sumers aro willing to pay. It would add approximately twenty-five per cent to the cost of production, said H. E. Jordan of the Indianapolis Water Company, today. Charles P. Hoover, chemist in charge of water softening and purification, Columbus, Ohio, discussed water-softening at the sixteenth annual meeting of the Indiana Sanitary Water Supply Association, in the Claypool. Dr. W. F. King, secretary of the State board of health, reviewed the development of water purification. WOMAN WIELDS BIG STICK Founding on Door Frightens Prowler Away From Home. Mrs. A. E. Wrentmore, 227 S. Ritter Ave.. frightened a prowler off the rear porch of her home late Wednesday night by pounding on the door with a stick, she told police today.

“America is the most immoral nation in the world, but it’s afraid to face the facts. I told them the facts over thei-e and they attacked me like mad dogs.” The first act of Miss Duncan, after arriving in Paris from the native land she detests, was to sue a Paris newspaper for 100,000 francs, alleging that the publication libelleiji her when it stated that she still had a black With Miss Duncan was Serge

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mometer showed 4 above zero at 6a. m. today. It was 5 above at 9 a. m., and 13 above at noon.

MORGANHINTSAT FINAL RACE VOTE 'Quiet Day’ if Speedway Bill Does Not Come Up, Indications that the bill prohibiting commercialized t>. orts on Memorial day, including the Indianapolis Speedway race, might come u in the House for final action today were contained in a statement of Speaker Morgan. With a twinkle in his eye Morgan said: "it looks like ir would he a quiet clay unless the Memorial day bill should happen to come up." The bill passed second reading Monday. 62 to 32. It would go to the Governor for signature if the House passes it on third reading.

SUGAR RETAILERS RESIST INCREASE Effect of Wholesale Rise Not Felt in Homes, Tim advance Wednesday in the wholesale price of sugar may not affect the local housewife to anygreat extent, Indianapolis retail grocers said today. An advance of 1 cent a pound was reported by wholesale grocers today. The retailers say, however that large quantities of sugar are on hand, and that they will keep present prices as long as their supply lasts. The fluctuation started in the New York exchange on receipt of estimates of a short crop issued by a Cuban house.

Essenis, the youthful Russian poet, whom she married while living In Soviet Russia before she went back to visit the United States. The dancer, whose costumes and interpretations have barred her from some of the best music halls and theaters of America, issued a statement before she left the United States in which she denied published reports that Serge, the husband, had given her a black eye at a party in the Bronx-

Fires took a toll of heavy damage. Intense suffering was reported among the poor in large cities. Rescue homes in Chicago and other cities were crowded. Schools in many sections were closed. The only coal shortage reported was in New England States.

Rauch Cigar Company Factory on Wabash St, Suffers Total Loss of Stock—Water Freezes, Bursting Hose— Smoke Victims Return to Duty, Four firemen were injured today in a fire which destroyed the third floor of the Rauch Cigar Company building, 222 E. Wabash St., causing damage which Edward J. Rauch, president, estimated at $150,000. Stock of the cigar factory on all three floors and the basement was destroyed by flames, smoke or water, according to Rauch. Two hundred employes, about 160 of whom are girls, escaped from the burning factory withoui harm. INJURED FIREMEN HARVEY J. KEPPEL. Pumper Company 7, severe cuts on left wrist, also overcome by smoke. CARL ASHLEY, Salvage Corps, severely strained arm and leg. JOHN WILSON. Headquarters Company, overcome by smoke. JOHN CASEY. Salvage Corps, overcome by smoke. Casev and Wilson, revived by Deputy Coroner Doeppers, remained on duty. Ashley was sent to Salvage Corps headquarters and Keppel to the City hospital. Shortly after 10 a. m. employes on the third floor found themselves in front of ourushing smoke and flame coming from the west end of the building. Some of the many girls Mere forced to flee to tilt l street without wraps, which were left iu the building and were lost. Patrons of the city market across the alley were thrown into consternation, but police reserves soon had the news there was no danger spread and the street cleared. “SMOKE EATERS” GET INTO ACTION The tire apparatus soon was in action and salvage corpsoien covering what stock they could get to through the dense smoke. .Edward J. Rauch said he believed the tire started from a flue running along the west wall to the roof from a restaurant. The building has no inside fires, all of the electric wiring is metal encased, and the building steam heated.

The top floor, where most of the j girls worked, was the drying room, the second the rolling room. The first floor is used for storage of finished products and the basement for a sweating process. Flames were confined to the top floor. Keppel Lost in Smoke Ladders were swung out of Wabash \ St., to the third floor where heavy ; black clouds seen many blocks away caused persons in the downtown dis- | trict to fear Tomlinson Hall and the Market were on fire. It was in ] ibis smoke that Fireman Keppel j found himself lost and started to a | window. “While feeling my way I struck something that cut my arm,” j he said. Wilson was on a ladder at the win- ! dows of the third floor. Each time • a gust of dense smoke came he inI haled it. Finally he had to be car- [ ried down and led away. Ashley was leading Wilson and i started to get Casey when he slipped lon the icy ladder and fell to the street injuring his left leg and arm. j All of the injured were carried to the soft drink establishment of Lee Wickard. 230 E. Wabash St., who supplied them with hot coffee. Bursting and freezing hose lines made checking of the fire doubly hard and several times the flames threatened to break through the roof on the north side. Each time new lines were put to work and the blaze held on the third floor. Ice on Everything The winter blizzard whipped the water into sheets of flying spray which froze on the apparatus, the sides and roof of the building and all over the streets, greatly hampering firemen. Although Chief O’Brien was at home with influenza, when the alarm came in, he rushed downtown and worked on the slippery roof helping his men. Three alarms were sent in but the third district was sent back by Chief O'Brien when the flames were seen to be under control. Twelve pumpers, five trucks and two steamers were in charge of Chief O’Brien, Assistant - Chiefs Blackwell and Riedel and Battalion chiefs Campbell, McKinney and Kennedy of districts one, four and three respectively. Outlying districts were called to replace the downtown houses that were called out. Rauch stated that in fifteen minutes he would have been on his way to another plant of the company at Cambridge City, I ml. He and Miss Josephine Morganstern, bookkeeper, were in the office when the fire started. He said the smoke was ahead of the employes as they filed out of the building in an orderly manner by the regular exits. Before had time to get all of the valuables in the safe the smoke was on them and

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Miss Morganstem swung the big doors shut and ran out, Rauch said. For forty-five minutes the fire looked dangerous and with flames shooting out of the roof. Chief O’Brien kept all of the second-alarm companies on duty until two hours after the first alarm, when the fire was practically extinguished. It smoldered for some time thereafter, j Rauch said anew stock of tobaccos | will he rushed from warehouses over ! the country and the plant at Cambridge City will be put on double shift, in an effort to supply standing ! orders. A capacity stock, estimated at 600.000 finished, boxed cigars were on the first floor awaiting shipment. Hundreds of downtown office employes braved the cold winds to watch the flames and firemen work from windows. Police had fire lines on Market. Alabama, Ohio and Delaware Sts. I Excitement ran high when a ladder i with three or four firemen would catch [ lire and until it was extinguished ! yells and screams would be heard j coining from thousands who crowded i as close as they could get. STOVE BLAST VICTIM DIES The home of William Ritchey, 629 Lockerbie St., was desolate today as the result of an explosion of a coal i oil stove Feb. 5. Mrs. Ritchey died at the city hospital Wednesday frwri burns. She attempted to light the stove. It exploded, enveloping the entire lower floor in flames. When firemen arrived she was trying to get out of a second-floor window, IN SATURDAY’S TIMES IJoyd George, former war premier of Great Britain, who is writing a series of special articles for this paper, will tell why a “cold shiver ran down the back of England.” Call Main 3500 to Order Paper ADS MAY COME; ADS MAY GO, BUT MINE GOES ON FOREVER That’s the way Mr. Frank Riley of 1536 Madison Ave., feels about his furniture upholstering ad in the “Business Announcement” classification in The Times. “Getting splendid results from running my add continually,” is his opinion. You’ll say so to when you offer your sendees through INDIANAPOLIS TIME WANT ADS. Call Main 3500. Ask for ad taker- r