Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1923 — Page 1

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SENATE TIED IN TEST ON COUNTY UNIT Parliamentary Slip Results in Indication of Even Split on Bill. BRANCH VOTES IN FAVOR Presiding Officer Casts Deciding Ballot —Amendment Attacked, | Indications that sentiment in the Senate on the county unit education bill is exactly equally divided resulted after a two-hour discussion and action on the bill were discovered to have been out of order today. Under the impression that the bill was on second reading the measure was discussed and amendments offered. Later it was discovered the ection should have been on the adoption of a committee report and the entire affair was declared out of order. The measure would provide that counties instead of townships be units in educational administration. Branch Votes for Bill The vote taken and later nullified was 23 to 23 and Lieutenant Governor Branch cast the deciding vote for the oill. The vote was on a motion of indefinite postponement by Senator Murray 3. Barker of Boone County. The motion was followed by a prolonged delate in which it was argued farmers tnd others interested are not ready Tor the step. A committee amendment making tdoption of the system optional with counties, was bitterly attacked. The vote : To Postpone Republicans Barker. Bohmer. Cann, Bartzell. Lambert. Leonard t Democrats —Batt. Cravens Crosby, Davis. Durham. Easton. Ern: Harmon. Hays. Henley. King. Locbard. Lutz. Perkins. Saunders. Shirley, Sweeney—l 7. Against Postponement I Republicans—Adam** Baxtfp. Beardslov J 1 Fitch. Harlan. Hodffe*. Holmes. Lioiiley. M I ler. Moorhead. Nejd!. Si.-hols Richards. Southworth, Steeie, Swain. Vanorman. Branch—23. Democrat —Chambers.

SIGMON CONVICTION UPHELD BY COLLINS Higher Court Finds Coal Man Guilty. Charles M. Sigmon. partner in the Sigmon Coal Company, today w.is found guilty of violating the weights and measures law by Judges James A. Collins in Criminal Court and fined $lO and costs. He had appealed from city court, where he was fined $25 and costs. Motions for new trial and suppression of judgment were overruled. These nre steps in appealing to the Supreme Court. Sigmon was eharged with initialing a weight slip calling for 5.900 pounds of coal to be delivered to Public School 43, Fortieth St. and Capitol Ave., which city weights and measures in spectors said they {.fluid 1,100 |>ounds short. Collins, in passing sentence, said the of the school board with the iF.ompany was not in legal form. Collins said the agreement was m the form of a note on the back of the Sigmon bid, signed by tbe school husi ness director whereas the law provides all agreements for purchases involving more than S2OO must l*e in regular contracts signed by the school board and company. FRATERNITY WILL MEET Acacia Alumni and Active Members to Gather March 17. The second annual State meeting of active members of the Acacia Fraternity will he held at the Severin March 17. F. F. Knaehel, president of the Indianapolis Acacia Alumni Association. announced today. The next day the members will visit the Indiana Masonic Home at Franklin, Ind., where Acacia Day will be celebrated. THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is continued cold *r,night and Saturday. Lowest temperature aLtout 10 above zero. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 9 in a . m 10 7 a. m S 11 a. m 12 S a. m 8 12 (noon) 17 9 a. m S 1 p. m 18

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Thirty Die in Cold Wave Hu United, Press Thirty persons lost their lives in the cold \vave which swept the country during the week, according to reports compiled today. Temperatures began to rise in the Northwest, relieving some of the suffering from the storm and intense cold. Zero weather still gripped the East. Practically all lives imperiled by gales lashing shipping on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts were reported saved. The fate of the crew of the Tuscan Prince, aground near Estevan Point, was still in doubt. Thirteen deaths attributable to the cold were re ported in the Northwest, six in Chicago, eight in Seattle and eight spattering throughout the Central West. . Railroads were able to resume practically normalschedules throughout the Northwest today. Coal supplies were reported running short in inland towus.

COLO CMS® FIRES HERE WHO Sl,!® DAMAGE Heavy Firing of Furnaces Is Blamed for Blazes in Residences, Ninety (ires, with total damage csti mated at $161,667, have occurred in In dianapotis in the past fort.v-eight ] hours. Heavy firing of furnaces because of the cold weather started most of the I tires. Kxcepting ih Rauch Cigar Com l .my fire Thursday, most of the dam age was to roofs of homes from sparks ' and defective flues. Among the blazes: Residence of C. F. Haute, 6132 Pratt St., $300; home of Mrs. E. Byers, 424 Dorman St., $2,000: home of Anna Leineman, 422 Dorman St.. $150: residence r,f L. Makowitz. 1212 Cornel! Ave.. $600; Henry Strohn home, 2328 Ashland Avp.. SI,OOO. caused by thawing a water pipe; Della O. Kirk home, 2415 1 Station St., $300; double house, 2339- j 41 Pierson Ave., occupied by Airs. ] Lilly Kennedy, and Ralph Canter, $1,500, and a double at 25-27 W. Twenty-Fourth St., caused by flying sparks from the Pierson Ave. fire, S2OO. Defective wiring caused loss of $1,500 when the roof was burned off of the home of Harry L. Chambers, i 1515 N. Meridian St. ■I. H. Annington. meteorologist, predicts the cold wave will continue for several days. JANE WILSON IN HOSPITAL 10. V ear-Old Girl Hit By Truck Bestiiig Easily. lane Wilson, 10. of 2007 N. Talbott St., today was resting easily at the Methodist hospital, where she was taken Thursday afternoon • . ames Green, 934 N. Pennsylvania St., who • truck struck her and broke her leg. The driver reported the accident to the jiolice. It occured at Twentieth and Talbott Sts. He said the little

BOY IS INTRODUCED TO DAD IN COURT

Motherless since he was 2 years old, William J. Evans, 14. of 530 E. Vermont St., had to b" introduced to his father, Paul S Evans. Mobile, Ala., in Circuit Court. Attachment for his home here with Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Walsh was stronger than the father’s pleas that the boy come to Mobile to live with him and a stepmother. The father sought a writ of habeas corpus to take the son away. Judge Chamberlain learned the father had been in Mexico and the South for twelve years and denied the writ. The hoy went back to Cathedral High School, .where he is a freshman. Wiien Evans left Indianapobs he placed his 2-year-old motherless son with his grandmother in Verkesville, Ohio. The grandmother died, leaving the boy a 516.000 estate. An uncle, Janies Hopkins, was appointed guardian and sent William to live tr. In-

EX-SOLDIER ASKS AID TO GEE 001 OF ENGLISH IAIL Former Local Man Is Forced to Take Starving Family to Workhouse, APPEAL MADE TO SHANK Sen, Watson’s Help Sought to Bring Cripple Back to United States, Reading like a page from Dickens, conditions of an English workhouse were described in a letter received today by Mayor Shank from Owen McNally, who said he is an ex-resident of Indianapolis, a discharged American soldier, and at present in the Swansea (Wales) workhouse. McNally asserts he was wounded in the World War. The letter reads in part: “I am a crippled American stoldier who has been forced to seek refuge ■with my starving family :n an English workhouse. I am writing you as the head citizen of Indianapolis, hoping you will aid in getting me and | my family out of this horrible place and back to Indianapolis, where the j cleanest and most law-abiding people ! live. "I used to live on Washington St. My wife is English. "The shame, the degradation and i poverty of this place is awful. I have | appealed to the American Government I in vain for three years. "1 am not totally incapacitated. I received a pension of $4.50 a week. “The consul here has no funds to I aid me." William T. Bailey, city attorney, j who has charge of the mayor's ready j relief fund, wrote to Senator James i E. Watson for cooperation to bring McNally and his family back. Bailey I said the fund would furnish part of the money. PEAK IS PASSED IN WAVE OF FLO Six Deaths on Wednesday High Mark of Period, With only three deaths today and two Thursday from "flumonia" reported to the hoard of heajth, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, said today the peak of the wave cf respiratory diseases had been passed. Ninety-four deaths resulting from j flumonia have been reported In the last five weeks, with six deaths on ! Wednesday of this week as the high mark for the period. “Although the wave is now receding we cannot expect a recurrence at any time," Morgan said. “As the after effects of the disease seem to be especially severe this year prsons who have had the disease In any form should stay in until all signs of weakness have passed,” Morgan said. "The disease seems to have had the effect of hardening the heart muscles, which is responsible for the weakness.” TRAFFIC OFFICER INJURED George Thompson Thrown in At tempi to Stop Horse. When Traffic Policeman George Thompson tried to stop a runaway horse at Virginia Ave. and Alabama St. today he was thrown violently to the street and suffered a dislocated shoulder. He was taken to the city hospital. The horse belonged to Frank Rdesesl. 610 Prospect St.

dianapolis with Dr. and Mrs. Walsh, so he could go to school. Evans sorrowfully shook hands with his only child and left the courtroom with bowed head. He had wirtten the boy once a year, testimony showed.

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Icy blasts rattling the window panes of Superior Court meant nothing to judge and jury. Their minds were on strawberries. Attorneys argued and reviewed the history and habits of the succulent fruit. Edwin F. Shideler, local commission merchant, wanted the jury to award him $801.40 for damages to 441 crates of berries shipped to In-' dianapolis in May, 1921. The argument boiled down to: Claims by Shideler that there was

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEB. 1(3, 1923

BORAH WILL STUMP TO ‘OUTLAW WAR’

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THE FOUNTAIN ON THE FRONT LAWN AT THE RESIDENCE OF J M SHAW, THIRTEENTH ST. AND PARK AVE., WAS NOT TURNED OFF WHEN THE MERCURY TUMBLED. RESULT: A BIG FREEZE THAT CAUSES PASSERSBY TO LOOK AGAIN This Picture Came in Today 's Mail From California

MEET THE “DIP A-BAY" GIRLS OF SAN DIEGO. THEY'VE FORMED A ULITR DEDICATED TO TAKING V PLUNGE IN THE SURF EVERY DAY DURING THE WINTER. THEY'RE I.UVKV THEY DO NOT LIVE IN INDIANAPOLIS RIGHT NOW—THAT IS IF THEY WANTED TO "DIP" IN FALL CREEK. IT'S FROZEN OVER IN MANY PLACES.

COLLEGE PROPOSAL LOST Lake County Measure Postponed on Piinslion Motion. The bill providing for establishment of ;i “junior college” in Lake County was killed today following a motion h.v Representative Piinshou to postpone indefinitely. Representatives Ahlgreti, Day. Dove, Harris, Thiel and Hill were authors A few days ago Lake County IP-presentatives received stacks of telegrams protesting against the bill. HEMENWAY WILL FILED Estate of SSIHMKMI S.ef! |>y Ex-1 uiled States Senator. IIH liin i h i'll re in I BOONVILLE, Ind., Feb. Id.-More than $500,000 in real and personal property is disposed of in the will of Ex-lTnited States Senator James A. Hemenway which has been tiled for probate here. The residence is given to his widow, the summer home which comprises more than 300 acres of land, goes to his son George and daughter Jamie.

a crack in the car door, which let in the hot May air of Indiana and ruined the cargo. Charges by the L. & N. Railroad, defendant, that the damages resulted from the inherent delicacy of strawberries. Railroad attorneys said so much ice was in the car that if there was a creek in the door it was fortunate; otherwise the shipment might have frozen. After two days of arguments. Judge Hay instructed the jury that

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TRAFFIC COURT IS BUSY Judge Convicts Fifty-one Motorists on Various Charges. Trial of traffic cases by Special City .fudge Manifold at the weekly traffic session Thursday resulted in'fifty-one convictions, records showed today. Charges were as follows: Driving with one headlight. 31; no certificate of title. 1. nr, license pi;,to. 3; speeding,, 5; obstructing streets, 6; failure to stop after accident. parking in alleys, $1; parking in safety zone, 1.

FEDERAL DRAGNET SET FOR ELWOOD

The Federal prohibition dragnet will be spread in Elwood as the result of disclosures made in Federal Court today. That more than fifty “hard liquor soft drink saloons" have operated in

common carriers could not be held for damages to shipments "if they resulted from an act of God or the common enemy,” and if the jury found the catastrophe to the strawberries came from either, it should find for the defendant. Whereupon the bailiff aroused the jurors from contemplation of strawberry shortcake and marched them through the zero wind to a hasher.v next door. The jury found for the defend ant.

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HOUSE 'OUT OF. ORDER’ Chiropractor Bill l s p Again \ftcr Failure To Take Action. The Updike h>" providing for registration and licensing of chiropractors was to come before the House this afternoon. It was learned the House had failed, at the time of the committee report, either to approve passage or recommend indefinite postponement on a divided report. Speaker Morgan ruled consideration of the bill out of order until anota-ir commieee report had been received.

Elwood with jit tie or no interference from local authorities; that S. J. St., the “home of bootleggers, looked like a camp meeting ground on Sunday," and that the chief of police insulted preachers who complained to him of liquor law violations, were among things testified to by witnesses during the trial of four proprietors of soft drink saloons. The jury returned a. verdict of guilty without leaving the box. Judge Albert B. Anderson directed District Attorney Elliott to call the matter to the attention of the next Federal grand jury' and recommended that Bert C. Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana, look into the Elwood situation. Sentences: Thomas Reed. SIOO fine and eight months in jail; Marshall Laub. SIOO and eight months: Ralph Case, four months; Edward Kelly', SIOO an 1 six months, and Norm Benner, SIOO and six months. BeniHP" previously had nleaded guilty.

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Idaho Senator Declares His Economic Conference Plan Is Idealistic, but Practical —Foresees Scoffing of Statesmen and Diplomats, Hu United Presi WASHINGTON, Feb. Iti.—Senator Borah will take to the people of the United States, and perhaps to those of Europe, his plan for outlawing of war and tho settlement of international disputes upon a basis of'international court. Borah’s plan of settling war problems is by far the most ambitious and idealistic lie lias yet proposed . Its introduction in the Senate this week caused some of his colleagues to accuse Borah of becoming more of an international idealist than Woodrow Wilson. j" 1

Borah said his plan may sound idealistic, but that it is the only practical way to world peace. The Senator is considering a trip to Europe this summer. If he makes it he will place his proposal squarely before the peoples of t*he old world. “All the leagues for peace, and all the world’s efforts to prevent war,” said Borah, “have recognized the legitimacy of war. For that reason they have all failed. It is just as though we were to enact a law saying murder is legitimate, but it must be committed with only certain weapons with a precisely' defined kind and size. "The proposal I have made to outlaw war by making it a crime against nations is just as practically possible

British Deny French Plea for Aid in Ruhr and Conference Ends Abruptly

Hit l nitrd Press LONDON, Feb. 16.—The latest Franco British conference ended abruptly today, reportedly in disagreement, with the British refusing France permission to run troop-manned trains through the Cologne area. Optimism expressed earlier in the day that M. Letroquer, French minister of public works, would be successful in his mission, was dampened when the parley apparently collapsed. The entente survives the breakdown. however, it was authoritatively indicated. The French will return to Paris tonight. Premier Ronar Law. Marquis Curzon and Lord Derby met with Letroquer and General Payot at 10 Downing St today and the French renewed their request for permission to run

MYSTERY MARKS AVIATOR'S MURDER Prominent Los Angeles Man Found Shot Through Heart. Hu I nit fit /‘mm LOS ANGELES. Frh. 16—Earl Remington, prominent aviator and automobile racer, was found murdered in the rear of his home in a fashionable district here today. Two bullets, one through the heart and the other in the stomach, caused death. Jewelry and money found in Remington’s pockets indicated that rob Tory was not the motive. Remington apparently drove his car into the garage at the rear of his home shortly' after midnight. In the house at the time were his wife and two guests, whose names Lave not been learned. No shots were heard hv those in the house or neighbors. CEMETERY SALE FAVORED C. of C. Committee Indorses Traction Company as Purchaser. Support for Representative Wvsonp’s bill providing for the sale of ; Greenlavvn Cemetery to the Terre | Haute, Indianapolis <£- Eastern Traction Company was promised today by members of a special committee of the. hoard of directors of the Chamber of Commerce, following a meeting Thursday night. A. D. Hltz is chairman. The city is seeking the same site for use of the sanitary board. START EXEMPTION MOVE Work Completed Suggested as Basis in Leaving School. Another move to exempt children from school on the basis of work completed rather than age was made in the Senate today with the introduction of a bill by Senator Nichols to j permit children from 14 to 16 to be ! excused if they' have completed the j eighth grade and hold a certificate I showing they are regularly employed, j A bill authorizing the State auditor I to sell meander land along the Kankakee River in St. Joseph. La Porte and Starke Counties was introduced by Senator Steele. Eight bills introduced in the Senate today brought the total to 372.

Forecast FAIR and continued cold tonight and Saturday. Lowest temperature tonight 10 above zero.

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as was the abolition of duelling, or the ending of piracy. It took a long time to do both those things. Publio opinion finally accomplished it.” Statesmen and diplomats, Borah said, will scoff at his plan and find many flaws in It. But if he can get the ear of the people who have to die in war and pay for war he believes he will stir up a great public sentiment in favor of the idea. "We must abolish the idea of force as a means of peace,” he said. "Then would follow the codification, the writing down in order and with precision the vast sum of international law, so that it would be clear and defined. The third step would be establishment of a court to decide disputes under that new inter--r.ational court, code.”

I coal trains from the Ruhr with French guards, through the area held by the British on the Rhine. It was said the British regard this as an infringement on their sovereignty in the occupied area. IE AND SARAH’ MAKE FRIENDSHIP CALL ON SENATE

Shank Praises Legislators and Tells of Hope to Sit With Them. “Me and Sarah will need $lO a day to live on if I get to be a State Senator, and you'll have to increase the salaries." said Mayor Shank today before the Senate in expressing the hope that some day he might represent. Marioun County. “I’ve had all the executive positions T want, and I want lo be State Senator." said the mayor. Praising the Legislature for its efficient expenditure of money, and economy. Shank aroused laughs and applause from the Democratic Senators. “No. I didn’t come over here to make a speech or get some legislation, through,” said the mayor. "It’s just a friendly visit to got acquainted.” "How about being the next Governor?.” asked Senator Sweeney, Democrat. Shank remained silent and resumed his seat. JURY CHANGE IS WANTED House Resolution Asks Abolition Unanimous Verdict. The present requirement of the State constitution that jury verdicts be unanimous would be amended under a resolution introduced in the House today by Charles M. Trowbridge of Mays, which provides for a three fourths vote in civil actions and a five-sixths vote in trials for misdemeanors. Amendment of the constitution requires passage of a resolution through both Houses at two successive sessions.

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