Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 244

GOVERNMENT DUMPS USED WAR GOODS ON STATE

The Federal Government has continued to dump into the hands of the State highway commission thousands of dollars’ worth of used Army goods that by no stretch of the imagination could be used for highway purposes. The commission is continuing in the used goods business, chiefly with M. L. Goldberg & Son, to whom most of the goods is being sold without competitive bids. Here are examples of the things on which the department pays the freight from Army camps to Indianapolis and which it has sold to M. L. Goldberg & Son at the prices indicated:

ALLEGED BOND THIEF GIVES SELF UP HERE

Hunger Drives Man Accused of $19,400 Embezzlement to Federal Officers, For a year and a half Edgar F. Gilmore, 25. former teller at the State National Bank. Lynn, Mass., who is alleged to have stolen $19,400 worth of Liberty Bonds Dec. 31, 1921, eluded police and Federal authorities, but hunger got him in the end. Today Gilmore in the Marion County jail awaited removal proceedings to Lynn while Esther Gilmore, 22, his wife, waited in a local hotel for her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Murphy, to take her back to her home in Cincinnati. Together the couple came to the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice in the Federal building last night, and saying they had not eaten for two days, gave themselves up, according to Federal officers. Federal authorities said Gilmore admitted he had taken the Liberty bonds from the bank, but had returned $2.000 worth by mail w hen he discovered they were registered. He said, according to the Federal men, that he came West, finally making his headquarters in Cincinnati. He roamed around the country, but always went back to Cincinnati, the authorities asserted he said. In April, 1922, he married Esther Murphy, the Federal officers said, under the name of Parker. They were remarried under his right name in Indianapolis last October, the officers said he admitted. They came to Indianapolis yesterday, the authorities said. FRENCH WING ON MANNHEIM • Encircling Movement of Invaders Threatens Baden. By I nit rtf Prrss BERLIN, Feb. 20. —A big French troop movement is proceeding in the direction of Darmstadt and Mannheim, according to an official message from Mayence. Darmstadt is capital of the Ger- j man state of Essen, while Mannheim, Important industrial center, is in the northern part of Baden. An advance, such as described by the Mayence dispatch to Berlin, would l>e in the nature of an encircling movement that would add greatly to the territory occupied since invasion of the Ruhr six weeks ago. SIX DIE CRASHES INTO ENGINE Lehigh Valley Express lias Fatal Wreck Early Today. By United Press SAYRE. Fa., Feb. 20.—Six men ! were killed at Rummerfield, Pa., early today when Lehigh Valley express train No. 17, New York to Buffalo, crashed into the rear of a light engine. The dead: William Shamberger, engineer express, Easton. John Nodolin, fireman express, Easton. L. C. Culver, engineer light engine. Athens. George Casper, fireman light engine, Athens. O. W. McDaniels, trainman, Athens. Joseph Fox. traveling* fireman, Sayre. DETECTIVE MEASURE DEAD Author Withdraws Horse Thief Police Bill. Withdrawal of a House bill which would require county commissioners to give members of horse thief detective associations powers of constables and peace officers in general was made by Representative Earle M. Myers of Kingman, author of the bill, today. There are understood to be approximately 15.000 members of the association who would have been eligible to appointment as constables under provisions of the bill.

THE WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is fair and slightly colder tonight and Wednesday." Lowest temperature tonight about is above rezo. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. i a. m 27 10 a. m 29 7 a. m........ 26 11 a. m 29 S a. m 28 12 (noon) ...... 30 > a. m.. ..... 29

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Ambition of Senate Assistant Secretary Is to Read Journal

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They get little publicity, but the cierks in the Legislature are indispensible. Not a single session could be held without them, for they are the ones who keep the records straight, and in lawmaking that Is important. A law may stand or fall on the journal of one or the other of the Houses. Here are shown the girls who keep the journal straight in the Senate: Miss Fern Ale, assistant secretary, also has a lot of other duties, including handling the payroll. The mem-

UPLAND SCHOOL LEADER State Y. M. C. A. Conducts Contest in Bible Study Classes. Upland High School won the first round in the State Bible study contest promoted by the State Y. M. C. A., according to the reports mailed today from the State Y. M. C. A. office. The contest is for high school Bible class attendance. Upland won 300 points the first week, a perfect score. Daleville is second: Cromwell, third, and Shelburn, fourth. The contest is to run eight weeks. The State Y. M. C. A. will award silver loving cups to winners.

240 Years Back Into INDIANA HISTORY It was that long ago that the French had a trading post on the bank of the river which the Indians called the Quabache —-“the summer cloud.” The trading post was named Vincennes, after an officer of Louis the Fourteenth, whom the Indians had

burned at the stake. Vincennes was a trading post of the French when Philadelphia was but a year old, in 1683. Vincennes was two generations old when the first British officer, Lieutenant Fraser, passed down the Ohio river in 1766. It was nearly a century old when Bullitt and Floyd camped at the Falls of the Ohio and Louisville was yet unborn. Alice of Old Vincennes

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MAURICE j s the title of the thrilling historical novel THOMPSON which the famous Indiana writer, Maurice Thompson, wrote for the entertainment and information of all future generations of Indiana folk concerning this quaint French town and fort —the stragetic point for which French, British and Americans fought. This is the novel for which The Indianapolis Times has purchased publication rights as the third of the series of romances by Indiana writers. The first installment of “Alice of Old Vincennes” will be published In The Indianapolis Times Thursday, February 22 ORDER THE TIMES TODAY AND GET THE FIRST CHAPTER. MAIL YOUR ORDER OR PHONE MAIN 3500.

Fifty-six pliers at 60 cents a dozen, fifteen new axes at $4 a dozen, twenty-six used axes at $1.50 a dozen, thirty-nine hand axes at $1.50 a dozen, 3,375 pounds of axle grease at D/2 cents a pound, 18,400 blankets, reclaimed, at sl.lo'/o each, 60,521 Vi yards of duck at 21*4 cents a yard, 604 used socket wrenches at 35 cents a dozen, 1,082 saws at $6 a dozen, 5,000 saw handles at 36 cents a dozen, 1,008 fire shovels at 60 cents a dozen, 1,427 pounds of rope at cents a pound. According to John D. Williams, director of the commission, it is necessary for tlie State to take this material in order

i bers must have their salaries, amounting to $6 a day, at the end of every ; week. Miss Ale also has the job of reading the journal. That is, she would have if somebody didn’t move every day that the reading be dispensed with. One of her greatest ambitions is to be permitted to read that journal. j The real work of keeping the journal in order is done by Mrs. Edna Walling, chief journal clerk, and Miss Adine Macy, assistant journal clerk. Both are from Muncie, famous for its good looking legislative employes.

WIFE ACCUSED OF FIRE Detectives Charge Woman Burned Home of Estranged Spouse. Setting fire to the house in which her estranged husband lived Is the charge placed against Ruth Burton, 26, colored, 1123 N. Missouri St., by Detectives Sneed and Trabue today. She is alleged to have arrived at 363 W. Eleventh St., where her husband lived with his brother-in-law, just after the family left for church. She set fire to a pair of her husband’s overalls, then upset a can of coal oil, detectives said. The house was almost destroyed.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 20, 1923

SENATE VOTES 10 ADO $231,1 TO BUDGETMEASURE Second Effort to Establish State Constabulary Is Defeated. Efforts to Include a rider in the general appropriations bill which would have established a State rural police failed today when the Senate took up consideration of the bill as a committee of the whole. As the measure now stands, the automobile police would be abolished and no other body would be created to take its place. Senator Arthur R. Baxter, chairman of the finance committee, introduced an amendment providing that before any of the money of the automobile theft fund should be turned over to the general fund, a State rural police should be established and financed. The Senate Monday defeated a separate bill for a rural police. No Tut in Board During the morning session a total of $234,320 was added to the bill, all on recommendation of the finance committee. On every amendment except that for the rural police and one to reduce the membership of the industrial from five to three, also lost, the members voted along strict party lines. The following items were added this morning: Supreme Court, personal service. Increased from $39,900 to S4O 200; clerk of Supreme Court, personal service, from $12,440 to $13,000; Governor’s emergency and contingent fund, from $300,000 to $500,000. The House had (Continued on Page 2) HOUSE APPROVES CUT 10 ONE CENT IN GASOLINE TAX Committee Report Adopted After Enacting Clause Is Found. Reduction to a tax of 1 cent a gali ion on gasoline, replacing the 2-cent | tax originally provided in the Ahlgren : measure, was effected today when the ! House approved a majority report of I Judiciary A committee. The minority | report, signed by Representative Kenney, proposed indefinite postponement. Considerable debate took place at the committee meeting Monday night when members agreed the hill contained no enacting clause. When the report was presented this morning Representative Updike, chairman, said the enacting clause had been discovered. The House then acted. Besides reducing the tax. the hill provided for a redistribution of approximately $500,000 of the collected | funds proportionately among counties lof the State. Under the 2-cent plan, the main portion of the funds would have gone to the State highway commission. BUS MEASURE ATTACKED Petition Sent by 10,000 From Western Indiana. Approximately 10,000 western Indiana citizens have Indicated their opposition to a Senate bill, now be- ; fore the House, that would place motor bus lines under the supervision of the public service commission. Dr. J. L. Swadner of New Goshen and Frank Mosler, owner of the Terre Haute-Roekford bus line, brought the petition to Indianapolis. Bus inen say the bill is intended to eliminate commercial automobile transportation.

No, This Is Not a Story About the Speedway Fight

By lIERMES NEWS SERVICE. ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 20. 490 B. C. —The Demos is aroused, the populace is furious and throngs of the gentry stand about the Acropolis in speechless indignation at attempts of the Eupatridae to force to a vote the Euboean administration’s anti-M arathon measure. That the Peloponnesian representatives, now in control of the assembly, have aimed their spears directly at the annual speed classic is the foregone conclusion of citizens from the whitened slopea of

to obtain trucks and truck parts actually useful in highway construction. There is nothing in the laws governing the commission to permit the department to go into the used goods business. The laws say the department was created for the purpose of constructing and maintaining roads. Steel rails now compose the hulk of the used goods business engaged in by the department created for the purpose of building and maintaining roads. With few exceptions, these rails have gone to the Goldberg firm, which has reshipped

‘Friends’ NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Tillio Goldblatt, janitress, arested for failure to clear snow from her sidewalk, proved so poor that the policeman bought her a lunch while the judge fined her sl, paid it himself and gave her a bank note.

Sophomore Girl Writes Pageant for Dc Pauw Anniversary Celebration

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By Timm Special GREENCASTLE, Ind , Feb. 20. Miss Kathryn Thompson of Elkhart, a sophomore in Pauw University, is the author of the pageant to lie presented Thursday in observance of the eighty-fifth anniversary of Founders’ and Benefactors’ day. A $t,o00,<)00 endowment campaign will be launched. Miss Thompson won a pageant contest conducted during the first semester. Her pageant is divided

DOCTOR IS ARRESTED ON DEATHBED STORY

Acting on a statement alleged to have been made on her deathbed by Wilhrna Johnson, 19, daughter of Mrs. Charles N. Johnson, 2315 Brookside Ave., this morning. Coroner Robinson ordered the arrest under SIO,OOO bond of Dr. A. A. Hill. The girl charged Hill with an illegal operation, according to Claude M. Worley, special investigator for Prosecutor Evans, who said the girl died before she could sign the statement. Dr. Sidney Hatfield, called Monday on the ease, summoned the coroner this morning. Deputy Coroner Doeppers notified Evans. Hill had been attending the case up to Monday, Doeppers said. Criminal Court records show Hill w r as convicted in March, 1921, and sentenced to three to fourteen years In the Indiana State Prison for an illegal operation. He appealed to the Supreme Court, where the case is pending. Hill also is charged tvith practicing medicine without a license. The jury trial Is set for early in April in Criminal Court. His license was revoked by the State board of medical registration and examination after his conviction in 1921. After the coroner’s investigation the charges resulting from Miss John-

Mount Olympus to the pearly harbors of the lonian Isles. Present agitation against the Grecian sport, famed throughout the world, is immediately traceable to Draco, ancient codifier of the laws and blue-law advocate, opponents of the bill declare by their signatures to the “Papyrus,” now being published bv a powerful syndicate of soda fountain manufacturers. Among prominent citizens opposed to the prohibitory measure are Hippias and Hipparchus, the tyragUcldea. and rlarmodius and

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STREETS PATROLLED BY BANK ROBBERS

into seven episodes, depicting various stages in the history of the school. Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago, class of ’B9, will lie the chief speaker at a special chapel service Thursday morning. Informal receptions will be held In the afternoon. The pageant will be staged m the Bowman memorial gymnasium in the evening. Edward Rector of Chicago is in charge of the endowment campaign.

son’s death will be investigated by the grand jury. Hill now practices as a chiropractor at 323 Indiana Pythian Bldg. Detectives Houlihan and Worley arrested Dr. Hill this afternoon and took him to police headquarters for questioning. Coroner Robinson got out of bed, where he was confined with illness, to take personal charge of the Investigation. SCHOOL ‘Y’ CLUBS MEET i Bishop ijcetc to Speak at Dinner for Boys Tonight. The monthly interclub dinner of the ! three Hi-Y high school boys’ clubs will be held today at 6:20 p. m. at the Y. M. C. A. Bishop Frederick Leete of the Methodist Church will speak. The Butler College Quartette will sing. Lawrence Ritter, president of Manual Hi Y. Club, will be chairman. Resignation Accepted By United Peess WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The resignation of E. Mont Reiley, Governor of Porto Rico, has been accepted by President Harding, it was said at the White House today.

Aristogoton, leadsrf® of the Athenian Chamber of Congress. That the effects of the bill are far-reaching is indicated in a dispatch by boat, mailed last year, from Datis and Artaphernes, Persians, in which they condemn the anti-Marathon bill as discriminatory. The dispatch also stated the two were leaving on the next boat to attend the coming races, so confident were they that the bill would be defeated. Isoccles, a young and smiling Hibernian, was crowned winijer of the spring Marathon by Miltiades, a well-known mmaraL

them to a Chicago firm. The records show that the Goldberg firm is paying $20.50 a gross ton for them. The price is not uniform. One item shows the Lafayette Street Railway Company bought railV at $23 a gross ton. The highway department, during the past seven months, has sold more than $200,000 worth of merchandise. In no case, so far as can be learned, have bids been received formally. The law requires formal bids when the commission builds roads, in many cases costing much less than the sum received for used goods. When it sells merchandise in conducting a business it never was authorized to conduct, no bids are asked.

One Day’s Work of Bandits EASTON, ILL.—Bank robbed of $7,000. Shots fired at citizens. COLUMBI A, IND.—Postoffice safe blown; loot $5,800. CINCINNATI—Messenger of Pearl Market Bank kidnaped by four bandits and $8,500 loot taken. INDIANAPOLIS—Safe blasted at J. H. Cross & Son Coal Company’s office. No loot.

By United Press PEORIA, 111., Feb. 20.—Two auto- j mobile loads of bandits seized the town of Easton, Maso County, at 2:30 this morning, patrolled the streets, shot at citizens and caused general terror. The Farmers’ State Bank was broken into. The door of the safe was blown off with a charge of nitroglycerine so heavy that the door was shot through a brick wall into a restaurant next door.

Postoffice Yeggs Steal $5,800 at Columbus; Bloodhounds Called Out

An acetyline gas tank used by robbers who burned open the safe of the Columbus, Ind., postoffice early today and escaped with $5,500 in War Savings Stamps, revenue stamps and money, was stolen from the Miller & Rich garage. 1161 Kentucky Ave.. a few nights ago, local authorities learned. The number of the tank, which the robbers left, was identified by Carl Hull, chief clerk of the Line Air Products Company, 2919 Roosevelt Ave., manufacturers of the tank, as corresponding to that of a tank stolen from the garage.

Four Bandits Kidnap Bank Messenger and Escape With Loot Totaling $8,500 Rt/ , n \ f f r f st john. Jr., 16, messenger for the Pearl t IN I INNAJ I, Ohio, Feb. 20. Market Bank here today and escaped Four bandits kidnaped William Ober- | with loot estimated at 18,500. Yeggs Blast Safe and Cause S2OO Damage, But Get No Money at Coal Company Office

The office of the J. H. Cross & Son Coal Company, 1541 Blaine Ave.. was almost wrecked early today by what is believed to have been a charge of T N TANARUS, with which yeggmen blew the safe. They got no money, but about S2OO worth of property in the safe was blown to bits. All windows in the office were blown out and a chair, which stood near the safe door, was reduced to kindling. Included in property destroyed was anew $65 check writing machine and valuable books and records. There was no money In the safe. Contents were so shattered they looked as if mice had chewed them, Charles Cross, firm member, reported. Stamps worth $3 were destroyed. Henry York, driver, discovered the robbery when he opened the office at 6:15 a. m.

WIFE OF DETECTIVE KILLS SON AND SELF 111 Health Is Cause of Murder and Suicide. It]/ United Press MILWAUKEE. Feb. 20.—Mrs. [ Catherine Wolf, wife of a city detec- i tive, today shot and killed her 7-year- j old son Arthur and then killed her- j self in the basement of their home j here. 11l health Wits believed to have j been the cause of the murder and ; suicide. SIGHT TO ‘PIG EYE’ IS ASSURED, DOCTOR SAYS Boy Deviates Light Becomes Stronger ; Each Day. Ilu United Press PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 20.—Re- i turn of sight to the right eye of | Alfred Lemonwocia. to which was i grafted parts of the eye of a pig, is | now assured. Dr. Edward Morgan ! said today. The boy declared that light becomes j stronger every day, although as yet ! he cannot distinguish objects. ST. PATRICK’S DAY PLANS Hiberians Arrange for Folk Songs and Dances. St. Patrick’s day will be celebrated in Indianapolis with Irish folk songs and dances, and 4he stores have been requested to decorate windows with the Irish tri-color and the American ! flag, it was announced today by the j Ancient Order of Hibernians. program will be held at S:. Community House. Recitals sical numbers will be given by j

Forecast AIR tonight and Wednesday. Slightly colder tonight. Lowest temperature about 18 above zero.

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[ Seven thousand dollars in cash was | taken. Telephone wires Were cut and it was not until 6 o’clock this morning that the sheriff at Havana was notified. One citizen who ventured out was shot at three times. After the safe blowing the gang made merry about the bank tor thirty-five minutes before calling in their sentinels and going South in their automobiles.

The robbers are reported to have left Columbus early this morning in an automobile headed for Indianapolis. All roads leading to this city were watched. Reports from Columbus were that bloodhounds had been sent from Bedford. Employes of the postoffice were at work until 1 a. m. The safe was opened between that time and 6 a. m., when Joe Johnson, custodian, discovered the raid. Less than a year ago an unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the Columbus postoffice. which is forty miles from Indianapolis.

Homer Perkins. 1549 Blaine Ave., who was awake because of illness between 2 and 3 a. m. today, said he heard a loud noise, but thought It was railroad cars coming together on a nearby track. Company officials believed the safe was blown by amateurs, because four large holes were drilled around the combination, whereas professionals would have used one; the safe was r.oi covered and the explosive was so powerful that it blew the four-foot safe one foot away from a wall. A triangular piece of the steel door, which was demolished, was wedged in the heavy steel back wall. It is believed the robbers are tha same who ransacked the offices of the Harrah Coal Company, one block east of the Cross Company, Sunday night.

A Contest of Freckles

WESLEY BARRY, noted film star, and Freckles, of the famous comic strip, “Freckles and His Friends,” have a hard time deciding who really has the most freckles. This happens in Merrill Blosser’s new novelty— FRECKLES IN THE MOVIES in this new i- ’i' % t3 . > #k ',SWES FEB. 22.