Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 245

Mayor Flees From Smoke as Arrest of Violators Looms Hamilton Promises Action in Few Days Against Those Who Have Disregarded Sixty-Day Warnings to Install Consumers. While Mayor Shank sped south today, carrying out his threat to get away from the smoky atmosphere of Indianapolis, municipal action on “getting the smokers” loomed. First arrests of violators'of the smoke ordinance were promised by Francis F. Hamilton, city building commissioner, within the next few days. “At the beginning of our campaign we sent notices to four of the worst offenders, giving them sixty days in which to clean

BUDGET MEASURE RESTS IN SENATE WITH $17,653,101 Upper House Adds $2,000,000, Including Reformatory Appropriation. Carrying a total of $17,653,101.85, the general appropriation bill rested in the Senate today after a day and a half of consideration in committee of the whole. The total appropriations represent an addition of $2,176,764.08 to the measure as it left the House. The sum of $64,665.93 was added oday. Os this. $44,000 went to the conserva tion department as an additional appropriation for the next two years. Included In the additions was $600,000 for erecting the inormatory at Pendleton, passed 25-23. thus bringing the sum back to the *2,000.000 asked by Governor McCray. It was reduced to $1,500,000 by the House. Chambers Seeks Cut The reformatory appropriation was the subject of a long ’ bate. Senator Walter S. Chambers, Demot-iat, at tempted, unsuccessfully, to have the appropriation reduced to $750,000 Six Republicans, Lambert, Behmer, Cann, Hartzell. Barker and Bindley, voted with the Democrats. Senator Hays, Democrat, voted with the Republicans. and Senator King. Democrat, did not vote. Additions Tuesday afternoon: Insurance department, $5,000 for 1923 and $5,000 for 1924; adjutant general's department, $23,009: department of pubfic instruction, division of teacher training $l,lOO, division of school inspection $3,900: Indiana University, service plant for hospitals and school of medicine. $275,000: State Normal at Muncie, power plant $85,800, science hall $128,200, sewer $16,000: Purdue University, service plant, $275,000: School for Deaf. $1,000; State library, $5,000: library commission, $1,800: livestock sanitary board, $50,000: board of State charities. $8,000; Eastern Hospital for Insane. $37,500; Southern Hospital for Insane. $91,000: farm colony for feeble minded. $80,000; State sanitarium. $37,500; School for Feeble Minded Youth, $20,000: soldiers' home, $220,000; reformatory at Pendleton, $500,000; State farm. SB,OOO. Expect Fight in House Another opportunity to amend the bill will be given Senators when the measure comes up for second reading. After passage by the Senate the House will be asked to concurin the amendments. They are expected to meet much opposition there. FIND MAN’S BODY TIED TO RAILS Authorities Believe Victim Was From Chicago. By United Pres) i PLYMOUTH. Ind„ Feb. 21.—Beaten into unconsciousness, robbed and placed on the main track of the Pennsylvania Railroad near here to die under the wheels of an engine, the body 'of a man .. was found by authorities today. An eastbound train had passed over the body, severing one leg and otherwise mutilating it. Authorities say the amn apparently had been tied to the track in a dying condition in an effort to conceal a murderous assault and a robbery. It was learned that the man had withdrawn $l5O from a bank in Chicago a short time before. He could not have come here on a train between the time of his withdrawing the money and the time the body was discovered, it was said. This led authorities to follow the theory he had been slugged and robbed In Chicago and brought here in a fast automobile. THE WEATHER HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 24 10 a. m 32 7 a. m........ 2611 a. m........ 34 8 a. m.. ...... 27 12 (noon! ...... 36 9*- m 29 1 p. 39

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up." Hamilton said. “The sixty-day period ends in two or three days and so far only one of these firms has complied with the ordinance. It >s not likely that the other three can get rid of their smoke in the shot time left. If they have not they will be arrested.” The city smoke ordinance, incorporated in the building code, requires that offenders be given from one to sixty days’ notice. Since the first four notices were sent, about forty more have been sent to downtown violators. “Whenever the time that we give them is up they are going to be arrested from now on.” Hamilton said. “With only one smoke inspector in the department not many notices can be sent at one time. However, a few are being sent out every day and when their period of grace is over they will be arrested and we are going to see what the judge will do with them." With each notice a copy of the smoke ordinance is being sent, Hamilton said. By a mistake the clause carrying the SIOO fine for violation was left out of the original copy and many did not know that the ordinance had teeth in it. A corrected copy has been printed and sent with each notice. Portuguese Prince Dead By t nited Press NEW YORK. Feb. 21. —Prince Miguel de Bmganza. pretender to the Portuguese throne, died early today. Double pneumonia resulting from influenza caused his death.

The Man Who Wrote ‘Alice’

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MAURICE THOMPSON Although he was well known as a writer on various subjects, James Maurice Thompson is best remembered as the author of “Alice of Old Vincennes.” This novel, published in 1900, immediately became one of the most popular books of its day. James Maurice Thompson had an interesting career. He was born in Fairfield, Ind., Sept. 9, 1844, and died Feb. 15, 1901. When he was a child his parents moved to Georgia and he spent his boyhood and received his education in that State. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army. At the close of the war he returned to Indiana and engaged in the practice of law and civil engineering at Crawfordsvllle. From 1885 to 1889 he was State geologist. In 1890 he went to New Y’ork City and became a member of the editorial staff of the Inde-. pendent. Throughout his entire life the great outdoors was his first love and many of his writings dealt with this phase of life. lie was an expert with the bow and arrow and used these primitive weapons in hunting in preference to a gun. Alice of Old Vincennes Will Be Printed in The Times Starting T omorrow

Dollar Corn By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 21. —“Com will sell at $1 a bushel authority on agricultural economics predicts. WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE; BODY IS FOUND BY SPOUSE 111 Health Blamed for Act of Mrs. Clara Sanders — Gas Is Used. Lying under a blanket on the floor of the bathroom in their cottage at 615 Orange St., Mrs. Clara Sanders, 4S, was found dead of asphyxiation at noon today by her husband, Ellis Sanders. She had been in ill health. Mrs. Sanders evidently had been dead several hours. Besides the husband, a married daughter survives. Sanders, opening the front door, smelled gas. He called to George Noerr, 1308 Leonard St., with whom he had driven home. They entered. Mrs. Zuila Gaumer, 619 Orange St., received no response to knocks at rear and front doors at 10 a. m. Sanders said his wife never had threatened suicide. Sanders for twenty-two years has been a department superintendent for Eli Lilly & Cos. CASPER JONES IS SENE TO PRISON IN MURDER TRIAL Changes Plea to Guilty on Charge of Shooting Keeper of Roadhouse. Casper Jones was sentenced to from two to twenty-one years in the State prison in Criminal Court today by Special Judge if. O. Chamberlain. A special venue of fifty men was | discharged when Jones changed his plea to guilty. I Jones was Indicted for the murder of Chris Zimmerman, roadhouse keeper, June 8, 1922. Eph Inman, attorney for Jones, and the prosecutor came to an agreement before the trial was started. Jones, according to police. shot I 1 Zimmerman in a rear room of the Oakleigh Club, his roadhouse, KenI tucky Ave„ and Eagle Creek, after j Warren Wills, a bartender, had had a tight with Jones. Two hours before the shooting, according to police. Jones, another man and two women had been at the roadhouse. They returned and accused Zimmerman of stealing a motorr.ieter. Jones was accused of pursuing Zimmerman into the back room after Wills attempted to stop him with a I shotgun. YOUTH HELD FOR ATTACK Charged With Beating Housekeeper, 42. On the complaint of Viola Davis, 42, Patrolmen Siinonds and Pollock today charged Edgar Kharp, 18, of 926 E. Georgia St., with assault and battery and vagrancy. He is alleged to have beaten her. She har been housekeeper at the Davis home for years find has been caring for Davis’ sick father. CITY BOARDS GET MONEY School City Awards Temporary Inan of $500,000. The school and sanitary boards today had money on hand with which to further building projects. The Indiana Trust Company was awarded a $500,000 school city temporary loan on a bid of 4.45 per cent interest, while the Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, won a $375,000 4V 2 per cent garbage plant bond issue for par, accrued interest and $12,300 premium. Jelke, llood & Cos., New York City, was awarded a SIIO,OOO 4% per cent school bond issue for par, accrued interest and $2,431 premium.

Harry Thaw, Once Debonair, White and Broken, Paroled to See Mother

By United Press Philadelphia, Feb. 21.—The great iron gates of the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane swung open today and a white-haired, stooped, sallow-faced man rode out in a closed automobile for a temporary vacation. It was Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White and former husband of Evelyn Nesbit, who had been granted liberty for ten days so that he may visit his aged mother, Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, in Pittsburgh. Few persons today would recognize the man.-pnce the idol of Broadway, who was committed to the asylum six years ago. iii 1917

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21,1923

‘AIR GAS’ SPREAD IN FIGHT ON SUBSIDY

Both Home and Barn Lot Figure in Farmers Show

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PURDUE EXPERT TALKS AT EXHIBIT School Children Invited to Attend Agricultural Show. Soil fertility and crop Improvement were considered this afternoon by visitors at the Fanners' Exposition in the Manufacturers’ building at the State fairground. Prof. A. T. Wianco, chief of soils and crops department. Purdue University! spoke. School children will be admitted free Thursday. The Rotary Club, Mercator Club, 1 ndianapolis Brokers Association and other organizations have been invited. Although planned primarily for farmers, the exhibition interests urbanites. Exhibitions showing the development of a home and home beautifying are especially popular. The art of making homes attractive is set forth by the L. S. Ayres & Cos., which shows simple furniture and house furnishings adapted for the moderate-priced home. The State highway commission’s exhibition shows road-testing methods and materials used in constructing highways. A playground for children is provided. A large slide, teeter-totter and other apparatus have been set up In the exposition building. DR. HILL OUT ON BOND Trial on Illegal Surgery Charge Postponed to March 6. On SIO,OOO bond signed by Simon Unger, Sam Farb and Max Sacks, Dr. A. A. Hill was released today after trial in city court on charges of performing an illegal operation were postponed until March 6. A dying statement alleged to have teen made Tuesday by Wilhma Johnson, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Johnson. 2315 Brookside Ave., implicated Hill.

Thaw was as straight as an arrow, his hair was coal black and he walked with a springy step. Today his general appearance is vastly changed. Ilis shoulders are bent and he has aged rapidly. He looked nearer 70 years old than 52. Dressed fashionably, his appearance was neat. Thaw manifested 4 eagerness to leave the asylum. His only concern was for the care of his pets while he was away. He has raised pigeons and the birds fly toward him whenever he approaches, and sit on his held, shoulders and arms.

UPPER—MRS. L. D. MURPHY (LEFT), OF L. S. AYRES & CO., SHOWING MRS. MARIE DOUGLASS (CENTER) AND MISS HELEN COLEMAN (RIGHT) HOW TO MAKE CARNATIONS FROM CREPE PAPER. LOWER—LARRY KURTZ, 5, OF 4465 CENTRAL AYE., FOUND AMUSEMENT THUS. Wife Sticks to Teller Who Confessed Theft

Prisoner Tells of Broken Drea on Stock Ma His dreams of wealth shattered, a prison sentence staring him in the face, Edgar F. Gilmore, 25, Lynn. Mass., former hank teller, who was In the county Jail today, was upheld by the memory of a kiss and a promise of faith. “Good bye, Edgar, I’ll stick to you; you have been good to me.” The words of his wife. Esther Murphy Gilmore, 22, of Cincinnati, Ohio, lingered in the prisoner’s memory. Bhe spoke them late Tuesday as she kissed the prisoner goodby for the time being. The doors of the Jail swung shut behind her. Gilmore had confessed he stole $19,400 In Liberty Bonds fourteen months ago from the bank for which he worked in Lynn. Waits for Parents. Mrs. Gilmore, a pretty brunette, simply but stylishly dressed, today was waiting for her parents to cotne for her. It was there Gilmore married her under the name of Barker, she said. Gilmore was awaiting arrival of Massachusetts State authorities. He waived extradition. He was turned over to the local detective department by Federal authorities late Tuesday when it was learned he was wanted on a State warrant and had not been indicted by a Federal grand jury. Gilmore surrenderd to Federal authorities Monday night. He and his wife said they had not eaten for two days. "To Get Rich Quick” "I intended to play the stock market and get rich quick,” Gill .ore said. "All the money, except the amount I spent for seven automobiles, was lost on the market. I am ready to go back and face the music. 1 in-

‘Money Factory’ Raid Nabs Counterfeiters Federal Agents Round Up Gang in New York and New Jersey —sloo,ooo in Bills Taken,

By 1 nited Press NEW YORK. Feb. 21.—. Scores of Federal agenta today are rounding up counterfeiters in New York and New Jersey. Twenty-four persons have been arrested in Manhattan and Brooklyn. About 150 members of counterfeiting rings were marked for arrest. Raids are still in progress. When the agents broke into the “money factory” of the gang in Brooklyn during the night a rough

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11 of Riches Lost $19,400 ket in Year, tended to pay the money back to the bank when I became wealthy. Gilmore signed a statement he made to Detectives Karrasch and Glenn. He waived hearing in city court and a fugitive charge was continued until Saturday. DUBLIN IN PANIC AS BAITLE RAGES Free State Troops and Rebels Fight in Streets, lly United Press DUBLIN, Feb. 21.—Fighting between Free State troops and insurgents broke out suddenly in Dublin today and raged over a wide ar a. Two rebels were killed and three combatants wounded. Dublin is in a state of panic. Rebels appearing unexpectedly in the streets raided and set fire to the income tax office. Nassau St. was packed with thousands of civilians who rushed for shelter as Insurgents opened up with volleys from roof tops. Several noncombatants were shot down. Street cars stopped running. All traffic ceased in the streets where fighting started.

and tumble fight resulted. Shots were fired. Another "money factory” was raided in Long Island City. Counterfeit currency, totaling SIOO,000 in bills of $lO and S2O denomination was confiscated. The imitation bank notes were very crude and could easily be spotted as counterfeits. Counterfeit whisky labels, including Black and White, Johnny Walker, Haig and Haig, Old Crow, White Horse and other popular brands also were taken. WESTERN UNION BONUS Messengers Included in Shaiing of . Profit# Western Union messenger boys in Indianapolis and approximately 200 adult employes of the company were happier today as a result of a profitsharing bonus paid them. lEach adult received a sum nearly equal to half his Balary in July, 1922, while messenger boys got a fiat rate of $17.50. Earnings of $1,T75,000 were distributed to 35,000 of the 54.000 employes of the Western Union in the country. The bonus represented 50 per cent of the 1922 earnings in excess of sll,500,000. Candy Maker Bankrupt William Mitchell, proprietor of the Apollo Candy Kitchen of Terre Haute, filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy in Federal Court today. He scheduled liabilities of and assets of $6,395.

Father of Bill Declares Battle Will Go on Indefinitely— Democrats Use 1915 Speeches of Republicans to Talk Measure to Death,

Horseplay in U. S. Senate

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Today’s chief contributions to the Senate ship subsidy filibuster were to include: Senator McKellar, Tennessee: From six to eleven hours or more, reading Senator Smoot’s 1915 filibuster speech on the Wilson ship bill. Senator Stanley Kentucky: Two hours on prohibition and general topics. Senator Borah, Idaho: One hour on Russia. Senator Heflin, Alabama: Indefinitely on King Tut-Ankh-Amen

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—“A1l deals are off; the fight will go oil indefinitely.” With this announcement, Senator Jones of Washington today prepared as the Senate met at 11 o’clock, to continue the fight on tin* Democratic filibuster against the Administration’s ship subsidy bill. Neither President Harding nor any Administration leader in the Senate has the slightest intention of surrendering to the fili-

busterers or of withdrawing the bill, f Jones declared. It was revealed that Senator Smoot I of Utah had blocked an agreement I which was about to be consummated i with the filibustered under which the I Senate would have voted at noon to- i day on the motion to substitute the | filled milk bill for the subsidy, j Though Administration forces felt j they had the votes to beat the filled milk measure off, Smoot said he would | object to any agreement that conceded anything to the foes of the subsidy. Reed Resumes Speech Senator Reed of Missouri resumed the filibuster by continuing his long speech on the plan of buying the West Indies. Senators Moses and Smoot asked him to yield to them so they could put in reports. Senator Hitchcock, captain of the filibuster crew, said he would object to Reed yielding. They desired to tie the Senate up so tightly that it could not transact business of any kind. The Senate's performance last night from 9:15 to 10:15 was regarded I by the galleries one of the season’s j most enjoyable comedies. Playing Hide Out It’s title might have been "Hide out.” or “quorum, quorum, who’s got the quorum?” Senator Jim Reed. Democrat, had been speaking two hours on the advisability of the United States buying the French and British West Indias. Some of his colleagues thought he was tired. “Let me call a quorum. Jim,” suggested Senator Robinson, in a loud whisper. Reed assented. Curtis, watchful Republican whip, made a point of order that Reed couldn’t yield without losing his place. The Senate wrangled about it, but finally the roll was called and there was no quorum. Hide in Cloak Room The Democrats were lurking behind the cloak room doors. Senator Lodge spied John Sharo William peering out of the Democratic cloak room and like a school boy pointed out a truant to teacher, he “told on” Williams. But Williams stayed in “the dug out.” The next hour was a sequence of quorum calls, points of order, motions to adjourn, finally a demand by Senator Jones that the absent Senators be compelled to attend. In one office a group played poker. Jones’ dragnet brought in the dress suits and gave the galleries a big

Freckles Meets Ben Turpin!

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AND here we have Ben Turpin, noted film comedian. He is just one of the many movie stars whom Freckles and Tag, famous characters in Merrill Blosser’s comic strip, “Freckles and His Friends,” meet in the new series, Freckles in the Movies This filmland series starts in The Indianapolis Times tomorrow. Watch for the Freckles strip every day and you, too, will meet stars ot the screen. f

Forecast FAIR tonight and Thursday; colder Thursday. Lowest emperature tonight 20 to 25 degrees above zero.

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and his relation to the present Federal reserve system and the “wolves of Wall St.” Filibuster speeches already made included: Senator Sheppard, Texas, ten hours and forty minutes on the League of Nations. Senator Williams, Mississippi, forty-three minutes on “Republican shortcomings” and “lame ducks.” Senator Caraway, Arkansas, ten minutes on the dismissal of bureau of engraving employes. Senator Reed, Missouri, two hours on buying the West Indies.

laugh. Particularly Senator MeCucaber of North Dakota, who presented an astounding expanse of white shirtfront and white vest. Up to that time, Senator Har-y New lounging nonchalantly, had been the only Senator in evening clothes. But Dave Barry, ordered, by the Senate to bring in fugitives, went out and broke up a couple of dinner parties, bringing in Senators Frelinghuysen, McCumber and Nelson. Herd of Herfords “Here comes a herd of Herfords,' *’ said Senator Wadsworth, New York, ranchman and cattle expert, as the “black and whites” entered the chamber amid a burst of applause from the Democratic side. Senator Reed, resuming his speech a moment later, referred in pleasant vein to the “great improvement in dress shown in the Senate this evening. I see by the broad expanse of boiled shirts that the sergeant-at-arms has been forced to disturb Senators who were attending to their official duties at a party or parties.” Reed droned along quietly for for-ty-five minutes, and then Jones, with sleepy Republicans about him, decided to give up. He moved a recess until 11 o'clock today, just as Sergeant-at-Arms Barry was getting ready to issue Army blankets requisitioned earlier against an all-night session. TUT WILL NOT BE MOVED UNTIL FALL King’s Tomb Will Be Sealed Again by Workers. By United Press LtTXOR, Feb. 21.—Pharaoh Tut-Ankh-Amen is to sleep through another sultry summer beneath the brick red cliffs of the valley of kings. Visitors, royal, distinguished, noted, merely curious, the horde of tourists that has come to Luxor to be near the scene of the most famous excavation of a century, are departing. Others will come to take their places but the tomb of Tut Ankh-Amen will shortly be sealed and work excavation cease entirely until autumn.