Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 246

Shank Sells Sea Sites in South

CASTING an eye at the calendar City Controller Joseph L. IJogue could not tell a fib on George "Washington’s birthday. Mayor Shank didn’t go to Miami, Ha., to get away from Indianapolis smoke after all, it developed. "Don’t you know why he went?” prefaced Hogue. “He went down there at the invitation and expense of a real estate company to auction some lots in a new addition at Miami Beach.” It is to be a vacation for the mayor, anyway, his friends say. He likes nothing better than to get back into his old profession—auctioneering—now and then. After a week at Miami Lew and Mrs. Shank will go to Hot Springs, Ark., to be joined by Mr. and Mrs. Hogue for two weeks of real rest.

SUBSIDY BILL OILS SLOWLY M FILIBUSTER Volunteers Clamor for Chance to Talk Against Measure, t y I. niters Prenn WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. With volunteer filibusters clamoring for opportunity to make ipeehes, the Senate today entered upon a continuation of a battle of words which is slowly but certainly killing the administration’s ship subsidy bill. On the Republican side the demand was growing tha: Senator Jones admit the hopelessness of his efforts to bring the subsidy to a final vote. Following Senator Lenroot's public ultimatum that tbert would be no subsidy until farm credit- legislati .n was enacted. Senator Goo ling. Idaho, Republican, today aided the obstructionists making a speech urging action on his bill to appropriate several hundred millions of dollars to stabilize wheat prices. Mellon Assailed Lenroot, after assailing Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for opposing the farm credits legislation now pending in the House, announced that if it came to a test between the subsidy bill and farm bloc legislation he would vote with the farm bloc and against the Administration. The psychological effort of Len root s bold and open stand was immediate and while it may not bring about a decision ir the House on farm credit, it strengththened the determination of certain Republican Senators to insist that the subsidy bill, having had a long time to get through the Senate mu ;t now give way to other bills that are important locally or sectional !y. Sparkle Is Lost When the Senate resumed its session today the. filibuster against subsidy was going on in the same monotone that marked it yesterday. It has lost all its sparkle and snap, largely because the tight has been taken out of the Administration forces by their utter inability to hold a ouorum of the Senate or to transact any business without consent of the tilibusterers. Senator Jones called a halt at 9:10 last night to the great disappointment of a crowd that packed every gallery seat and stood by hundreds in the corridors. Spiritless attempt was made to put on a little drama for the assembled multitude, but the senatorial actors were tired, and the performance was humdrum. Hear Army Bill By unanimous consent, after a little preliminary wrangling that was mostly done for effect, the conference reports on the District of Columbia and Army appropriation bills wen; disposed of. To do this it was necessary' to displace ship subsidy. Jones then moved to take up the subsidy bill again. A test of strength may come on this motion today. Meanwhile Senator Heflin today expects to make his advertised speech of King Tut-Ankh Amen and his relation to the Federal reserve board and the “wolves of Wall Street." Borah to Visit Russia Bu T niteri rent* WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—Senator Borah of Idaho has provisionally accepted an invitation to visit Russia this spring as the guest of the soviet government.

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FILMUMD STARS UNITE IN ‘ARTISTIC COMBINE’ AGAINST COM IH MOVIES Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Lloyd, Griffith and Talmadge Sisters Sign ‘Declaration of Independence’ to Keep ‘Faith With Public,’ fly United Prerrn LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22. —Seven stars of filmdoin today signed a “declaration of independence’’ denouncing what they de2lared is the growth of commercialism in the movies. The declaration was made after a five-hour session at t lie Pick-ford-Fairbanks home and was signed by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and David Ward Griffith. In denouncing the ‘‘growth of commercialism,’ ’the stars de-

clared producers and exhibitions of “machine-made films” had dwarfed artistic expression. The stars announced an “artistic combine" to protect “the independent producer and independent exhibitor” and “enable us to keep faith with the public.” The pronouncement presages a mil-lion-dollar organization which will act to see that independent stars get adequate returns from their pictures- and that their pictures are not sidetracked merely because of a combine if theater owners or trust-owned theaters, it was declared. The pressure of ail the stars would be applied wherever the evil is found to exist. The new group will not be Ia producing organization, as several ' already' have contracts which run for j some time. Eventually they may’ pro- : duce together, they said. SHOOTING IN 1321 ECHOED 111 TRIAL Man Accused in Montpelier Robbery, Echoes of a midnight battle at Montpelier, Ind., Nov. 18. 1921, In which a bandit was killed and the town marshal badly’ woupded, were heard in Federal Court today. Harold A. ■’Pencils" Gounoud, of Toledo, Ohio, faced a jury', charged with complicity in an attempt to rob the Montpelter postoffice, which led to the battle. In the fight George McCabe, one of | the roldiers, was shot to death by \V. !B. "Jerry” Engle, town marshal. A 1 second bandit escaped. The Governi ment contended this man was Gounoud. Witnesses testified that a ! man answering Gounoud’s desorip--1 t.on was seen in Hartford City with McCabe a few hours before the shooting. WALTERS FOUND GUILTY OF FORGING WAR CHECK Marion Man Denies Guilt—.fudge to Pass Sentence Friday. Glenn Walters of Marion was found guilty of forging the name of a payee of a war risk insurance check by a jury' in Federal Court today. Judge Anderson will impose sentence Friday. Walters, who was an employe at the I Marion National Sanitarium in 1921 J was charged with forging the name of Albert W. Last of Fremont, Ohio, to i a war risk insurance check for $70.20 j Walters admitted h- had cashed, the check hut insisted it had been given j to him hy a man who represented him- 1 self as Last. CHANGE IN INAUGURATION DATE iS STEP NEARER House Committee Reports Favorably on Resolution. Hll United Pregs WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—A change j in the date of inaugurating new i Presidents and convening newly j elected Congresses was nearer to- j day when the House Committee favorably reported the Norris resolution. The resolution submits a constitutional amendment to the States, fixing the new date as the first Monday in January instead of March 4 for the inauguration and the first j Monday in December for the re- ; convening of Congress. WAY IS CLEARED FOR BRITISH DEBT BILL llou.se Passes Report and Bill (Joes to President. By United Preen WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The way was cleared for consummation of the British debt, today. The House adopted the conference ■ on the bill, amending the debt- j law.’ jo that the British settlement may be ratified. The bill now goes to President Hard- i mg for signature. GENERAL'S WIDOW DEAD . ! Mi-s. John A. Logan Succumbs to Pneumonia. Hu l titled Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—Mrs. I John A. Is.gan. 85. widow of Gen. j John .\ Logan o! Civil War fame, died here today from pneumonia. For thirty years Mrs. Logan edited ihe Home Magazine and during the past few years contributed extensive- I ly to magazines and other publica- j tiona.

CURB ON BUILDING OF RUUDS PASSED BY SENATE 32-12 Maximum Bond Issue for Highways Cut in Two by Measure, A blow at excessive taxation incurred in the construction of county and township roads was struck by the Senate today with passage of a bill limiting bond issues for road building • in townships to 2 per cent of the as- • sensed township valuation, and 1 per cent of county valuation for countyunit roads. Present limits are -1 per cent for township and 2 per cent In the county. The bill, a House measure in troduced by Representative Myers, passed the Senate, 32-12 after a fortyminute debate. It now awaits the Governor’s signature. Facing Bankruptcy “Sixty' per cent of the farmers will be bankrupt in two y-ours if we don’t '• relieve them of oppressive tnxf-s,": said Senator Durham, advocating j passage, “if you want really to help the people, vote for this holiday in j road building. At present not a I gravel road in the State is paid for.” ; “The only farmers who want this I bill passed are the ones who already ; have a good road running by their farm,” said Senator Nejdl in opposing i Lie measure. “The farmer who is still j ‘stuck In the mud’ Is opposed.” Recourse Provided Senator Holmes said the present law provides for recourse by appealing to ; the Senate tax board, and raid the tax j payers could stop issuing of bonds for I roads if they desired. Senators Cann, Penrod and Cravens said the farmers were demanding the road building holiday, and asserted that hundreds of letters were in th'-ir hands from farmers urging passage of the bill. Roll call showed a tendency of ! Senators from cities to oppose the 1 bill. For Passage U*‘T- 1 1i!-n: VL,m* I Behmer. Brown, Buchanan, ( aim. Cleveland, | Dunn. Fitch, Harlan. Hart/, U Hfidgos. Lam j hurt, Lindlcy, Merry, Miller, Moorhead. Pen I rod—l! Democrat®—Butt. Chamber*. Crn-cns, Davis, Durham, Krni. Hava, Heid'W, Kmtr, Lot-hard, Lutz, Shirlm*. Sweeney—lit. Against Ki’PUblFaiis —Daily. Kudu'll. Holmes. I.c<mrd, Nejdl, It'.eliarrM, Southwortb. Steele, Vmi Orman—lo. 1 *emocra t* — Ha ri.-i on, Perk ins—2. CHARGES FILED AGAINST SENATOR AND KU-KLUXI Texas Solon Faces Contest for Seat in Congress. Bn 1 nited Prtnn WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. —Charges that Earl B. Mayfield. Senator-elect from Texas, and the Ku-Klux Klan of that State entered into a ‘conspiracy’’ to violate the election laws of that State, in the senatorial campaign of 1922, were filed with the Senate today in a petition demanding that Mayfield be denied his seat. HOUSE SPEEDS ACTIVITIES Committee Reports on Bill Day After Introduction. Results of the House “speeding-up” policy were indicated today with a report of the Committee on the Affairs of Indianapolis, recommending for passage a bill introduced Wednesday by. Representative Traub. It provides for the city to convert unused school ■ property to the board of park commissioners for use as city playgrounds. The House approved the committee report. CLARKSBURG POLICE HERE Authorities Come After Four Wanted For Murder in East. Police authorities from Clarksburg, W. Va., wore here today to get Sebas tiano Muratnre. 41; Tonnelli Komundo, alias Tony Reynolds, 29: Mary Norman, 21. and Laura Agnes Edwards, alias Lucille White. The four are wanted in Clarksburg on murder charges, according to police. Police Chief Wolf of Clarksburg, the captain of detectives and a third officer came.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1923

Young Wife’s Hopes for Footlights Fade as ’Producer’ Lands in Jail

Setting for Last Scene in This Play Is City Court.

“The Ctrl From Forto Rico” or “The Show That Failed—to Show” (Synopsis as told by city detectives) ACT I Mrs. Doris Eileen Nickels. 22, of 2179 Dexter Ave., ambitious to go on stage, answers advertisements for chorus girls In “high class company." Special delivery letter instructs her to call at 1120 Central Ave. ACT II Mrs. Nickels, following instructions, | meets Thomas Millikin, 40, of the “Mil-ikin-Fernwalt Company of New York." She tells him she has had experience in the “Indianapolis Follies,” shown recently at the Palace theater. Millikin tells her that “instinct” shows him she is just right height and right weight. He gives her contract to sign at once. Contract calls for salary of $22.50, to be increased gradually to $125. Mrs. Nickels objects to signing contract until after talking it over with her husband. ACT 111 Monday night. Millikin visits Nickels home. He repeats offer. Husband agrees, providing Millikin produces references. ACT IV Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Nickels revisits MiHikin's office. After being shown a bank reference, supposedly from New i'ork, Mrs. Nickels gives Millikin check for $25 to cover cost of costume. Khe is told to be ready to leave for New York Saturday. AC T V On wa. home, Mrs. Nickels visits Herb Jennings, manager of the Pa! ace Theater. He fails to recognize name of “Millikin Femwalt Company.” So does a New York theatri cal man present. The three devise plan. Mrs. Nickels telephones MJI- - asking for a position and i says she has been referred to him by Mrs. Nickels, but describes herself as an altogether different type. He in vites her up and suggests he may be able to accept her sot sls guarantee, when she says she has only that much. Jennings tells Mrs. Nickels show probably is a'-fake. At I VI Wednesday morning. Mrs. Nickels’ husband endeavors to stop payment on check, but finds it already has been cashed, Millikin is arrested. \( T 1 II Thursday. Millikin iri jail, charged with grand larceny and vagrancy. Ad- j mlts Ctis said, no such company as : “MiHlkin-Fernwalt” exists. At T VIII To bo written at trial In city court, i THUGS GET $150; SUSPECTS HEED Two Arrested After Hold-up and Attack, While on his way home from the terminal station David Evans, 127 Blake St., was beaten and robbed of' $l5O at 11:30 p. rn. Wednesday. Two men were under arrest today as suspects. Evans had walked west from Black ford St. and the canal. He was seized from behind as he reached the railroad. He struggled with his assailant. Another robber appeared and struck Evans repeatedly In the face. He became unconscious. The men took Evans’ coat and overcoat besides the $l5O. The coats were found near the elevation. Sergeant Sheehan charged John and j William Ford. 743 W. New York St., I with vagrancy. Evans said he was j “almost sure" John Ford was the j man who seized him from behind, but i he did not connect the other man with j the attack. RAMOUS RACE RESORT MAY BE WIPED OUT Mexico Considers Establishment of Dry /one. HU I lilted I'li'KM WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—Fatuous international resorts of Tia Juana, j Mexfi alia and Juarez, will be prac- ! finally wiped out of existence if the j Mexican government creates a fiftymile wide “dry zone” along tfie en ! tire Mexican border. Federal Prohibition Commissioner | Haynes proposed the establishment of j the zone several weeks ago at a con- i fqrenoe in Juarez, Mexico, Opposite I El Paso. CLAIMS SHEIK’ IS COUSIN Kokomo Shoeshiner Says He Is Relative of Valentino. P n Times Special KOKOMO. Ind., Feb. 22.—0 h, girls! Antonio Valentino, shoe shiner de luxe, has let tha cat out of the bug—| He says he is a cousin of Rudolph, “The Sheik.” Antonio, a handsome Italian of 27 years, has concealed his identity here for nine months, but says that recent j correspondence from the “King of T-overs" tells him his father and Ru I dolph’s father are brothers. No ambition for the calcium glare haunts Antonio, however. What he wants is a shoe shilling parlor all his own, be says. Elkhart Grocer Bankrupt Donald F. Raeder, Elkhart grocer, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court today. He scheduled liabilities of $948.14 and assets of SSOJL

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FLAG FLIES AFTER CITIZENS PROTEST Police Sergeant Samuel Kantian today received special orders from (.'apt. John \Vhit*e to hoist an American flag outside police headtjuar* pin. Action resulted from a bombardment of telephone calls from citizens calling attention to the fact that today was Washington’s birthday and that no Hag was flying. Twenty-two calls were received.

Bonar Law Declares U. S. Has Failed to Aid Peace British Premier Pays Tribute t o Wilson and Regrets He Was Unable to Be at Peace Conference,

Hu t nilcd Press LONDON, Feb. 22.—1 tis not too much to hope that a union of the English-speaking peoples will soon come. Premier Bonar Law declared today In an address at a Washington’s birthday lunch' on. If America hud played her part in tho peace settlement as she did in the war. the condition of the world now would be much better than it is. he said. The premier was tho principal speaker at the celebration of the English Speaking t'nion. He paid tribute to the deeds of America in tho war, and also to Woodrow Wilson’s part In it. Ho regretted that it developed later that Wilson did not represent his people at the peace eonferenc and that his efforts were rejected. Bonar Law said tho withdrawal of the Fnited States from the peace settlement had an “incalculable effect," adding: “if America had played her part in the peace settlement as she did in the' war. the world would be in a much i better position today.”

A -S * <r* / —V 1 ITT* By Maurice Thompson Alice ot Old V lnccnncs THIRD NOVEL IN THE TIMES SERIES BY INDIANA WRITERS

ciiaptuii i UR TO Ihe diivs of Indiana’s early statehood, probably as late as 1823. there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, 1 lie decaying remnant of an old and

curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillon tree, Ic eerisier tie Monsieur Roussillon, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of eolor. The exact spot where this noble old seedling from la belle France flourished, declined, and died cannot he certainly pointed out; for in the rapid and happy growth of Vincennes many land-marks once notable, among them le eerisier de Monsieur Roussillon, have been destroyed and the spots where they stood, once familiar to every eye in old Vincennes, are now lost in the pleasant confusion of the new town.

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Tlie security of certain land lilies may liave been largely dependent upon the disappearance of old, fixed objects here and there.

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| He said he believed that the truth jof this fact was entering into the | minds of the American people, and I that he believed "it has entered into the minds of the American Government. and when opportunity offers that Government wilt no longer stand aloof from the ter Ties of the old world.” POLICE GUARD CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN NEW YORK Special Order Made Effective During lien ten Season. Bn I nited Preen NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—8 y special order effective today, a policeman will guard each Catholic church In the city during Lent and question any person of suspicious appearance. Officials would not reveal the causa of the order, but It Is believed to be due to the activities of fanatics in Canada, who have recently burned several Catholio churches.

me OF COUNTERFEUERS HUS 'COmittTß’ WITH AGENTS IN MSN CHS

Salesmen, Wholesalers and Retailers Pass Millions of ‘Queer’ —More Than 1,000 Arrests Are Expected,

Watch Your Bills, Is Warning

Passing of raised bills practically ■would be eliminated if bank tellers, hotel clerks, merchants and the general public would memorize the portraits on Federal reserve bank notes, Federal officials here said today. “Almost all raised currency in circulation is in the form of mesa notes,” a local Federal expert said. “So far no really successful method of changing portraits on bills has

By l Hired Preen NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—More than 1,000 persons, alleged to be connected with the international counterfeiting “corporation” exposed yesterday with the arrest of twenty-eight leaders, were sought by Federal agents throughout the country today. The “corporation” with “traveling salesmen, wholesalers and retailers” in every important American city, South America, the Bahamas and parts of Europe is responsible for manufacture of between $1,000,000 and $3,000,000 worth of spurious money and

millions of dollars worth of fake reve-1 nua stamps and liquor labels, accord-1 ing to Joe Paima and other Federal i agents. Children Give Clews Federal secret service operatives | revealed also today that the first clew { leading to exposure was obtained i from two children, 8 and 10 years j old, caught passing counterfeit S2O bills in a Detroit department store i last April. The children declared they had been j given the bills by their parents, Mr. j and Mrs. Angelo Rossi, who were later arrested, Palma said. The Rossis are now serving a Federal prison sentence. Sixty-four persons are already under arrest in all parts of the country in connection with the plot. Palma as- j sorted. The thirty-six taken in var- j ious localities were described as “smaller fry”—wholesalers, retailers and itinerant "shovers of the queer." Furnished Liquor Isabels In addition to being responsible for : practically all the counterfeit $5, $10! and S2O bills and $2.50 and $5 gold pieces passed in the l'nited States the last year, the "ring" also furnished the bootleg trade with a majority of its liquor labels used to turn homemade "hootch" into “smuggled liquor.” the Federals charge. Large amounts of the “fake" money made by the ring in the ‘'factories” j seized yesterday was passed in for-1 cign quarters of larger cities and j given to bootleggers and drug ped- ! dlers who, because of their own illicit 1 trade, could not reveal they had been duped. Many members of the bad money j “corporation” were also engaged in ' the liquor and narcotic traffic. It was : said. KING’S SPEECH BARELY PASSES PARLIAMENT Bonar Law Forces Greeted With j Ironic Cheers on Vote. Bp United Preen LONDON. Feb. 22. —Bonar Law’s I government just squeezed through the j final test vote of a week’s debate on : the King's speech. The count was 230 to 20S in favor I of the government. The result was I greeted with ironic cheers from the j opposite side of the House and labor j cries of "resign.” SALARY INCREASE KILLED House KiLis Measure Favoring County Commissioners. Tito Day bill, fixing, and in most j cases increasing, the salaries of coun- ! ty commissioners throughout the ' State, was killed today when the j House adopted a majority report of tho Fees and Salaries Committee for ' indefinite postponement.

Early records were loosely kept indeed, scarcely kept at all; many were estroved by designing land speculators, while those most carefully preserved often failed to give eten a shadowy trace of the actual boundaries of the estates held thereby so that the position of a house or free not infrequently settled an important question of property rights left open by a primitive deed. At all events the Koussi!lon cherry tree disappeared long ago, nobody living knows how, and with it also vanished, quite as mysteriously, all traces of the once important Roussillon estate. Not a record of the name even can be found, if is said, in church or county books. The old, twisted, gum-embossed cherry tree survived every other distinguishing feature of what was once the most picturesque and romantic place in Vincennes. Just north of it stood, in the early French days, a low. rambling cabin surrounded by rude verandas overgrown with grapevines. This was the Roussillon place, the most pretentious home in the Wabash country. Its owner was Gaspard Roussillon, a successful trailer with the Indians. He was rich, for the time ftjjd the place, influential to a degree, a man of (Continued on Fnge Eight)

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday. Colder tonight, lowest temperature 18 above zero.

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been discovered. There would be little bad money get by if the public only would brush up on the faces of great Americans with which all of us were familiar in our school days. These faces appear on Federal reserve bank notes as follows: One dollar, Washington; $2. Jefferson; $5, Lincoln; $lO, Jackson; S2O, Cleveland; SSO, Grant; SIOO, Franklin,”

ALEY LAUDS FAITH OF WASHINGTON IN ASSEMBLY SPEECH Joint Session Hears Eulogy by President of Butler, Washington’s loyalty to principle, faith in the common people and rev- ; erence for law and the Constitution ' could well be followed by .Americans of today. Robert J. A ley, president of | Butler University, said today in ad- ; dressing a joint session of the House and Senate in observance of Washington's birthday. “February has given to America her two greatest men, Washington and Lincoln," Aley said. “I like to think of these men as typifying America at her best. Washington believed that on this soil it was possible I to forge together men who came from j all parts of the old world and to form Irom their common unity a unique I nation. “Washington had faith in his fellow men and believed they understood something of free Government. He was a man of great faith in God, a faith that I verily believe every great man must have. We should not forget this Republic of ours was founded |by men who believed in God and ! who were not ashamed of their faith. “Washington had faith in the peo- ! pie. Lincoln and Washington believed the heart of America was sound. They believed it was wise to place their faith in the common people—just folks. I believe Washington and Lincoln were right, and we do wrong when we depart in any way from that faith.” Governor McCray introduced Dr. Aley. Representative Waldemar Eiekhoff of Ft. Wayne also spoke. HERE TO GET GILMORE Lynn Sleuths Arrive, to Return Bank Teller. Detectives Donahue and Flanigan of Lynn, Mass., arrived today to take Edgar F. Gilmore, 25, former bank teller, back to face charges of embezzling $19,400 in Liberty Bonds from a bank in Lynn fourteen months ago. Gilmore surrendered here Monday night, saying he and his wife had not eaten for two days.