Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 248

LLOm GEORGE SAYS EUROPE SHOWED EXTREME STUPIDUr TURNING DOWN 11. S. OFEER l Approach Made by Secretary of State Hughes May Be Final Move of This Country, ex-Pretnier Fears — Ruhr Invasion Called Failure,

‘Another Opportunity Lost’ Here is one of the high spots in David Lloyd George’s article: # * * * Another lost opportunity and Europe once more lumbered along its dreary way to seek another. It came with Mr. Hughes’ famous speech. It was clearly the result of prolonged consideration. For weeks there had been rumors of much consultation in Washington on the state of Europe, and we were encouraged to hope America meant business. The result was \l?*. Secretary Hughes’ offer. It was made four days before the Paris conference, and was obviously intended to be discussed by the allies there. An endeavor has been made to minimize the importance of this American approach to Europe. But it is incomprehensible to me how so momentous a pronouncement has been treated as if it were merely the casual utterance of a politician who had to find some topic of more or less interest with which to illuminate a discourse. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY LOST—PERHAPS THE GREATEST—PERHAPS THE LAST. NEVER HAS LUCK STRIVEN SO HARD TO SAVE STUPIDTY. BUT LUCK LOSES ITS TEMPER EASILY, AND THEN TT IS APT TO HIT HARD

By THE RIGHT HONORABLE DAVID LLOYD GEORGE (Former British Premier) Copyright, 1 by i'nttr-i EVaiu- Sviuii. iti Cupyrirht in Oiml Britain by London Chronicle Kx 1 Lisive World Kurht~ Held by United F'eature Syndicate KeprodueUon in Whole or m Pari Prohibited. LONDON. Feb. 24. —-Tilt* Frcueh government. having eonspieuously failed to \v;iu its anticipated roup, is doubling the stakes each time it loses. When wfl! it end and where will it end? ft is still gambling with human passions. They are all engaged in tins wild venture on both sides fifth* .table. *' greed, vani y. obstinacy, tern pin*. i-ombati veness, racial antagonism; but also patriotism, love of justice, hatred of wrong and high courage. Each side draws from the same treasury of fiery human emotions. I nless someone steps in to induce a halt I fear the result will he devastating. France has now abandoned all hope of being able to run the mines, railways and workshops of the Ruhr by military agencies. In these days yon ran not shoot every worker who fails to excavate so many hundredweights of coal per diem, or who refuses to fill a wagon or drive a locomotive when and by whomsoever he is told to do so. I*ranee can not provide the necessary complement of miners and railway men from outside to fill the vacancies created by sulkv workers. And even it she could it would take many months ere they become sufficiently accustomed to their new conditions to work wjthout peril to themselves. Nationa) Pride Fortifies Germans to Resist Decision to starve Them Into Submission 80 anew policy has been improviser!. It is nothing less than a siege ol Germany. Sixty millions ot Germans are to he starved into surrender. I hat * a long business, as every one knows who has been engaged on the difficult operations of strike breaking. We have often witnessed workers, with little support or sympathy from the rest of the community, hold out for weeks after their funds have been exhausted. In Germany all classes are united in resistance. The national pride fortifies endurance and incites to sacrifice, and the ports are (Turn to Page 3.)

WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT IN ACCIDENT Autos Collide at Coliege and Forty-Second, Mrs. Jennie B. Miller. 32. of SOS B. Thirty-Fourth St., was seriously cut <*n the throat ami side of the head today in an automobile accident at College Ave., and Forty-Second St. The automobile in which Mrs. Miller was riding with her husband. Donald L. Miller. 36, struck a car driven by Richard Gant, 17. son of I>r. Karl Gant. 1200 K. Forty-Sixth St., as Gant started to turn left to go into a fill ing station, polico said. Mrs. Miller was thrown through the windshield. She was taken to the city hospital. Police said Gant would he charged with assault and battery. THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is unsettled with probably rain this afternoon or tonight. Warmer tonight with temperature above freezing. Sunday fair. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. a. rn 23 8 a. tu 24 1 *• to. 22 t a. m 26

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Mule Drops at Operating Table Things went from bad to worse for Carl Hoffman, 1037 W. Thirtieth St. Pumper Company No. 7 from fire headquarters was answering an alarm from St. Clair a.ml Belt Railroad. At Massachusetts Ave. and Michigan St.. Hoffman walked in front of the truck. Lari Shea, i414 N. La Salle St., took Hoffman to the city hospital in his automobile. The police emergency •squad reached the hospital as the man was being placed on the operating table. As Hoffman's coat was being removed a bottle of white mule fell from a pocket and broke, police said. Physicians said Hoffman’s right leg was broken above the knee and his head severely bruised. P. S. —Hoffman is charged with operating a blind tiger. GLEE CLUB TO ENTERTAIN Rotari ails to Hear of Convention at Michigan City. The Rotary Glee Club, under the direction of Edward Nell, will feature the weekly Rotary meeting at the Claypool Tuesday noon. Ralph W. Abbett, secretary, is making a special appeal for attendance to catch enthusiasm brought back from tiie district convention at Michigan City.

EMBEZZLER GIVEN TIME TO PREPARE FOR PRISON TERM TANARUS, Dale Spahr, Former Teller, Out on Bond —To Serve Two Years, Released under $3,000 bond, T. Dale Spahr. confessed embezzler of $13,259 from the Continental National Bank, today was putting his affairs in order preparatory to beginning a two-year i sentence in Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. The bond was signed by his father, Charles E. Spahr, and an uncle, Ralph E. Root. Spahr, who surrendered late Wednesday at the district attorney’s office ; after an eight months' disappearance, ! said he would turn over property he had act-uired in Arizona to the surety company which made good his default. Spahr, who lived with his parents at 990 Middle Drive. Woodruff PI,, was receiving teller at the Continental National Bank. On June 10 he disappeared with $13,259.10 of the bank's funds. He obtained this money by withholding a customer’s deposit slip for check to the amount and replacing cash with the checks. l>eft on Vacation His disappearance attracted no attention as he supposedly had left on a vacation and the shortage was not discovered until July 1. Spahr wandered about the West, friends say, his route including California, Arizona and New Mexico. Ho conducted a tailor shop at Williams, Ariz. At one time, he told Homer ! Elliott, United States district attorney, ; he considered going into Mexico, hut j after looking at the country and its j inhabitants he decided he would i rather take his chances in the United j States. ! Finally, at Los Angeles, he met an : Indianapolis man. This brought I homesickness, and, conscience-strick- : en, he decided to return and "face the music,” It is said. Spahr was determined that he would surrender voluntarily and would not be taken into custody. His plans, he told friends, almost failed on the verylast lap of the trip. lias Narrow Escape He boarded a car at Terre Haute and in nearby seats saw a detective and g. merchant, both of wiin knew 'hfm. They did not glance his way and he arrived safely. Wednesday afternoon accompanied by his father, he went to the office of the district attorney, gave himself up. and was taken lief ore Judge Anderson

Business Today

Security markets opened steady Cotton opened higher. Chicago grain opened higher. Administration forces in Senate abandon ship subsidy hill. Texas Company followed gasoline advances. Federal reserve raiio advanced from 75.3 to 75.S per cent. New York Stock Exchange investigating put and call business done by its members. Interstate commerce commission holds unreasonable rates on wool from points in lowa to Boston. Week end mercantile reviews again point strongly to expanding business throughout the country. Dun's reports 336 failures in the United States this week, against 361 for the previous week. Pennsylvania Railroad stockholders increased 1.116 to 138,345 on Feb. 26 I-ioaded freight cars handled by Pennsylvania Railroad this year to date run about 25 per cent ahead of similar period last year. New York Stock evening Am Can . ns l . Am. In C'orp. 26 Am. Locomotive . .127’# Am. Steel Foundry SR Am. Surar Ref R-* Am. Tel. ft Tel 123 Am. Woolen. . . 105 Anaconda 51 % Baldwin Loco 138% Ti & O . 62*1 Bethlehem Steel 181 I{r> 1 „ California Pete ■ t r:i Chandler Motor 72% C Sc 0 74 Chi , Mil. & St. Paul pfd 43 % Chi.. Rock Inland Sc Pac 36% Chili Copper 211 % Condon Oil 58 % Continental Can 48 % Corn Products 137 % Crucible Steel ; 7% Cuban Am. Sugar. . 55Vi Cuban Cano Sugar pfd 58 Del A Lack .127 Krie J 2% General Asphalt 46 % General Motors 15% Gulf Stales Steel fit % Hudson Motor 2tl % Inspiration Copper 41 % Kelly-Springfleld Tire 54% Lima Loco 07% May Stores 75 Maryland Oil 40’a Midvale Steel 3ft New Haven 20 % Norfolk Sc Western 115% NortherA Pacific 80 North Am 118% Pan-Ant. Peto iAI 80 4 Fan-Am. Petroleum (B) 714 Penna Ry 41 >4 Pro. and Refiners 64% Pure Oil 30% Rea/litur , , 7ft % Rep. Iron and Steel 57 4 Repin*!** Steel 2ft % Sinclair 33% Southern Pacific ft 4 Southern Ry 37 % Standard Oil of Cal 60% Standard Oil of N. J 42% Studebaker 120% Texas Cos 51 Willys-Overlabd . 7% Wilson Sc Cos 11 New York Curb Opening Bid Ask. Durant 08 ... Gulf 66% 60% Indiana Pipe . . PR ftp Imperial Oil Canada 121 122% Mntpal Oil 16% 15% Rco 13% 13% Stilt* Ift 10% Standard Oil Indiana 67% 67% Standard Oil Kj 108 10ft Standard Oil Kansas 54% 54% Standard Oil N. V 48% 48% Vacuum j 63% 54% Wilcox ft% ft%

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1923

French Inspectors Arousing Ire of Neutrals t’IA'SE WATCH IS nKTN’O REPT P.V THE NEW FRENCH CUSTOM OFFICIALS i>N ALL RHINE TRAFFIC TO PREVENT SHIPMENT OF CONTRABAND INTO GERMANY. THIS PHOTO SHOWS A DUTCH CAPTAIN DISGUSTEDLY WATCHING FRENCH OFFICERS SEARCHING HIS KIVHR BOAT AT DUSSELDORF. THIS IS ONE OF THE PICTURES TAKEN BY 808 D'ULMAN \E\ CAMERA CORRESPONDENT. WHO HAS BEEN SENT INTO Till Hl' lIR To GET FIRSTHAND PICTURES OF THE FRENCH OCCUPATION AND CONDITIONS IN INVADED TERRITORY.

EARLY MORNING FIRE RAZES IRON FOUNDRY

Incendiarism Suspected in $125,000 Blaze at Chandlei & Taylor Plant - Spread of Flames Halted, Fire, believed to have heen of incendiary origin, destroyed the foundry, core room and pattern shop of the Chandler i!i. Taylor Boiler and Machine Company's plant. Addison St. and the Big Four railroad, early today. The loss, estimated from $12,4,000 to $140,000, is covered by insurance. The first alarm was turned in at 1 .10 a. m. A second followed

immediately. Anew record for the ntimbci of fires in one day was made during the twenty-four hours ending at x a. rn today. There were seventy-seven fires. The previous record made '•arbor this winter was sixty-seven, and the record before that time was made two years ago when sixty-three alarms were received In sev< uty-six fires the total loss was sll,lOO. fire men estimate. This does not include the loss at the Chandler & Taylor plant. The plant is located on twenty two acres south of the railroad tracks. The building destroyed was (lie second largest owned bj the company. It was 300 by 175 feet, of concrete, brick, stee land wood, and was erected about fifteen years ago. It is a complete loss. Suspects Incendiarism F. F. Chandler, sales manager of the company, said it would cost more than SIOO,OOO to reconstruct the building. He said information that had reached him caused him to believe the fire was incendiary. William M. Taylor, president, estimated the loss at more than SIOO,OOO. Chander and Taylor pointed out there were many castings in tiie build ing, which were destroyed or damaged when cold weather poured on the hot metal caused the mto crack. The pa tern shop was on the west side of the building. The only patterns in the shop were those in the course of construction, or being repaired. Thousands of other patterns were in storage in two large fireproof buildings north of the destroyed structure. Bla/.e Is Spectacular The blaze was spectacular. When No. 18 company, under Captain P. J. Riley, reached the scene, the entire building seemed to he a mass of tiames. Riley took the lead, dragging

in the hose at the north end of the building where tiames were hottest. As the pumper sent the water through the hose, he was thrown against a wall and knocked down, suffering a bruised hip. Riley refused to leave his post, and was one of the last to leave the fire this morning. ■A squad from No. ft. the Haughville lire company, had a narrow escape from l*eing overcome by flames and smoke. The men were lighting the fire from the south of the building, when the tiames hedged them in. They chopped their way to safety through a high steel wire fence. Whistle Shrieks Warning As soon as Robert Grant, night watchman at the plant, discovered the fire he sounded the whistle. A series of shrill blasts echoed in the west part of the city for twenty minutes. Thousands of citizens braved the cold and watched tiie firemen battle the flames. Three employes of the Company, Cy Mitchell, George Thomas and James Harris, live directly across Addison St. from the burned building. They were among the first to see the flames. All declared the fire seemed In originate in various sections of the building, and that it was a mass of Humes before the department arrived. Firemen did unusual work in preventing the spread of the flames to other parts of the plant and to frame houses in the neighborhood. The machine shop, the largest building owned hv the company, was located just east of the burned foundry. Fire Chief O’Brien took personal charge of the fight. The chief today declared: “1 am proud of the men. They certainly did wonderful work to save the machine shop and prevent a general neighborhood tire. My department was handicapped by, the fact that some person sent in seven false alarms

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after midnight in the northeast section of the city. This fact, coupled with the‘fact that we answered nine real alarms after nudnigth, took much apparatus. 1 certainly would like to catch tlie persons sending in these false alarms.” Men anil Boys Help Hast of the big machine shop was tiie big boiler shop. Had the machine shop caught tire, there would have iieeti little chance of saving the boiler shop. Firemen were assisted by citizens in preventing spread of the tire, a.s hundreds of men and boys kept careful watch and put out fire brands carried by high winds on houses of the vicinity. Some idea of the heat endured by tiie firemen in tighting the flames is hail when it is stated that the pumper of No. 18 was located so close to the burning building that it was necessary to turn the hose on the pumper to keep it from being destroyed by tire. Patrolmen E. E. Fisher and George H. Sylvest, who reported at a patrol box near the foundry at 1:30 a. m.. declared that they had seen no signs of lire at that time. Ten minutes later they were four blocks distant, and saw the blaze. Case Alderson. 238 S. Warnian Ave., night watchman said he had been near the building only a short time before the. fire was discovered, and there was no sign of fire. When he found tlie tire, and sent in the alarm at 1:40, the entire building was In tiames. Have Heavy Orders Officers of the company are: William M. Taylor, president: H. Guy Myers, vice president: Mary A. Taylor, secretary: Frederic M. Ayres, treasurer, and F. F. Chandler, sales manager. Chandler said that tiie tire coming at his time was unfortunate since heavy orders, just received, would have kept the plant busy for some time. In the building destroyed by flse, fifty men were employed. Heat 'twisted the groat steel girders and beams, and parts of the roof crashed to the ground. Officers said all machinery in the building is a total loss. Local Live Stock Hogs Receipts, ft,000; market, steady to 10c higher: bulk of sales, $8.15® 8.50. Cattle —Receipts, 100; market, steady; best steers. s6@'9. Calves —Receipts. 250: market, 50c, lower: veal top. $14.50. Sheep and Lamb—Receipts, 50: market, steady; lamb top, sl4.

: Employe of Lebanon Station ‘Covers’ Intruders —Town Police Take Up Chase and Arrest Indianapolis Men, Two bandit suspects were held at bay early today by Charles i llouser, night man at the Patterson garage at Lebanon, when he seized a pistol lying near the cash register, which he had been ordered to open, and “covered” the would-be robbers. Two other men made their escape in an automobile which had been parked about a block from the garage. Lebanon police, who saw the men running, tired twelve shots ! at them when they failed to halt.

The two prisoners gave their names as Herbert Teltelman, 24, of 114 W. Thirty-Second St., Indianapolis, and Thomas Kafoure, 23, of 1702 Ashland Ave. Ordered to Raise Hands. Three men entered the garage office and asked for two gallons of gasoline to take to their car, which they said was .stalled, according to Houser. As he turned to get a can he was ordered to “throw up his hands.” Dodging liehind a counter, Houser seized his pistol. As he did so, one alleged bandit, who was armed, ran out of the door. Houser blocked the way of the other two. Police saw the man run from the garage and join another who was standing outside. The two climbed in the machine, the engine of which was running, and made their escape in the midst of a bullet fusillade. Mjui’s Hat Found A man’s hat was found about two blocks from the scene. This led Lebanon police to believe they bad wounded one of the fugitives Teltelman and Kafoure refused to talk to Fred Dubbs, Lebanon chief of police, other than to give their names and to add they were en route from t’hlcago to Indianapolis. Indianapolis police were notified Lebanon is twenty-eight miles from this city. ONE CONVICTED; COMPANION FREED Man Found Guilty of Moving Stolen Car, A Federal Bonn jury today found Floyd L. Foster not guilty and Carl Robinson guilty of transporting a stolen automobile in interstate traffic. Both reside at Muncie. Foster and Robinson were indicted together. Robinson admitted he had ridden in the automobile from Chicago to Muncie and later hail purchased it. He denied knowing that it was stolen. Foster rode in the car from Muncie to Elwood. but insisted he did not know the car had been stolen. He is the son-in-law of Orville Harrold. noted tenor. KLAN POWER ATTEST IN TEXAS ELECTION Special Police Guard Polls in K 1 Paso Campaign. Hu I nilrd Press EL PASO. Texas. Feb. 24.—Special police guarded El Paso polls in an election which will determine the strength of the Ku-Klux Ivlan in the border district. The situation is the result of a bitter mayoralty fight. R. M. Dudley, president pro tern, of the Texas Senate. is leading an anti-Klan force as candidate for mayor. He is opposed by a slate admittedly favorable to the K. K. K., headed by P. E. Gardner. Harry Jordan To Speak Harry E. Jordan of the Indianapolis Wafer Company will speak before the Indianapolis Scientech Club in the Chamber of Commerce building Monday noon.

NICKY ARNSTEIN IS HELD IN $5,000,000 BOND PLOT

Hv l uiled Pres* NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Nicky Arnstein, convicted in Washington, D. C., as the “master mind" in a $5,000,000 (Kind plot, was held without bail and five other men arrested with him are at liberty under $2,500 bail each today, because, police declare, they could not account for bonds and securities found in their possession. The five men, who were taken by detectives at a Broadway hotel with a~ woman, who was later i ncased, were charged on the police blotter with grand larceny. Those arreted with Arnßtein;

Forecast UNSETTLED, with probably rain this afternoon or tonight. Warmer tonight with temperature about freezing.

TWO CENTS

M’CRAY BACKERS SEE OUT 10 SAVE FINANCE PROGRAM—Bitter Feeling in Republican Ranks Balks Leaders in ‘Rescue,’ Friends of the administration in the | House today were setting about to mend the broken structure of the administration’s financial program. The efforts followed a plea of Governor McCray that the Republican members. many of whom deserted him, ; save something from the wreckage. The first step was expected to be an aft-ort to amend the automobile ii cense biil again The bill was iimenil-,-rf Thursday to provide that new licenses he only slightly higher than at present and that half the proceeds be turned over to the counties. The Governor had depended on high licenses and all the proceeds to help finance the highway department. Feeling Bitter A caucus of Republican House mem- : tiers, open for the first time during the session to newspaper men-, re i vealed a bitterness of feeling and | strong opposition to the administra- ; tion program. Members of the House today were ; discussing with some uncertainty a ! statement made by the Governor in i the caucus that the members should not listen to the “folks back home” * because their constituents did not have ithe facts. “Information should flow from you to your constituents, not from your | constituents to you.” the Governor ! said. "Do things and then tell them what you have done.” Gas Tax in Doubt Members were willing to admit their opposition to the adminstration program was based largely on instructions from home. Whether the effort to pass the pro posed gasoline tax bill will be pushed appeared doubtful. Considerable attention was being turned to creating sentiment in favor of the Senate amendments to the appropriations bill, by which more than $2,000,000 was added. It. was reported after a meeting of the “dirt farmer" portion of the farm bloc that no definite stand would be taken on the gasoline tax. It is understood leaders could not bring about an agreement. DOCTOR MUST PAY $20,000 FOR KISS Osculation Purloined in Maternity Ward at Hospital. if// f Hi ted Press CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Dr. Justine L. Mitchell must pax $20,090 to Miss Mathilde Benkhardt, a nurse, for an unwelcome kiss, a jury here decided today. The kiss was •purloined in the maternity ward of the German Deaconess Hoppttal in 1921, Miss Benkhardt charged in asking $25,000 damages. She was discharged from the hospital following the affair.

Edward M. Fuller. 3ft, awaiting trial on bucketing charges following failure of the firm of E. M. Fuller & Company for $5,000,000. Albert Wilson. 40, Martinique Hotel. Cleveland, Ohio, a broker. Albert K. Cleveland, a broker, also known, police said, as Weber and Taylor Lewis. Samuel Milton Small. 22, New York, known as “the hoy broker.” Harry S. Sykes. 31, New York, said by police to have been a stock salesman for M. Stielitz & Company, which failed for more than SIOO,OOO, and whose head. Stielitz, killed himself while awaiting trial.