Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1923 — Page 1

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INDA MYERS WINS BATTLE FOR LIBERTY Case of Woman Who Shot Husband Is Thrown Out of Court After Two Years—She Works to Keep Two Stepchildren in School, Working in her photograph shop to keep in school the children of the husband she shot. .Mrs. Inda Myers. 42, of 1 s(.)* N. Alabama tSt., today learned she was legally free of a charge of manslaughter. Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court sustained a motion of Prosecutor William I'. Evans lo nolle the ease. Thus ended a two-year fight by Mrs. Myers to save herself from prison. “I am very grateful," Mrs. Myers said quietly when she learned h n r case had hren thrown out of court. “1 shall take anew

lease on life ana shall continue my work. It has been a comfort.” The two stepchildren whom Mrs. Myers is supporting now in the photograph shop she ran with her husband during his life '.re Arthur. 14. and By rum, 16 remitted by Jury The shooting of Mrs. Myers' husband. Fro'i. occurred I tec. 4. 1926. Mrs. Myers, charged with first-degree murder, claimed s<lf def-T.s, . <>n Feb. 11. 1921. she was convicted by a jury in Criminal Court of mans! <ughter. On Feb. 11. she was sentenced to two to tnenty-onp years in the Indiana woman's prison. An appeal was taken to the State Supreme Court. In an opinion handed to Judge O Ilins recently, tincourt held evident was not suit, lent for conviction. This followed the ruling out of testimony of incriminating conversations policemen said they hell with witnesses while .Mrs. Myers was in the next room. It was held that such conversation was not in the presence of the defend, it and therefore could not go on :ii records. Shot Fired in Shop The shooting of Myers occurred in the photograph shop. The State charged Mrs. Myers shot in col l blood, while her husband was peeling an I apple. She declared her husoand had mistreated her. Mrs. Myers has been under fIO.OOO bond, signed by her father. Alonso SAider. After the shooting the prosecutor received petlnor.s signe,' by hundreds of people asking him not to press charges against Mrs. Myers. The jury which convicted her was out all night. Evans said the majority held out for first degree murder, later compromising on manslaughter. Laundry Man Too Late A thief heat the laundry man to a parcel of clothes valued at $25 left In the hall by U. R. Wicher, Apartment 2 at 618 X. Alabama St.

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TWO IN HOSPITAL FOLLOWING CRASH Statement of Traction Officials Contradicted, Clifford Frodriks, living near Stop 442 on the Newcastle division of the ; Union Traction Company, today do , dated officials of the traction company were wrong when they told reporters , no one was injured In an accident near Stop 4>. ear.y Tuesday morning. A freight car crushed into the rear of j. n interurban in the fug. b r>-dnks said his father. liiner Fro inks, and a neighbor, A. Stout. ; beth ar-‘ in Deroness Hospital He •'aid both suffered dislocated hips and internal injuries. Both had just imarded the intern, ian when the ; crash came, he said. SUBSIDY BILL BURIED •FORTY FATHOMS DEEP' Motion to Recommit Measure Inst :16 to -18. Hy t nilfd I‘mss WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The ship subsidy was burled “forty fathoms .wp ' today by tlie Senate, its friends and not its foes selecting the resting place. By a vote of 36 to 48 the motion of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to recommit the bill to the Senate Com--1 merce Committee was defeated. Debt Bill Signed Hu l nitrd pres* WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—President , Harding today signed the bill provid- ; ing for an acceptance of the British ! debt settlement.

CHIEF COMMENDS FIREMEN WHO WRECK SPEEDING TRUCK IN AVOIDING WOMAN

Driver Risks Own Life and Comrades —Lieutenant Is Hurt,

Faced with the alternative of injuring or killing a woman pedestrian or risking the lives of three comrades and himself. Chauffeur Erwin Fossatti of Fire Squad Company No. 1 chose the latter course today. Result: Woman safe. Truck wrecked. Lieutenant O. E. Ragsdale, riding on the seat with Fossatti. suffered sever, lacerations and bruises on his left side. He was thrown over the windshield, but went back to duty. Fireman Samuel E. Stuart and Capt. George Townsend, the latter of squad company No. 2. riding extra with No. 1 company, were on tl.e rear of the truck. The squad was on Its way to Pearl and Meridian Sts., where the automobile of Otto F. Talbert, 35 Bosart We. was on fire. Warnings Unheeded Speeding west in New York St.. I Fossatti started to turn southwest in Ito Massachusetts Ave. The woman. | without the slightest heed to the | shrill blasts from the traffic policeman’s whistle and the truck's bell and ! >iren, walked directly In the way. j Fossatti had not more than i tenth of a second in which to make his decision. Should it be to save the lives of foUl men or of one woman? The woman. he decided, and swerved to the 1, ft, barely missing j her. lieutenant Hurt The front left wheel of the truck | struck the front of E. Tenth St. car ■ No. 9T,9, In charge of Mutonnun Arthur Davis and Conductor Ray ! White. I Fossatti clung to the wheel with : out injury, but Lieutenant Ra.-sdale l was hurled across the windshield. <>ther men on the truck swung oiT without harm. The woman did not wait to thank the fireman who saved her life or to | give her name Meanwhile J. L Sweeney. 1508 Broadway, who was in the ear on fire at Meridian and Pearl Sts.. Jumped cut. ran Into a nearby building and got a fire extinguisher and had the ; blaze out by the time fire trucks arj rived. The car caught fire from a , short circuit O'Brien Praises Bravery After an investigation Ftr>- Chief O'Brien gat here ! the four firemen at headquarters and commended them. He particularly praised I-V sntti, telling him he did a brave deed in deciding to risk his own life rather than | injure n citizen. “That is the proper ethics of a fire j man,’’ said O'Brien. “I congratulate you and commend you highly. You | know you have to take chances as a j fireman and you lived up to what Is | expected of you.” ONE DEAD. SEVEN HURT IN $200,000 BLAZE Falling Wall of Philadelphia Building i Injures Firemen. Hu l nitr'l I'li an PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 28.—Cue tnan was burned to death and seven | firemen injured by a falling wall in a three alarm fire that destroyed the i Philadelphia Rifle (Tub building today. Albion S. Hchilgo. 44. a waiter, was trapped in the blazing building and bis charred bdv was found on the third floor The fire started In the | kitchen. I tarn age was estimaf* and at $200,000. UPHEAVALS ON STAR CAUSE BRILLIANCY Size Has Increased Iwo lo Three Times, Scientists Say. Hy I niti <i /’,'** WILLIAMS BAY. Wis.. Feb. 28. Terrific Internal upheavals in the star Beta Ceti have increased its size from two to three times, scientists at the Yerkes observatory of the University of Chicago declared today. All Instruments used In astral observation were trained on the phenomena. It is visible here by day- j light for only a short time in the late afternoon. Because of the move-: ment of the earth, its observation is! daily becoming more difficult.

THE WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vi I cinity is unsettled tonight. Thursday | fair. Not much change In temperature. Lowest tonight 30 to 35 degrees | above zero. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 31 10 a. in 36 7 a. m St 11 a. m 38 ! 8 a. m 3112 (noon) 3!) i 9 a. m 32 1 p. nt 40

HARDING AND NEW DO DAMON AND PYTHIAS ACT

By RAYMOND CLAPPER, United News Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. An example of the tenacity with which President Harding stands by bis old friends when they are under fire is afforded bv lie appointment of Senator llarrv X. New of Indiana as Postmaster General. It is a long story of a political Damon and Pythia- friendship that has survived Intrigue, gossip and pres-

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ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT—LIEUT. O. E. RAGSDALE. CHAUFFEUR ERWIN FOSSATTI. FIREMAN SAM UEL E. STEWART AND CAPT. GEORGE LOCKWOOD. BELOW—FRONT OF WRECKED FIRE TRUCK

French Severity Grows

S3 ARE WARNED TO ABATE SMOKE EVIL Hamilton Sends Sixty-Day Notices to Violators. .More than eighty notices to “clean up" have been sent to violators of the smoke ordinance, Francis F. Ham ilton, citj building commissioner, said today. With the exception of a few eases the firms notified are given sixty days to comply, Hamilton said. The notices were inostl> to heating plants and not power plants. Letters promising to comply are being ieeive.l every day, Hamilton said. Time has expired on only ono notice and fourteen more are due March 1. Indications are that these will “clean up’- without the necessity of their arrest. WELL-DRESSED WOMAN CHARGED WITH THEFTS Prisoner Gives Name as “Airs. Anna Sluss,” Wife of Attorney. A well-dressed woman giving her name as“. Mrs. Anna Hluss,” and her huslwind’s name as Kills K. Hluss, attorney, her ago as 43 and address as 3m I *2 I’ark Ave., was arrested to-' day. Detectives said she was found with small merchandise they say she stole from two downtown department stores. When arrested the defendant gave her name as Nora Sage, 45, Noblesvilla, but changed it when skated. Leona Beard, 23, of 573 W. Tenth | St., was nrrersted on a petit larceny j charge, police asserting she took a I pair of gloves. KIDNAPING IS FEARED Police Believe lleiroit Girl Has Been : Abducted. lly United Press DETROIT, Feb. 28.—A general alarm was sent out by police head- i quarters today In the search for I Eileen O’Conner. 7, who disappeared i late yesterday. Police believe she was j kidnaped. The girl was seen in a! candy store.

sure of all kinds. The appointment is significant purely because It rings down the curtain on a happily ermed little drama of politics which for weeks skirted the edge of an unhappy denouement. The President has shifted his Cabinet around in order to pay one of the choicest honors at his disposal to an old friend. Harding is under no political obligation h> New. The retiring Senator was unable to carry his own party primary last, summer when he sought renomination f the nate. He was not even available as a successor to Secretary of the Interior Fall, who retires next Sunday, that portfolio hav-

Ruhr Citizens and Invaders Wait New Franco-Ger-man War, By UN IT Ki' PRESS French severity in the new and old occupied areas increased today as the German government made chargee of organized terrorism. The Hennef Asbach railway and the villages of Uckerath and Asbach were taken: officials of PtiHseldorf, Trier. Bedburg, Klirang and other cities were expelled: the mayor of U ettcr was jailed for a year and subjected to a million-mark fine: the town of Rochu was subjected to a severe strafing. Sabotage Increased twenty-two per sons were reported killed in a train wreck near Ducrcn; telephone and cable lines were cut at Essen, I)ussberg and DusseldorfT. FRENCH PREPARED TO STAY laborers in Rhineland Wait for Roys lo Grow Up. Bj WEBB MILLER f Cnpt/riijh t, IPJ.t, by United Press DUSKELDoKF. Feb. 28 —The most startling feature of the Ruhr occu potion is the cairn complacence with which loth the French troops and the Inhabitants accept the idea that there will be another Franco-German war as soon as Germany is able to tight. That Is the ultimate answer one gets In answer to the question, “What is going to be the outcome of the occupation?” For the Immediate present a more pressing question is, “Will the French and Belgians ever get out, and on what conditions?" The correspondent has asked Prc mier Poincare, General Degoutte., Herman Meyer, a grimy German mine foreman and many persons in the invaded territory. Premier Poincare said: “Wo will refuse to evacuate until Germany proves she will execute the Versailles treaty and give us sufficient guarantees.” General Degoutte said: “If Germany does not pay us for a thousand years, we’ll be here for a thousand years.” Regardless of official opinions, the correspondent sought the view of workers. "Not until those boys have grown up and drive (hem out by war.”

ing usually gone to a western man. So, in order to take care of New," Harding decided to shift Dr. Hubert Work, who is from Colorado, to the Department of Interior thus leaving a Cabinet vacancy for which New could geographically qualify. The moment word of this plan was circulated, New's political enemies and those supporting other candidates sought lo nreak i( up Delegations called at the White House warning that New’s appointment would split, the Republican party in Indiana and force the State into the Democratic column in 1924 It was Insisted that the party owed nothirAr to New. Although Senator '"atson ot Indi-

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OFFICERS ARREST FOURjNBULL PEN Stock Salesmen and Buyer Field on Booze Charge: That a bull pen is a better place to keep bulls than to keep a bottle of “white mule” was the declaration of police unlay as they arrested An hie Wade 28. nf 1289 Kentucky Ave., on ia charge of operating a blind tiger. lie was found in a hull pen at the stock yards with a bottle of “mule" and a glass in his pocket, police said. With Wade were Jack Bell. Ben Davis. Ind.; Harry Hale, 37, of 2419 Rellefontaine St., stock salesmen, and D. Powers, 08, Arcadia, Ind., stock buyer, police said. All are slated on blind tiger charges and held under $2,000 bonds. BIGAMY CHARGE TURNED OVER TO GRAND JURY Two \lleged Husbands Arc Held Under Witness Bonds. The grand jury will investigate the life of bigamy that police charge Mrs. Goldie Ryan, 3.1, of 624 E. New York St., lived. Homer Ktterburn, 23. of 216 N. Last St., and Wesley Wilson, a soldier at Ft. Harrison, supposed husbands, are held to the grand jury under SIOO witness bonds. Judge l’ro Turn. Joe Beckett, in city court, after hearing evidence of Sergeant Coleman ttiat the woman, also known as Goldie Harper, has had other cases in Criminal Court recently, on the same charges, decided that this was a grand jury case.. LEGISLATION DISCUSSED The legislative committee of the In dianapolis Association of Credit Men will outline its activities at the weekly meeting of the association at the Clay pool Thursday. On the committee are F. L. Bridges, chairman; C. K. .Lewis, O. D. Haskett, L. It Patterson and William M. Hollas.

ana was scrupulously refraining from entering into the activity, the fact that he and New have. a political feud on was used by ©thers. Stories of past Indiana campaigns wore revived. New was placed In an embarrassing position oecause of his close personal friendship with the President. The White House latchkey has always hung out for New. He frequently dropped in for an informal evening, and was always welcomed Mrs. Now was on equally intimate terms with Mrs. Harding. But when his name began to be mentioned for the postoffice job, New refrained from visiting the White House, ©xcept when asked officially. He eve® refused to permit

'layor, Who Confers With Fisher in Florida, Suggests Saturday Before Memorial Day Be Declared Holiday by Business Interests,

C. of C. Considers Suggestion

“Mayor Shank's suggestion to The Times that the big auto race be held the Saturday before Memorial day is anew one and certainly worthy of consideration.” John R. Welch, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, said today.

Indianapolis may be able to keep the motor Speedway race despite adverse legislation, if business men and manufacturers will make the Saturday before Memorial day a holiday, Mayor Shank declared today in a telegram to The Times from Miami, Fla. The telegram was sent by the mayor after a conference with. Carl Fisher, principal owner of the Speedway. Shank did not say that Fisher lias agreed to hold the race on Saturday before Memorial day, but he intimated it could be

arranged. Memorial day this year comes on Wednesday and all arrangements have been made to hold the race on that day. The Speedway officials have insisted the race must he held on a hoiij day. The Legislature has before it a bill giving Mayor Shank he right to de- ; dare a Speedway day as a legal city holiday. This bill already has passed the Senate and probbly will be taken up by the House within a short time. Meanwhile, the bill prohibiting the Speedway race on Memorial day is awaiting the signature of Governor McCray. He has not indicated what ! he will do. Because of the jam of bills in the Senate enrolling room, tlie measure | has not yet been officially delivered jto the Governor. He will have three j days after it is delivered in xxfidch to 1 sign it. If he fails either to sign j or veto it, it becomes a law. The constitutionality of *he act Is being questioned. In th!. - connection it is expected the bill will be carefully examined by U. S. Lesh, attorney general, before it is passed on by the Governor.

Poor Fish! Hu I'nited frets MUNCIE, I rid., Feb. 28.—Ninety gallons of liquor, most of it pale moonshine, was poured into "White River today by Sheriff Hoffman and his deputies. It represented confiscations of the last six months.

DETECTIVES PROBE STABBING REPORT Mystery Shrouds Operation Upon Ralph Ormsby. Detectives today were investigating a report, received over the telephone from a person who refused to give i name, that Ralph Ormsby, 614 E. Twenty Fifth St., was stabbed early Tuesday evening at Tenth anil Fayette Sts., and taken to the Methodist Hospital. A r.urse at the hospital said a Ralph Ormsby. of 614 E. Twenty Fifth St., was brought in and operated upon by a Dr. Gabe Tucsda • right, according to detectives. The nurse refused to state whether the wound was serious, detectives said. Mrs. Ormsby told a Times reporter who called at the residence: “1 don’t think it is anybody's business how Mr. Ormsby got hurt.” Mrs. Ormsby said friends informed Iter Tuesday evening her husband was in the hospital. She said she did not believe he was seriously hurt. The wound was in his back, she said. She indicated he was taken to the hospital in an automobile. A colored woman living near Fayette and Tenth Sts., said she heard sounds indicating there was a fight there Tuesday evening. Explosion Takes One Life Ft/ United Press SOUTH CHARLESTON, XV. Va., Feb. 28.—Explosion of highly combustible chemicals in the West Yaeo Chlorine Products Company resulted in the death of one man today. Ernest Carpenter was instantly killed.

his friends to intercede in his behalf. His appointment was accepted xviihout question in the Senate, in accordance with the custom of approving at once any appointment from that body to an executive office. New is popular with both Democratic and Republican Senators. Dr. Work’s appointment likewise meets with approval, i He has made many friends during his i year as Postmaster General. He i works quietly anil without attracting j much attention. He dodges personal | publicity. | The President has now taken care jof two of the defeated Republican | members of the Senate. Poindexter of • Washington has been named elnbasIsador to Peru •

Forecast UNSETTLED tonight. Thursday fair. Not much change in temperature.

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“The Chamber supports the Speedway without qualification. Whether it will be willing to ask industry and business to close down on a day other'than a holiday. is a matter for the directors to discuss at their next meeting.”

DALE SPANS WED WHILE FUGITIVE, OFFICIALS HE M Confessed Embezzler’s Wife Unaware of Truth, Say Agents, It became known today that T. Dale Spahr, 990 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place, confessed embezzler of $13,259 from the Continental National Bank, was married under the name Hood while a fugitive from justice in the West last year, Federal officials saiu. He is said to have told officials he left his wife telling her he might be gone a little while and said he did not see how she would find out who he really was unless “newspapermen found out about the marriage.” He gave her $250 when he left, it is said. Spahr left Indianapolis with the money token from the bank, June 10 last year. He returned last week, surrendered to Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, was taken before Judge Albert Anderson Wednesday afternoon and was sentenced to two years in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. Spahr purchased property in the West and for a time operated a tailor shop at Williams, Ariz., it is said. In order that the surety company which made good his theft at the bank might be able to realize as much as possible on this property It is said that he wished the entire affair to be kept out of the newspapers. Oaklet Tripp Mt9slng Oaklet Tripp. 24. of 602 Woocllawn Ave., has been missing since 1 p. m. Tuesday, relatives told police.

Letters! Letters! Letters! letters overflowing with love, letters burning with passion, letters consuming with hatred, letters aflame with jealousy'. letters scorching with anger. Letters like these, intimate, personal, private letters, revealing the deepest human passions and emotions, tell the story of ‘The Tangle” The wonderful serial that will start in The Indianapolis Times next Monday. Every one will read it: every one will discuss it: every one will have opinions about it. Don’t miss the opening chapter. lla/p The Times delirercd. Call Circulation Department. Main 3500. |