Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1923 — Page 1

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Every Visit of the Mailman Adds to Complications in — Suppose, for instance, right after the date for your wedding to a beautiful heiress whom you loved devotedly had been set, you received a note like this from one little French girl—- " Mon chere Jacques: * * * A bundle of letters I have tied up very carefully in one of my bureau drawers. I wonder how you would like them for a wedding present? Very interesting reading they would make for vour wife, Jacques. . . . PAUL PERRIER." Well, John Alden Prescott received a letter like that; and it gives him a bad day, and a bad night, and then many more bad hours. You will be interested in every one of the thousand-odd complications in his romance as revealed in the intimat-e letters of everyone concerned. “The Tangle” Starts in the Times Next Monday

Brown s First Necktie in 35 Years Is ‘Jazzbo’ Pages in Legislature Make Present to Smiling Foe of . Cigarettes.

FOR the first time in thirty-five years—and he admits it—Representative Thomas B Brown of Mt. Vernon appeared on the floor of the House today, betogged in a necktie, “an honest-to-goodness, gosh-all-hemlock Jazzbo.” Mr. Brown, whose beaming and jovial countenance has seen skads of his anti-cigarette hills go to the legislative Junk-heap, has smiled broadly at every reverse, and literally kicked the proverbial bucket of mirth when the pages of the House saw fit to remember his joviality.

ST. LOUIS GETS LOIR CSS RATE Reduction to $1 Contrasted With Indianapolis Toll. Reduction of gas rates in St. Louis from 51.05 to 51 a 1.000 cubic feet for household con-sumers has aroused interest in Indianapolis. At present the Citizens Gas Company is allowed a rate of 51.20 und“r an injunction issued in Federal Court last year. The company’s petition for a rate of 51.25 is pending. The reduction in St. Louis was ordered by the Missouri commission after the LAclede Gas Company made a report showing its earnings for the final quarter of 1922 were the greatest of the year. CONSTABLE SENTENCED First Man Sent to Prison Under New State Liquor Law. The first man to be sentenced from city court under the new State law Which makes It mandatory to sentence a man found guilty of operating a Wind tiger to thirty days on Indiana State Farm, told the court he was a Constable. Val Alexander, 50, colored. 1225 A1 ▼ord St., arrested by Lieutenant Jones | and squad, after a raid on the home j of Willis Kirks, 26, colored. 110S E. | Thirteenth St., was the man. He , bad a half pint of "white mule” in j Ills pocket, officers said

THE WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity Is partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight about 85 degrees above zero. Warmer Friday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. a. m. 31 10 a. mil 35 7 a. m 8 a. m. 32 12 (noon) 38 > a. m. 83 1 p. m........ 42

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Brown is one of the speediest bricklayers in Posey County, so far as bricklaying goes down there, and swears tbeg pardon, he never swears) says he can lay more brick in a day than any one of his sons. One Representative this morning, after Brown had thanked the pages for the gift, saw considerable sense in the choice of the boys in buying a “Jazzbo” tie. “A four-in-hand,” he said, “might get in the mortar.” Another Representative wondered what Mr. Brown does with his whiskers while laying mortar.

562.000 IN CURRENCY GONE. MAN REPORTS Money Disappeared From Berth in Pullman Sleeper. j Bp t n’t• <1 PrrH* WASHINGTON, March 1. Luis : Firhlander, Washington real estate : dealer, today reported to police a packet of currency containing $62.'•'TO disappeared from under his pillow ' in a Pullman sleeper last night while he was en route from New York to | Washington. The packet contained fifty-seven 51,j 000 bills and ten 5500 bills, he said. SPRING, LOVELY SPRING She Comes, She Comes—Geese Fly Northward Over City. It was geese, not robins today. O. G. Parker. 719 Lord St., said he ! saw a flock of geese flying northward for the first time this year t’..is morning. There were about forty-five birds 1 in the flock.

Do You Know What to Do — On trains, at hotels, at dances, at dinners— so that your conduct always will be perfectly correct? Norma Talmadge Telle you. in a series of 24 authoritative articles on etiquet, entitled "Norma Talmadge s Manners,” which start today in THE TIMES Turn to Page 5

HOW TO DEFEAT SUGAR GOUGE

By JOHN CARSON WASHINGTON, March I.—By buying sugar now the housewife is playing right into the hands of sugar gamblers. The housewife lias to beat a half-billion-dollar sugar gouge by refusing to buy except where she has to have sugar and especially by refusing to buy sugar for future use. “There will be no sugar shortage and no trouble in getting sugar unless the consumer is frightened into making large purchases now and thereby an artificial but temporary shortage is created,” says the Department of Commerce. The sugar gamblers now are taking about SIOO,OOO each

(MM fill PASSES HOUSE 74-11 Measure Goes to McCray for Signature After Heated Debate. Indiana farmers may form cooperative marketing associations similar to those of California citrus growers and Kentucky tobacco growers under a bill p.issed by the House today. 74 11. Statements were made that the legislation will revolutionize farming. The bill was passed only after a heated fight lasting more than an hour. It was opposed on the ground it would form a trust which would woik to the disadvantage of farmers, dealers and consumers. Friends of the measure said it would mean higher prices for farmers without correspondingly higher prices to con umers, he cause it would allow farmers to hold their products and sell them as the market warranted. A feature of the measure which caused considerable opposition was the section providing a penalty for any one who should wilfully cause a former to break his contract to do business with a cooperative nssociation exclusively. Under the metis ure the organizations are exempted from the anti-mist laws. The hill already has passed the Senate and will go to Governor McCray for his signature. Tire vote: For Passage Republican#—Addington. Ahlgren Carter, Cline. Farley. Freeman, Hawes. Hamniitl Harris. Ilili, Hull. ILirty. Isenbarrer, John eon id Monroe. Johnson of Hamilton. Krrlsi hman. J.afuze. I slie. M Cul -hn Matthews, Mt'lr, Murd-a, Murray. Mv,t. Ogden, Phillip*. Sherwood. Shull. Trial,, Trent. Trowbridge, Waters, Wodekliyr—-M. IJemo< rats —Bender, i .eriy. lnitt. Clapp. Collins. Core. Custer, D .1" !' !■ I •' Flock. Gill. Gottachalk. Hall. Hobba Hoffman, Holman. Jarkaun, Johnson of Gibson. Jones. Kenney. Kit. n. >.:.rr tee- . l.ev roll. I.iTingston, I,owe. MeCl' C •■>. M-c 1 M No bin. Perkins. Peters .n. Post. Powell, Kir,ln, Rmro, Schwarts, Soott Sinter. Thomas, Thurston, Townsend—ll. Against Republicans—Brown. Duffry. Harrison, Pu '•■. it I eh. Smith, l'p|li;r W.-ung—K. Democrats—Schaefer. Schwinn. Stelhom —3. Not Voting Republicans—Davis. Jiav. Du Comb fin ham. Knapp. Lore. Morgan, Pittenger, Rainey, Knw bottom. Thiel 11 Democrat*—Carlos. Hart. Ortlteb. P n shon—4. DIVORCED WIFE OF MELLON TO MARRY Will Wed Art Dealer, According to License Issued. r-tl I nitrd Press NEW YORK. March I.—Harry Arthur Lee. 30, art and antique dealer of New York, has obtained a license to marry Mrs. Nora Mellon, 44, whom Secretary of the Treasury Mellon divorced in Pittsburgh about ten years ago, it became known today. The! place and date of the prospective wed- 1

GAMES SHIELDED, CHARGE OF EVANS Trial of Three Colored Politicians Alleged to Have Run Gambling Houses Is Opened,

Colored politicians operated gambling houses during the entire year, 1922, under protection of city officials, Prosecutor William P. Evans said his witnesses would prove, in making his opening statement to the jury today in the trial of Archie (Joker) Young, Harry (Gooste) Lee, and John Neely. The three are on trial in Criminal Court charges with operating a gambling house at 522 Indiana Ave. Neely was the "take-off man,” Evans said his evidence would show. "My evidence will show,” said Evans, "that ’Joker’ Young and William Lancaster, once a city employe, operated a big craps game above a soft drink parlor on the avenue. "It will show Young discharged Lancaster In the summer of 1922, after a little police interference, because he said ’Lancaster couldn’t furnish protection.’ “It will show a high city official went around in a red automobile last summer and told the boys: ‘Close up at 9. There will be a big raid as soon as we get back to police headquarters.’ ” The prosecuto * characterized the places rn by the colored politicians

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1923

Voice for Freedom of Ireland Stilled W. BOURNE COCKRAN DIES OF APOPLEXY rOLLOWiNC PARTY

Brilliant Orator Made Speech Yesterday in Congress, /?!/ United press WASHINGTON, March I.—W. Bourke Cockran, Democratic Representative from New York City, uml one of the outstanding advocates of Irish freedom for many years, died here this morning. Cockran burst a blood vessel during one of liis characteristic speeches in the House last night. The burst blood vessel resulted in a hemorrhage the brain. Cockran becoming seriously 111 shortly after midnight, following a dinner party he and Mrs. Cockran gave. A stroke of apoplexy this morning was the Immediate cause of death. Cockran was considered one of the most brilliant orators of Congress. His debate on the prohibition issue with William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic national convention in San Francisco was one of the outstanding events of the 1020 campaign. Cockran tvas 6!) years old yesterday. He celebrated his birthday by taking a prominent part in the proceedings of the House. His fatal speech was on rural credits legislation.

as "hot beds of crime,” and resorts of bootleggers and people of ’’all sorts of questionable character.” “Betting grew wild each night after the bootlegg'ers came in,” the jury was told. “Goosie” 1.00 sat at one end of the table and "Joker” at the other, with hundreds of dollars on it. Men would gamble, lose their money, and then go out to got some more in a hurry any way they could.” Attorneys for the defendants, Eph Inman and Tra L. Holmes, who have the reputation of being high-priced lawyers,’reserved their opening statement until conclusion of State’s testimony.

IRISH WAR BRIDE TELLS OF WOE

From Liverpool, England, (o the juvenile court in Indianapolis as a plaintiff is a long and unhappy road, Bridget Beeper, Irish war bride of Everett Beeper, 523 Madison Ave., said today. Beeper was on enlisted man in the Canadian forces in England during 1018. It was there that Mrs. Beeper, then a girl of 17. met him. She

day from the sugar consumers. They are getting from IV2 cents to 2 cents a pound on sugar more than conditions warrant. Sugar consumption is averaging slightly more than 12.000 tons a day. That means the daily gouge runs from $350,000 to $500,000. W hen prices reach 10 cents a pound to the consumer—the price fixed by the big gambler—the daily gouge will he about one and one-quarter million dollars. W hat happened in the last big gamble and gouge was reviewed. At that, time consumers were frightened into buying sugar. Immediately an artificial and temporary shortage of sugar was created. Prices began to jump and with every jump

lent™ GET YOU If YOU DON’T BIT OUT Township Assessor Puts 45 Fair Sex Deputies on Job. Do you contemplate hiding the phonograph In the woodshed and burying the family .silver in the coal pile against the dav the tax assessor comes ai ourid? Might as well drop the plan. Township A.-sessor M. I. Jefferson thinks he has a way to fool you, after all He has j laced women ot: the trail and everybody knows one cannot til. as easily to a \tornan as to a m n. Instructions w re given today to 143 deputy assessors who will serve during the 13?3 assessing period. Forty- j five are women. ‘‘l used several women last year and they were the best deputies 1 had," said Jefferson The township, which includes most j of Indianapolis, has been divided into 122 districts, with a deputy for each The remainder of the i t.", will do special or office duty. Flrteen more are to be appointed for office work. m STOSS ILL: NAME IS MISUSED

Attorney's Wife Is Victim of Prisoner's TrickEmphatic denial that a woman j who gave the name of his wife when charged with petit larceny by detec tives Wednesday, was Mrs. Slugs, was made today hv Ellis E. Slues. Attorney, 3002 l’ark Ave. Metcctives charged I the prisoner stole several small ar tides in downtown department stores. Mrs. Sluss is ill at home because of the alleged shoplifter’s action in i using her name. At police headquarters it was said j I when the woman was arrested she i gave the name of Mrs. Nora Sage. 45, | Noblesville,” but that when she was | slated she said her "real ' name was I ’’Mrs. Anna Sluss.” giving the address i of Attorney Sluss. Mrs. Sluss is widely known as an j estimable woman. She is a member j of the Oadle Tabernacle choir. HUGHES SENDS SHARP NOTE TO GREAT BRITAIN Declares Consulate :tl New Castile Will Not Be Reopened. Bp I tiitrii I'rrs.v WASHINGTON. March 1 The American Government, today made plain to (treat Britain the T T . S. displeasure at the British attitude In the virtual expulsion of two American con- | suls from New t 'astie. England. In a noticeably sharp note Secretary ; Hughes declared the consulate at New j Caatle would not be reopened. FLOOR SPACE IS DOUBLED Cily Becomes Distributing Feint for U. S. Rubber Company. Work of doubling the floor space ; of the Unite-1 States Rubber Company, 32 E. Georgia St., is nearing com pic-! tion. The eonipany will have approxi- j mately 22,000 square feet. Indian-) apolis will become the center of distribution for rubber and mechanical goods of the company. George (). Rallnnce, new manager of the Indianapolis branch, said the plant, when completed, will be one of the largest distributing centers in the Middle West.

was working in a munitions plant. “I thought America would be the most wonderful place in the world, lie told me lots of untruths about this country,” she said in a charming Irish brogue “But it is not so nice.” Mrs. Beeper has lived in Indianapolis about two years. She has brought suit her husband.

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‘NEWBERRYISIYI’ IS CRY OF BEATEN CONGRESSWOMAN Mrs. Huck Charges Opponent Spent SIOO,OOO to Win — He Makes Denial. /<v Unitrd Press CHICAGO, March I.—Mrs. Winifred .Mason Huck, defeated for the nomination for Congress from the •Second Illinois district In Tuesday’s primary, perfected her plans today to contest the election before Congress. I shall charge that Morton D. Hull, who beat me by only 5.000 votes, spent SIOO,OOO to win," Mrs. Huck said. “The law permits him to spend only 5.000. His action puts him in the Newberry class.” Mrs. Huck said she would file her charges immediately on her return to Washington, where she is serving as Congressman at largo. Hull denied the charges. "I doubt if my total expenses exceeded $2,500,” he said. “I will file, n tabulation of my primary expenses in a few days.” Mrs. H. k was one of six candidates for tin- Republican nomination in the Second District. The count showed, Hull, 17,642; Huck, 12,744. The third man ran about three thousand votes behind the Congresswoman.

ANNE MORGAN SEES NEEDS OF FRANCE Relief Worker, Here to Boost Work, Urges America to Stretch Helping Arm Across Waters.

‘‘America must come to the rescue of devagted France. We can best do our share by assisting in the work that tile French have to do. We must work with them.” So said Miss Anne Morgan, first vice chairman of the American committee for devastated France, in Indianapolis today to further work of the committee. "The work of the committee is to assist In the development of France,” continued Miss Morgan. We are not so much interested in the wood and stone development as in the development of souls and bodies. “The greater part of the work done by the relief association is in public

charging desertion. “He never did have a steady job. Two weeks on one job was wonderful for him,” the wife charged. “I am having a terrible time. I think I shall get my two chtdren in some sort of a home and get myself a job.” Mrs. Leeper la Jiving at 430 E New York St.

the panic demand for sugar increased. The consumers inevitably helped the gamblers. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi had a bill on his desk which called for reduction in tariff duties on sugar. “I knew it could not be passed, but 1 wanted to call attention to the sugar situation and to ask some explanation of these high prices,” said Harrison. In the tariff commission, preparations are being made for the big “elastic tariff” fight of the year—on sugar. The growing outcry against manipulations in the sugar market has made certain a fight for lower tariff duties.

House Kills Bill to Permit Mayor to Declare Special Legal Holiday for Speedway Event —Governor Gets Memorial Day Measure. The House of Representatives voted today not to permit Mayor Shank to declare a holiday for the holding of the Speedway race, which can not, under the terms of a bill already passed, be held on Memorial day. The bill, giving the mayor the power, which had already passed the Senate, having been introduced there by Senators Miller and English of Indianapolis, was reported out of the committee on the city of Indianapolis with recommendations that action be

indefinitely postponed. The report was adopted without comment. The action of the House was at variance with the announced plan of Mayor Shank to attempt to have the race held on the Saturday before Memorial day. It was understood this day was to have bt'en declared a legal holiday if the bill had become a law. The bill prohibiting the ,race on Memorial day went to Governor McCray for his signature today. It was expected to be turned over to U. ,S. I-esh. attorney general, for an opinion as to its constitutionality. The Governor was expected to sign it unless the attorney general expressed the opinion it was unconstitutional. DIVORCE REFORM MEASURE KILLED House Votes Against Bill of Miss Rainey. The marriage and divorce reform bill introduced by Representative Elizabeth Rainey of Indianapolis was defeat the House today, 40 to 36. The me.sure provided that marriage license applications must be published two weeks before a license could t>e granted ;> 1 that Interlocutory decrees of one year must be made in divorce cases, an. a lumber of other changes in .. riage divorce laws. The bill was almost identical with the measure introduced by Senator Arthur Capper in the United States Senate. It was intended to be a step toward uniformity in marriage and divorce laws. Both Capper bill and the Rainey bill were written by Mrs. Edward Franklin White, deputy attorney general of Indiana WOMEN FAVOR RACE BILL Legislative Council Urges Governor to Sign Measure. A letter urging the signing of the Memorial day bill will be taken to Governor McCray, the Indiana Legislative Council of Women decided today. The council protested against a bill introduced by Representative Schwartz, doing away with prohibition legislation. A vote of thanks was given to Miss Ida Mix of Kokomo, who has had charge of the steering committee. IPBflW**.

health nursing and in the redevelopment of the public libraries. We are developing systems and training French workers who will carry on tlie work that we have started. “There are about 60,000 people in the region that we are caring for.” When asked her opinion on the occupation of the Ruhr, Miss Morgan replied: “I do not think I ought to discuss that question. The thing that we can do as individuals is to help bring about a better understanding and sympathy with the people of France.” ‘VICTIM’ STILL BREATHES “Cop Murdered,” Cries Voice Over Telephone. “A policeman or a fireman has been shot and killed,” said a voice over the telephone at 11 p. m. Wednesday, “he is at St. Clair St. and Alabama St.” In thirty seconds Sergeant O'Connor and the emergency squad were on their way. The “dead one” was lying on the sidewalk. Ho wore the uniform of a street car conductor. Police charged Paul Sanders, 713 NADelaware St_, with intoxication

Forecast PARTLY, cloudy tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature touight 35 degrees. Warmer Friday.

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mu BMS Police ‘Tag’ 350 Within an Hour as Violators of Revised Code. 1 Traffic Captain Michael J. Glenn feared today he would have to replenish his supply of stickers for automobiles of traffic ordinance violators. A special squad of traffiemen left police headquarters at 10 a. m. to see if the new traffic measure, in effect today, was being obeyed. Within an hour they had found more than 330 violations, principally of the flat-to-the-curb parking provisions on all streets The stickers pasted on the windshields ordered violators to come to traffic headquarters Friday. About fifty could not wait and rushed to Captain Glenn’s office. They were Instructed, warned and released. The traffiemen continued to paste stickers at the approximate rate of 100 an hour, Glenn said. The new ordinance provides for flat parking throughout the city, except on the Circle, around the city market on market days and in street centers already used for parking. Right-angle parking is permitted on the Circle and around the market and 45-degree parking in the street centers. Glenn said many of those who came in response to stickers said they either had not noticed the change in rules or had read of them, but paid no attention to them. Dozens of violators were found in the block In front of police headquarters in Albama St. U. S. BILL FOR RHINE WATCH IS 255 MILLION Dyes and Chemicals Will Re Taken in Payment. Bu United Press PARIS. March I.—America's bill for the watch on the Rhine was presented today and negotiations to consider reimbursement opened at the Quai D’Orsay. The United States expenses were $265,000,000. Inasmuch as it is impossible at the present time to collect that much money from Germany, who is to pay the bill, it is understood that dyes and chemicals will be offered in payment.

The Big Idea That Lies Behind Seizure of Ruhr What Is It? What Has France Up Her Sleeve? LLOYD GEORGE Will Answer These Questions in a Cabled Article to The Indianapolis Times READ IT! Saturday, March 3