Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 256

GERMANY IS OPPOSED TO Chancellor Cuno Declares Intervention Is Not Considered Now, REICHSTAG IS CROWDED r rench ‘Atrocities' Frequently Referred to by Speaker, By CARL D. GROAT I nitrd Press Stef! Correspondent BERLIN, Man h <>.—Germany -an not consider intervention at die present time. Chancellor Cuno declared in a speech to the Keiehstajr today. tiealintr with tire situation in the Ruhr. Later on. Cuno said, the Ger-j man government might listen ty a third party's attempt to intervene, I provided Germany entered into any I agreement reached cn an equal footing. Cuno frequently alluded to alleged ; French atrocities in the ocupied areas. | “it is strange that the world is ' witnessing what is going o;. in the j Ruhr without making any effort to intervene,” he said. A crowded house heard the chaneel-> ior's address. The members of the Reichstag had been convened two days ahead of time, following French occupation of Mannhc-im, Karlsruhe, ai.d Darmstadt. As the parliament met news was received that the French ha 1 pushed forward further, occupying Rem scheid, and WipperFuerth. east by southeast of Dusseldorf. The move widens the base of the Ruhr salient. NEW TURK OFFER MADE Poincare Has Peace Proposal For Mustapha Keniai. By United Press CONSTANTINOPLE. March *?.— Premier Poincare has rra dc ■ new peace offer to the Turks, presumably similar to a recent note to Mustapha Kemal. Constantinople newspapers r< ported today. Ferious desertions from the Tarkisn a •my are said to have taken place FRENCH REFUTE CHARGE Denial Is Made of Any Annexation of Occupied Areas FARTS, France, March 6.—The French had ready refutation of Chancellor Cuno's charges and pro tests regarding extension of r he occupied areas today. A semi official note denied France bad any idea <>£ seeking annexation. y>oirts out that this country has cx pended nearly fifty four billions of francs on the devastated areas while Germany’s total reparations payments have been but six billion marks, and that the Germans, having manipulated the mark, are buying coal abroad.

WALKED 10 OPEN AT MIJRAT MAY 1 Members of Former Company Will Have Parts, Stuart Walker will open his regular Indianapolis season at the Murat Theater Tuesday. May 1. according to present plans. Walker will open his Cincinnati season at the Cox Theater Monday. March 19. with “Adam and Eva.” .Spring Byington and Lawrence Hebe will play the leads. It is understood Miss Bylngton. Blanche YuYka. George Somnes. Tom Powers, Elizabeth Patterson. Judith Lowry and Alrioh Bowker will again be members of Walker’s Indianapolis company. RAY THROUGH THE MIST State to Install Smoke Consumers at . Capital. A ray of sunshine beamed through the smoke problem of Indianapolis today. The State, one of the chief offenders of the city anti-smoke ordinance, took steps late Monday to , urb the black streams of smoke that drape the Capital build) and the business district in the west part of the city, with the passage of Representative Updike's concurrent resolution in the Senate late Monday, 28-0. It had passed the House. The resolution provides the State shall install smoke consumers in the Statehouse stacks Senator Daily of Indianapo’* • spoke in favor of the resolution. THE WEATHER HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m........ 25 10 a. m 34 7 a. m 34 11 a. in. 33 S a. m 34 15 (noon) ... 33

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Friend of ‘Flush ’ Days Fails to Repay Loan When Girl Is Broke

A FRIEND in prosperity forgot Irene N'egley, 19, of 6116 N. New Jersey St., when a rainy day arrived. She is held unde.' S2OO bond awaiting trial in city court Thursday. Detective Hazel LaMar said the girl, penniless and hungry after losing her job. ate in restaurants without having funds to pay. The girl promised the manager of one lunch room she would pay him Saturday. “How did you expect to get the money.” sh< was asked. “< >h a boy friend borrowed $lO from mo some time ago. U<* promised to pay. she replied. “Hut he did not.” The girl had nothing in her pocketbook. but a powder puff, and a 1.10 check or, a lunch room, when

WISE SHOWS HE IS, IN TRAFFIC JUMBLE Jokers Discover Councilman Knows Ail About Fine Points of New City Ordinance.

Folks who trifle with Councilman Walter W. Wise about this newfangled traffic ordinance had better "know their oats.” Wise said so himself today, after he had sat down hard on some of his friends who tried to tell him his car was parked wrong in Ohio St., in front of tin city hall. Knowing the fine points of the new rules, because he sponsored the or EX-CONGRESSMAN JOINS GIRLS’ ANTI-FLIRT CLUB Warns Against Men Who Ask Them to Go Auiomobiling. By I nited Press WASHINGTON, March 6.—Manuel Herrick, ex-Congressman from Oklahoma. who sirred the Capital months ago with his crusade against beauty contests, today joined the Anti-Flirt Club, composed of pretty Government workers. Herrick urged the girls to he “strong of heart, grit your teeth and forge ahead in your righteous cause.” He warned them to beware of tbe young man who asks girls to go automobiling. DEATH ASKED FOR WOMEN BLUEBEARDS Prisoners Alleged to Have Carried Out Wholesale Poison Plots. Hu I nited Press CHICAGO, March 6.—The death penalty was asked by prosecutors today at the opening trails of Mrs. Tillie Kllmek and Mrs. Nellie Koulik, alleged “female Bluebeards ” The women are alleged tc have carried out a wholesale poison plot which claimed at least six lives and caused serious illness to nearly a score more. Two Automobiles Missing Two automobiles were missing today. The car of R. P. Reinhart, 1812 Central Ave.. was stolen from the Temple garage, 924 N. Illinois St. An automobile owned by Rose S. DeHoss, 914 S. West St., was taken from in front of hi3 home.

What Legislature Did —and Did Not Do

Here is a summary of important action approved by the Seventy-Third Indiana Assembly, which finished its work early today : Appropriation of $17,000,1 )(>O. including $2,000,000 for reformatory. Soldier bonus, cost, about $20,000,000. Two-cent gasoline tax. Motor license fees nearly doubled. Purchase of Dunes Park, Porter County, authorized. Cost, about $1,000,000. *

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arrested as she left a tea room Monday alter evading the cashier, according to Detective LjMv A powder box was in the girl's room. Fhe said that when the company for which she worked moved away and *he lost her job. her landlady ejected her and kept her clothes for back rent. In one downtown restaurant the girl ate a meal, shifted to another table, ate again and was stopped while trying to walk out, the detective charged. The girl is alleged to 1 ive admitted she took anew hat at a downtown store, leaving her old hat. Relatives from Lawrence, link, arrived today in an effort to tal • the girl home.

dinance. Wise noticed ail cars in Ohio Sr., between Delaware and Alabama Sts. were parked H.it-to-the-curb. “We'll just show ’em—just let a traffic cop tag our cars, ' remarked Wise to Councilman Ben H. Thompson. as the two left their automobiles at a forty-five-degree angle. Other councilmen fell into the trap. They twitted Wise. He flashed this section of the ordinance on them: “In Ohio St., from Delaware to Alabama St., vehicles shall be parked at an angle of forty-five degrees." The jokers offered as an alibi tbe fact that the sentence is part of a paragraph permitting angle parking around the city market on market days only. Wise said this was a typographical error: it should have been a separate paragraph. REGINALD C. VANDERBILT WEDS GLORIA MORGAN Millionaire, 42, and Consul’s Daughter, 18, Are Married. Bu f’nited I’rrss NEW YORK, March 6.—Reginald C. Vanderbilt, millionaire, 42, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Miss Gloria Morgan, 18, daughter of Harry Mays Morgan. United States consul general at Brussels, obtained a marriage license at the Municipal building shortly before noon today—a few hours before their fashionable wedding nt tho Park Avenue home of tbe bride’s parents. MAN TALKS ‘TOO MUCH’ So Police Arrest Ilirn on Charges of Vagrancy. “He talked too much,” police said today, explaining why Everett V. Mahoney, 23, of 617 N. Alabama St., was arrested on a charge of vagrancy. A rooming house keeper on N. Alabama St. told police Mahoney had been wearing a “privilege badge" of the Cincinnati police department. It is alleged he boasted he was wanted in Lea Moines, lowa, and had been “run out” of Terre Haute and Cincinnati.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1923

Radio ‘Fails’ at 3 A. M. “The next number will l>e “Three O'clock in the Morning,” announced a voice over a radio broadcasting station. According to Everett Barnes, 3454 W. Michigan St., a fellow employe at the Link Belt factory who recently installed a radio set. regretfully deserted his chair at the receiving instrument, set his alarm clock for 3 a. in. and went to bed. Barnes says his friend still is wondering what was wrong with the new set. Ile failed to get a “connection” at 3 o’clock.

JUDGE HINIS GAS ruling SU*k him UUI i) liilfl Public Service Commission to Give Side In Rate Hearing, That ha would approve the report of William I*. Kappes, master iio chancery in the uas rate case, was indicated by dudge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today. When the heurinj adjourned at noon, Judge Anderson said that unless attorneys for the public sees ice commission were , I,i.> to change his mind this afternoon lie would order T2').000, impounded sin M 1922, turned over !o the Ui’.iz F,Company and would eon nue tie present rate of $1.20 in cff,-<; until tin ooininission sets rat*-. This, m ording to A. B. Crock, attorney f,,r h commissum. will be it. ix y to ninety days, although lie admi td it w.,s possible to <lo i> sooner. In approvim- the mo te:':- report, • tempt to lix a rate, ho said, lie specifically stated the tin court was not n Kite-making body; Hint rate setting was a function of the commission. The only thin.: the court could do. ho na.id. was to ; nd whether the rate set was confiscatory. lb .aid lie felt a he ,-ent rate v. o • .liory. Cronk admitted tin Although the com mis- on rna !•* no fight against the master finding that 7 per cent was a fair rate ~f return for the company .Judge Anderson .aid he was inclined to believe this was too high , figure. He also sai l he did not beliov, the value of intangibles should bo t .ken Into consideration In fixing a rate. Throughout the hearing he re peati i that lie did not. w.,nt to lie the hands of the conmu.-'-lon in fixing a rate. AJiTiicES WORLD’S LARGEST CORPORATION PLAN Parent of Indiana Bell Company May Increase Capital to $1,000,000,000, The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which owns 9S per cent of tho stock of the Indian.t Bell Telephone Company, will become the world’s first billion dollar concern, siccording to press dispatches from New York today. It is regarded as certain that recorri mendsitions of the directors to increase tne capital took from $750,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 will be approved by stockholders March 27. The company pad available dividends of $11.14 on each SIOO share last year. The dividend balance, representing an increase of 20 per cent over 1921, amounted to more than $66,000,000. Hearing on a rate increase asked by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company has hem under wax before the public service commission several months. Last year the company tiled an injunction suit in Federal Court asking that the commission be restrained from interfering with a rate increase.

Board of agriculture authorized to spend $1,000,000. Blind school removal provided. Cost, $200,000. Booze laws strengthened. Second city court established in Indianapolis. Tax levy for Indianapolis sanitary board increased. Co-operative farm marketing organization authorized.

Share Sought in Land Bought for $24, Worth Nearly Billion * e J £' A .jjMBBBb | . '. > 'ammr.mr

MRS. ETTA B. JENNINGS

'|| N 1626 Fetor Minuit, first Dutch I Governor Lit' New Amsterdam, now New York, brought down u storm of indignation upon his ad ministration when he paid the In diaiis the outrageous price of $24, in beads, blanks and whisky, for the island of Manhattan. The tiansaetion w., !!:■■ real political scandal of the p, nod and poor Peter barely escaped impeachment as a result of his extravagance. I-ess than 300 years later, several hundred descendants of Peter Ciaesen Wijkhoff are attempting to establish their claim to 160 acres of this same .Manhattan Island. At a conservative estimate the land now is worth $850.000.01,0. It includes the sites of ,*1), Woolworth and Slnaer building. Tin ee hundred descendants ,if

WOMAN LEGISLATOR IS PLEASED WITH JOB Btit Does Not Believe ’Fair Sex’ Is Ready for Equal Representation in Party Organizations,

Women arc not ready for equal representation with men in politb tl party organizations, declared Kepres< I'tative Elizabeth Rainey. Marion County, today after two months of service as the only woman in the General Assembly. Mss Rainey is the second woman to s*-rve in the [legislature. The first, Mrs. Julia. Nelson of Muncie. served In 1921 While not enthusiastic about the “fifty-fifty” bill which would have required parties to give women offices alongside the men, Miss Rainey denounced methods by which the mean lire was suppressed to death in the House. "I want to sec women gel Into politics, but I hardly think we are ready to ask for a fifty fifty representation,” said Miss Rainey. “Women are overcoming timidity in politics, and I wish more would seek election to public office. This is bound to be followed by recognition of ability of women in party organizations.” Sorry the session is over. Mi - Rainey was back at work i:i a law office. She said she had no ambition to be re-elected. NO PLACE LIKE HOME. DECLARES HARRY THAW Millionaire Returns to Hospital \ftcr \ is.il to Mother. Bu I nited Xetrs PHILADELPHIA, March 6. “There’s No Place Like Home,” quoth Harry K. Thaw to reporters Monday, as ho returned to his quarters at the State Hospital for the Insane. Thaw has ended his ten-day vacation, spent with his mother. “Who’s loony now?” pondered one scribe, as he tried to figure out Thaw’s statement. Thief May Study E. A. Talbert Shelbyville, Ind., who parked his automobile at Ohio and Capitol Ave., Monday, told police today a brief case containing papers valued at S4O was stolen. Plumber Is Bankrupt Frank L. Judah, plumber. Bloomington, tiled a petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court today. Liabilities were $4,248.60 and assets $3,270.41.

Here are some of the measures that failed: County unit school administration. Motion picture censorship. Establishment of boxing commission. Marriage and divorce reform. Cigarette tax. County adoption of school books. Prohibiting Speedway race (vetoed). Mortgage exemptions of $2,000 instead of SI,OOO (vetoed).

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Wijkhoff met late Monday at the East Tenth St. Community House to form a permanent organization t>, take steps to try to recover the property. Theodore Decker, 722 Fulton St., was elected president and Thomas B. WikolT. SIT Eastern Ave.. secretary. “Many attempts to obtain the property have been made,” Wikoff said. "The last one. m 1 S4H, ended when a demurrer in six counts was sustained.” No court action will be taken at present, he said. Mrs. Etta B Jennings, Oxford, !r I . and J. R. Smock. 2530 Brookside Ave are active iri the organiza tion. Elxvafd ! Bogardus. 2247 N. Talbott St., head the committee on family history.

"Blit, of course.” she added, "it takes one se.--.-i >n to become used to legislative pro, dure, and I think the more experienced should be sent back. “We had some exciting tines. I didn't approve of all the tactics used. I hope several women will be sent to the House in 1925." DROWSY PHILADELPHIA BECOMES SPEED MAD One Thousand Xrrests Made During Past Week. Bu ' nited Xetrs PHILADELPHIA. March 6.—Arrest of more than 1.000 motorists here during the week-end focused attention or. the fact that “drowsy Philadelphia” h.-ir become the most speed-mad metropolitan community in America. RESCUE ATTEMPT FAILS; TWO KILLED Train Agent Makes Vain Effort to Save Aged Veteran. By United Press WARSAW, Ind.. March 6. —Frank Vantilbury, agent for the Pennsylvania Railraod at Uoesse, attempted to save William Snyder, Civil War veteran from a west bound Pennsylvania passenger train at Uoesse today and both were killed. C. OF C. DELEGATES NAMED Board of Trade Will Send Four to Convention in New York. Four delegates to the eleventh annual convention of the United States Chamber of Commerce in New YorkCity May 7-10, elected by the board of governors of tho Indianapolis Board of Trade are Harvey Mullins, L L. Fellows, William M. Howard and Edward B. Raub. Julian 11. Bobbs and Gilbert Clippinger have been elected lo the board of governors.

Preparations for 1923 Speed way Classic Advance Under Assurance of No Interference After Assembly Fails to Override Governor’s Move, EXECUTIVE RULES MEASURE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ‘Class Legislation,’ Says Message to Legislature—Senate Votes 31-5 Against Second Passage of Memorial Day Anti-Sports Bill. Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials today continued preparations for the 500-mile race to lie held Memorial day, with the assurance there would be no interference. Governor McCray at lip. m. Monday vetoed the bill, which would have made the Memorial day race unlawful. T. E. Myers, manager of the Speedway, declined to commment on the action of the Governor. “Enough has been said already/’ Myers said.

The Governor held the measure was unconstitutional. An attempt in the Senate to override the veto failed with five “ayes” ; and thirty one “noes.” This was the final act necessary to kill the bill. Roll ( all The message from the Governor | was delivered to the Senate by Miss j Ada Bush, his secretary. The Senate was silent as the comparatively long message was read. In a few minutes the bill was handed down for action by Lieut. Gov. Emmett F. Branch. The roll all proj ceem-d without comment. The vote: For Passage TVmocrat*—Chambers. Cravens. Dav.s. Durham. Easton—s. Against Repair, ar.s—Adams. barker. Baxter, | Br.arusle.v. Buchanan. Cann, Cleveland, i'aii.v. Dunn. English. Harlan. Hartzell. Hill. • Hodges Holmes, Merry. Miller. Ned.l. fvat<><!. Kn-hards. South worth. Steele, Swain. Van Orman—24 Demo. : ts—Batl. Crosby. Harmon. King, I-uU. Saunders, Shirley—7. Not Recorded Republicans Behnier Brov-n. Pitch, l.amb, rt. Lindley, Leonard, -Moorhead, Ni- hols- s Detnoer,:* —Krni. Hays. Henley. Lochard. Pwkin*. Sweeney—o. The record showed Robert L. Moorhead, author of the bill, did not vote, i The Governor vetoed the bill on the I ground it was class legislation. I “I have a sacred regard for the ■ traditions and purpose of Memorial ! day,” his message said. "I believe we owe a duty to the memory of the gallant heroes of the Civil War ! and all other wars that have come and gone since then. I would like to see the day devoted entirely to solemn observance of the proprieties which should accompany the day set aside for such a worthy purpose. Class Legislation “On the other hand, i do not like to see placed upon the statute books laws that are held to be strictly class legislation. 1 realize tho tendency of the times is in that direction and I consider such tendency extremely dangerous.” The Governor said he had advice from the legal department of the State and from eminent attorneys which had convinced him the bill was entirely unconstitutional. He quoted an opinion of Attorney General U. S. I-osh, in which I-esh I said laws affecting certain classes | should not be made unless there is no ; apparent reason why they should ho ; made general. The attorney general pointed out that under the bill a circus could be given on Memorial day. but a ball game could not be played and that theaters might operate but the Speedway might not. The Fight The vote of tho Governor ends the most spectacular fight in the Legislature. The bill was introduced in the Senate early in the session and passed with little opposition. Then the opposition grew. Local American Legion posts went on record against the measure. This action was opposed by / some of tho ; State officers and disintegration of the j legion was threatened. Numerous | civic and commercial organizations i went on record against the bill. A ! st rong obby was developed by each I side. When the measure came to a vote lit passed by a very small margin in the House. When it was sent to the Governor he immediately turned it | over to the attorney general. He also i asked outside counsel to express an opinion. Under a ruling of the at- | torney general, the Governor could 1 have helil the bill until after adjournment. but he chose to give the Legislature an opportunity to pass it over his veto.

QUEEN MOTHER IS ILL Daughter Called Suddenly to Parent’s Bedside in Italy. By United I’reaa ROME, March 6.—Queen Elena of Italy was suddenly recalled from Antibest today owing to the critical illness of her mother, Queen Milena. Thief Strips Auto When Henry Roberts, 3224 Bellefontaine St., got his sedan back today he found It had been stripped of two wheola, five tires, coils and tools. The car, stolen from in front of home Sunday, was found at Keystone Aar*. aaA Thirty-if ourth Sts.

Forecast UNSETTLED weather with probably light rain or snow tonight. Colder tonight with temperature near freezing.

TWO CENTS

COURT ORDERS 10 ALLEGED HIDE RESORTS CLOSED / County Prosecutor, for First Time, Takes Advantage of Volstead Act, Ten alleged bootlegging establishments in Muncie were ordered closed by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today in temporary' restraining orders against their operaJion. Hearings were set for March 30. | Twenty-four owners and operators ! xvere named. The suits were brought by Van L. j Ogle, prosecuting attorney of Delaware County. This is the first, time a county prosecuting attorney in Indiana has brought an abatement suit under the Volstead act in Federal ! Court. , Defendants: John and Maggie j Lampkins, and Frank L. Wachtell; ! Carrie Brown, Daisy Dean, William Smith and Benjamin Zimmerman, Ad- | die Holcomb and Emma Postal; | Charles Derbyshire and William Pat- : terson; Harry Sheets, Emma and [ Lewis Postal: Sidney and Mamie Al--1 len and Wilbert L. Gray, guardian of James W. Gray: John Cox and James, John, Patrick and Rose Muiphy; James Mabrey and Arthur J. LoganPaul and Bridget Karlen. RUDY FORCED TO PUT DPF WEDDING 'Sheik' Must Wait Until April for Remarriage, By I nited Press CHICAGO. March 6.—Rudolph Valentino has postponed his second marriage to Winifred Hudnut until April 10. After waiting all day Monday for word from Los Angeles that a decree of divorce from his first wife had been entered, the “sheik” postponed sh ceremony for one month. While his divorce was granted a year ago on March 4. the order was not signed until April 8 and Valentino must wait until that date b fore marriage to Miss Hudnut would be legal. Valentino expressed his disgust in three languages. SPRING IS ON ITS WAY Plans Made for First Circus of Season Here. The first circus of tho season has been tentatively booked. C. W. Finney,' general contracting agent of the Sells-Floto circus, was in Indianapolis today making tentative arrangements >, for the showing hero April 24. Present plans call for the opening of the circus at the Coliseum in Chicago for two weeks. Indianapolis will be the first one-day under canvas stand. Finney hopes to mako Indianapolis the permanent road opening date of Sells-Floto circus.

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