Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1923 — Page 1

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‘SIGN BONUS BILL’ LESH’S ADVICE TO GO VERNGRM’CRAY Constitutionality Test Is Favored After People Consider Measure, Recommendation by Attorney General U. S. Lesh that the soldier bonus bill be signed so It will go to r referendum In 1524, as the measure provides, without any attempt to pass upon its constitutionality at this time, was before Governor McCray today. The Governor still considered the bill, liaiing until Saturday to act. Lesh's opinion is understood to be at variance with the view of Governor McCray and other advisers who take the position the bonus violates that part of the State constitution which states' that the Legislature shall be the final authority' in making laws. It Is contended by some this makes a referendum ineffective. Asa result of the conflicting Ideas the fate of the bill was in doubt. If the bonus were adopted by popular vote in 1924 its constitutionallty then could be tested Lesh advised. The bonus would cost the State $20,000,009 and would be financed by a property and poll tax spread over several years. Veterans of the Spanish- American and World Wars would be granted $lO for each month of service with a maximum of $230. MANLEAPSFROM WASHINGTON SIFT Body Crushed in 550-Foot Fall to Sidewalk. 3p United Prrg __ WASHINGTON', March 9.—Beaping from the top of the Washington Monument, which towers 530 feet above the Nation's capital, an unidentified white man committed suicide today. The body wu.s crushed when found on the cement sidewalk below. BALFOUR ACCEPTS HARVEYCHALLENGE Britain Takes Issue With Ambassadors Statements, H/i United Prtv* LONDON. March 9.—Next word In the. unofficial controversy between the Earl of Balfour and Ambassador Harvey rests with the American envoy. Emerging from the philosophical retirement ha has enjoyed since ne entered peerage, Lord Balfour took emyhatic Issue last night with Harvey's challenge of the “Balfour note” regarding America’s conception of her loans to Britain. The United States did insist, the earl reiterated, that the British government guarantee loans to others of the allies. Harvey, in a recent speech, said he hoped the government would shortly take the occasion to retract Lord Balfour’s statement to this effect. SALARY UP TO COUNTY F.esh Opinion Holds State Should Pay Prosecutor Here. Opinion that $7,500, annual salary of the Marion County-prosecuting attorney, should be paid by the county is contained In a communication from Attorney Genera. U. S. Lesh today in response to an inquiry from Jesse Ilschbach, chief examiner of the State board of accounts. The opinion is an interpretation of the 1921 law, effective at the time William P. Evans, prosecutor, assumed office.

THE WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is unsettled with rain late this afternoon or tonight. Warmer tonight with temperature above freezing. Saturday fair and colder. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. ( a. m_... S2 10 a. in ..... 42 7 a. m..—.... S a. m.,,34 13 (noon) ........ 60 $a- HUmum 37 Ip. m.-,,—. 64

Lloyd George Wi.o Believes Francs Erred in Invading the Ruhr, bonders if She "Will Have ihe Courage to Admit Her Mistake.

Read Results in Pink Extra The Times will publish a special edition late today, following the regular Pink. giving the result of the Manual-Martins-ville basket-ball game.

‘ARSENIC TWIN’ BLAMES BACK mm Mrs, Tiliie Klimek Says ‘Catty’ Neighbors Are Cause of Difficulties. By United Pres* CHICAGO, March 9. —Back-fence gossip of “catty” neighbors was blamed today by Mrs. Tiliie Klimek, on trial charged with poisoning her third husband, for her difficulties. Mrs. Klimek is one of 1 chared with six deaths by poison plots. Mrs. Klimek, who may not be allowed to tell her story from the witness stand by her attorneys, declared today: “I no poison Frank —I try keep him safe.” The roman, who faces a demand by prosecutors that she be hanged for her alleged “arsenic parties,” pointed to the first evidence presented by j the State, as proof of her claims that ! gossip was responsible for the charges. In broken English she declared the first four witnesses included her former “boska” (landlady) and three neighbors, who held grudges. "They ail tell about same thing—j coffin, hat and -music,” Mrs. Klimek ; said, referring to testimony that she bought a coffin and trimmed her hat in mourning before Frank Kupczy died, and after his death played jazz music <ri a phonograph in the same room with the coffin. The State today presented the first testimony connecting Kupczyk’s death with the arsenic alleged to have been administered by the ’female Biue- . beard.” Chemists testified to the finding of "enough arsenic to kill three men” in vital organs of Kupczyk’s body. WOOL PRICES WILL HIT PEAK IN 1924 Next Spring Will See High Mark, Expert Declares. /?•) United \'eim NEW YORK, March 9. —Wool prices are eoing up and will reach their peak lin the spring of 1924, according to William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company. Shortage of Australian wool will i boost the price to the factories this i summer, with a consequent increase 1 to the consumer the following spring. SICK ASK AID OF SOCIETY More Persons 111 Than Unemployed in Indianapolis During February. Illness passed unemployment and I took first place in cases handled by the i Family Welfare Society during Febru 1 ary, according to a report made by i Paul Benjamin, general secretary, to : the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce today. I Benjamin said various social | agencies probably would pool funds |to organize an employment bureau, should they be unable to make arrangements with the city and State. SAYS KOBY KICKED HIM William Carrie,-an Asks SIO,OOO for Three Broken I libs. Suit for SIO,OOO damages for a kicking in the ribs, alleged to have been received from Isidore Koby Jr., Jan. 23. 1923, was filed today in Superior Court, Room 5, by William Carrigan, 60, employe o fthe National City Bank. When Carriran was slow in getting a S2O bill out of his sock to pay for a drink at the Koby saloon, 427 W. Washington St_, according to I'. C. Riley ,his attorney, Isidore attacked him, breaking three ribs. TESTIMONY IS REVIEWED Telephone Attorney Attempts to -how Yariailon in Figures. Resume of testimony of William XL Crumb, Chicago telephone expert, in the public service commission's investigation of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company rates, occupied the greater part of today's hearing. William H. Thompson, Bell attorney, attempted to show variations in the testimonies, and referred to figures Crumb gave in a similar case in Mlch- | !gan. Glenn Van Auken, comrnis- ; sioner, objected to reference to the I Michigan testimonies and Thompson ! allowed them to be deferred.

Hopes of Fair Pupils Go With Manual Net Team

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LEFT TO RIGHT—KATHERINE WACKER. 2657 PARKWAY BLVD.J ALMA RASTER. $73 FLETCHER AYR: HERMAN HARTMAN, £35 S. NOBLE ST.; ELSIE SANDER, 805 N. KEYSTONE AYE., AND GRACE GRIMM, 28 S. TREMONT ST.

Manual Training High School gave its basket-ball team a riproaring send-off today when it left for Lafayette to meet Martinsville in the regional tournament. No group cheered more vigiously than the four girls shown herewith.

Bank Clerk Locked in Air-Tight Vault as Prank Is Rescued Hours Later, Bleeding and in Stupor

Pi United Pre*s I-y ATTERSON, N. J.. March 9. Asa result of being trapped in an air tight vault for nearly five hours, Charles Dl Oi.KXjmo has been stricken deaf and dumb. Physicians believe this condition is temporary'. Meanwhile, the lad who was rescued from the vault of the People’s Park Bank last night by men who smashed a hole through the steel and concrete roof, is communicating with doctors and nurses by means of scrawled notes. “1 can’t hear or speak,” said ore of these notes. Can’t you make them stop that terrible pounding?” Di Giacomo, accidentally locked in the vault by a youthful associate, William Templeton, was found near death, his hands and feet bleeding, after the rescuers had worked in relays for hour: drilling and burning their way through the thick steel roof.

LOCAL COURT ENDS FRENCH ROUE Complaints of Doughboy Lead to Divorce, | ’ For the second time in a week | marriages begun in France l,y j American doughboys ended in the | court here. Harry Rubin, 352 Good Are., conI tractor, was granted a divorce from • Fermande Itubin, his French wife, i who "crowned him” with a box, he | toM the judge. Rubin married in Matsons Aifort, France, July 7,19 ID, while a lieui tenant. Fermande was extravagant, spend-, ing money for luxuries and using money in gambling, Rubin testified. "She learned to speak English a little, but did most of her cussing in French,” Rubin asserted. Mrs. Rubin did not appear. Her | address is "somewhere in America." j lie gave her SI,OOO to visit her parI ents, and when he went to meet her on the return trip, lie found she had taken an earlier ship and disappeared. LOOT TOSSED OUT OF CAR Parker Teh's I’onrt of Escape From Ranh Robbery. Speeding away from the scene of their robbery of the Alert (Ind.) State Hank of $45,000 in bonds last May, De Witt Parker and Cecil Johnson tossed their loot from an automobile to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred laley, who pretended to be fishing six miles north of Alert, Parker testified in Airs Xsiey’s tidal in Criminal Court today. She is charged with conspiring with six others to rob the bank. Defense atomeys made sarcastic remarks about Mayor Shank when testimony showed he assisted local detectives in the investigation, in which several members of the, alleged gang were arrested here. Posses Trail Nerg© Convict By r-nitrd Press NASHVTLI.E, Tenn., March 9. i Posses with bloodhounds trekked through the mountains near tho Kentucky line today In search of Lewis Douglas, negro convict, who wounded five persons at Spencer yesterday.

“The Tangle 9 Fascinating Story of Human Emotions and Passions

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1923

with the Manual yell leader, Herman Hartman. Nor did the pupils stop yelling when the team left. Borrowing from Cone, they prepared to use autosuggestion while the boys were going through their battle. Although school .was not (lls-

The clerk's plight was the result of a joking prank. As ho was working r.ea.r elu.ur.g time'ln the vault, Templeton, lrs chum, ch!> 1 to him to “hurry up, or I’ll lock you in.” In Giacomo answered laughingly and T-nip)*ton, author{ties said, gave the door a slight shove “to scare him.” Time Lock ( lamps The door moved easier than Templeton thought and as he heard the time lock's click he ran screaming to Garret Ki-.nkken, cashier. The vault, of highly scientific construction, once locked in the evening could not be opened until 8:3" the next morning. Jacob Kusl n r, banker, directed the rescue. He sent in an alarm that brought firemen, police, hospital attaches, a physician and skilled workmen from construction firms ■ .1 -io at •. io company. La relays, the men attacked the 18-incl ro< sos the vault with drills and torches, the latter being

Slayer Host at Banquet in Cell Before Hanging

‘Eat, Drink and Be Merry’ ! s Slogan at Grim Feast— Guests Siccp as Companion Coos to Gallows.

By T„H,d Press i"Vr. MADISON, Town, March 9. —A few hours before he went to the gallows today Earl Throst, murderer, entertained other Inmates of the condemned cells in Towa State Prison at a farewell banquet. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die,” was the slogan of the prisoners, each of whom is doomed. WOMEN COPS FIST SHOTSINPURSUIT Timely Freight Train Only Delays Youth's Arrest, Undaunted when their pursuit of a fugitive was blocked by a freight train after a swift chase in which three shots were tiiVd Thursday night. Policewomen Brewer and I taker to day returned to the home of Ernest Cosby, 36, colored, 1332 Yandes St., and arrested him for failure to pay S2O due on a city court tine which had been stayed several months ago. When the policewomen went to Cosby’s home Thursday night, he went out the back door "forty miles an hour,” the women said. Policewoman Brewer fired threo shots. Each increased Cosby's speed, they said. Cosby leaped across a track just before a freight train barred his pursuers. Cosby’s sister paid tho S2O today and he was released. Elks Rededicate Home By Timm Special NOBLESVI LEE, Ind., March o. Charles J. Orbison of Indianapolis was tho speaker at tho rededication of tho Elks' home, which has been remodeled at a cost of $40,000. An Initiation and banquet was held. D<m Allrhan, State secretary, also made a short talk.

Norma Talmadge Favorite Screen Star Gives Valuable Advice on Etiquette

missed, between fifty and seventyfive rooters went to Lafayette. Some went via train and motor. Four or five boys started the seventy-mile trip on foot. They hoped to “pick up" motor rides on the way. if the team defeated Martina-

abandoned as the first small opening was made to save the air inside. Through this first opening Dr. Irving Newman placed an oxygen tube and himself manned oxygen pumps. Kushner dropped a note to the boy toiling him he would soon be out, but the lad was already unconscious and near complete sui! i ‘di' ■ n. Hundreds Throng Frene As hundreds crowded outside the bank, the rescuers worked desperately. Kushner had an ambulance back'd up to the door, (he motor running and th' 1 driver at the wheel) ready for a dash to the hospital. Another hour's work end he lowered himself into the vault and brought Di Giacomo out. As the boy’s parents heard the cheers of the crowd at the rescue, they <•■ llapsed in their homo where they ha 1 been p* rsna-led to stay, Templeton also collapsed as the rescue neared completion.

There were four guests nt this grim fens*. which started at ntlnnight, while guards wore preparing the gallows fur the host. The dinner was arranged at the request of Throst, who said that he would like to give a party for “the boys.” The clock ticked away the minutes, each bringing the host nearer his execution. He presided graciously at th- head of the table. His jokes made the condemned men laugh heart ljy. When the meal was ended, the guests sat around the table a while longer, chatting. Then Throst said good night. The men returned to their cells. At sunrise Throst walked out into the rain and paid the penalty for murdering Inga Magnussion, a school teacher. Twelve minutes after he mounted th scaffold, and while his dinner guests still dept, he was dead. REINFORCEMENTS ADVISED Engineers Report on Breakdown of Keystone Are. Concrete Road. Recommendation that concrete roads be reinforced with stdel was made in a report to county commissioners on reasons for the faulty con dition of the Keystone Ave. paved road. Cracks and breaks in the cement are due to heavy traffic, said A. L. Donaldson, engineer-examiner for the State board of accounts, and 11. A. Blum, civil engineer.

Quadruplets Pu I nil' i! Press LEYVISIiURG, W. Va„ March 9, —Mrs. Homer Me.Ylann, mother of quadruptlets born last night, is fighting to live. Her strength, over taxed, is ebbing. Mrs. McMann, in twenty years of married life, has had twenty children, including three sets of twins and the quadruplets. Six children have died. The quadruplets, all boys, are normal.

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ville Its next game would be at -4 p. rn. Saturday with winner of the Bainbririge Brook game today. Winning this gamo would give Manual the right to play In the State championship games here Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 17.

Dl Giacomo's face was bruised and blackened. Ids finger nails torn and bleeding as he was carried out, evidence of the terror he had gone through before he lost his senses. Iks body was limp and his breathing hardly discernible with medical instruments. Pt Giacomo, was a crack athlete and his splendid physical condition enabled him to survive bis experience. One of the first visitors of the youth's bedside today was Templeton, the clef k who playfully closed the vault door on his follow worker. He wanted to ask forgiveness, but Di Giacomo was to ilk The vault in which Pi Giacomo was imprisoned was considered absolutely Impregnable. It took forty men four and a half hours to ent *r it. An ext ort, lowered through the hole in the roof, took the mechanism apart from the inside and permitted the great pate to swing open.

NEW, MAIL BOSS, GREETS OPTIMISTS Promised Cooperation by Employes Here, ; Harry S. New, postmaster general, addressed the Optimist (Rub at the | Cla.vpool today. New was, greeted by approximately eight hundred employes at a reception Thursday night in the Circuit Court room of the Federal building. Postmaster Robert Bryson presided. He expressed pride in having an Indianapolis man as “bc-ss” of the mail service. "I am convinced that the personnel of the Indianapolis postofiice ranks second to none In the entire country,” he said. "I bespeak for you. Mr. Post master General, the same loyalty and cooperation they have given me.” CITY SUED FOR $20,028 Jennings Brothers Allege Sum Due for Conduits. A complaint to collect $20,028.6S ftom ihe city and the board of stlnitary commissioners was filed today In ; Superior Court by Jennings Brothers, real estate. The money is alleged to be due for conduits in the new sewage disposal plant. Plaintiffs say they received the claim in return for settling the accounts of the Bunting Contracting Company, which did the work. The city has refused to pay on the ground it is net sure all claims for material have bcnc settled, it was said. TAX-DODGING EXPENSIVE Indiana Harbor Man Finds Boast Does N'ot Pay. Tax dodging proved expensive sport for Frank Kornet of Indiana Harbor. It cost him S2OO and costs to dodge an income tax of s9l. and now he; must i>ay the tax anyway. * Kornet pleaded guilty to a charge I of failure to file an income tax return j for the year 1920 before Judge Albert; B. Anderson Thursday. Ho is a citizen of Poland. Officia ls of the internal revenue de- j parturient said Kornet boasted he had j not filed a retuna fpid would not pay < a tax.

Wholesalers Raise Cry of ‘Trust’ and ‘Corner’ as Retail Figure Goes to 11 Cents —Buyers Urged Not to Aid increase by Heavy Purchases, Sugar was retailing in Indianapolis today as higli as 11 cents a pound. Yet wholesale grocers said there is no sugar shortage. Some chain stores were charging less than 11 cents, hut wholesalers believed they were making such sales at a loss. Wholesalers were hesitant about having their names used in connection with statements about the sugar situation, but did not hesitate to express their minds privately.

“There is no shortage in sugar and no great demand that would be an excuse for an increase in price,” one said. “The only answer is a sugar corner in the East. A few men have formed a trust and cornered the market to recover from losses suffered when sugar dropped. Wholesaling for §9.83 “Sugar Is wholesaling today' for $3.85 a hundred pounds. That represents a profit of just 35 cents a hundred pounds for the wholesale grocer. “Retailers might tell you we are holding thpm up. We are not holding anybody up. We are being held up.” This grocer said his concern was not buying sugar in large quantities because it was Impossible to determine what will happen to the price. Sugar, since the war, has been down as low as 7 cents on the local retail market, having dropped from a high point of 30 cents. No repetition of the sugar riots of the war period was expected by grocers, for they •■vers confident they could fill every' demand, although they could, not control the price. Snsrar Trust’9 Came Housewives and other buyers are being advised not to purchase large quantities. It was said if they were to create an artificial demand, they will play into the hands of the sugar trust and make an excuse for higher prices. According to a dispatch to the Times from Washington, cane sugar end Leet sugar inter-sts are at war. The beet sugar people say $68,000,000 j Yas been paid in cash dividends by the | cane sugar interests on an original investment of $6,000,000. The dispatch quoted Senator Reed Smoot ns declaring-. “There is no ex cuso for this sugar price. The big refiners who own practically every foot of ground in Cuba which will produce sugar are just boosting the prices. They lost millions last year when they forced sugar down in their (.Tort to kill off the beet sugar indus try. Now they are boosting prices ar.d trying to collect back their losses.”

Smoot After Tariff I Smoot is said to be fighting the sugar trust because the sugar trust is fighting the tariff in which smoot is interested. Smoot is quoted as telling this ; story: Henry O. Havemeyer, head of the ; “trust,” took eighteen independent | and practically bankrupt refining j companies, with a total caiptal stock ;cf $6,690,000, par value. That was ! the beginning of the sugar trust. On that basis, he issued immediately $50,000,000 of new' trust stock, or an increase of 750 per cent. Later he increased that to $75,000,000 and then to $90,000,000. In the first ten years of existence, the sugar trust earned some $65.000.000 on that original stock of $6,690,000. THREE DROWN WHEN AUTO SKIDS IN DITCH Dead Were Pinned Under Machine in Three Fee# of W ater. By T'nitnl Frets COLUMBUS GROVE. Ohio. March 9. —Three persons were drowned when their automobile skidded into a ditch today. Two others escaped with slight injuries. The dead: Mr. and Mrs. I'eter Sonnak, 25, Cloverdale, and their IS months old daughter. They were pinned beneath the car in three feet of water. ‘KNOCKOUT' IS MYSTERY Gem Salesman Wonders How He Got iti Hospital. Ttis face black and blue from I bruises, Sigmond Burg of Chicago, j jewelry salesman, today walked into police headquarters to find out what and who it was that struck him at New York and Delaware Sts. Thursday night. Police, with no report from the traffic officer who sent Burg, unconscious to the cit yhospital, or from the person who struck him, started an investigation. Burg was on his way to his automobile, parked on Massachusetts Ave. His car and jewelry cases were left in a garage at 3:10 N. Delaware St. Go to Prison Monday Twenty-three Federal prisoners sen- | tenced to prison for various terms will be taken to Atlanta, Ga„ Monday by deputy United States marshals. Thurston Is Luncheon Guest Thurston, the magician, was the guest of honor at a meeting of the Exchange Club at the Lincoln today. Guy Jeffries was booster for the meeting.

lira Saturday’s Times ORDER THE PAPER DELIVERED CALL CIRCULATION DEPT., MAIN 3500

Forecast UNSETTLED with rain late this afternoon or tonight. Warmer tonight. Saturday fair and colder.

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GOLF FANS SEEK LOWER FEES FOB HIM LINKS Commercialism Charged to City as Rates on Courses Soar, Desire for lower golf fees on municipal courses probably will be carried to the board of park commissioners by golfers dissatisfied with increased fees in effect this season. Statements that the city Is commercializing the game b 7 treating tha courses as a producer of revenue in-] stead of a means of affording recreation for the great masses of the people have been made. Semi-Private Clubs It also has been charged that the demand for higher fees originated wit la a minority of golfers who wished tM ivate clubs by putting the fees so high that golfers of moderate income would be unable to play. The general sentiment of the protesting golfers was expressed by P. IC. La wall, 430 N. Dearborn St., formerly champion of the old Ellenberger course. “The recent article in the Times about the Increased fees on the city courses was very timely,” he said. "It expressed the sentiments of about ninety-five per cent of the golfers. Certainly Should Organize “I have yet to meet one that thinks $35 for Riverside and Highland courses la fair. Those opposed to the present fees certainly should organize.” There is now no free golf course in Indianapolis. For several years South Grove had that distinction, but last fall fees were charged.

FRENCH OCCUPY BRITISH ZONE Troops Move Into Rhine Area Near Cologne, By lit I ted Pres* COLOGNE, March 9,—French troops have occupied Engelskirchen, partly within the British Rhine zone, French continue to widen their- salient in the Ruhr and strengthen positions in industrial cities. Passive acts of sabotage were reported from wide areas in th® eons occupied by the Invaders. Eight Miners Killed By Vnitrd Press SUTEXDAD, Belgium. March 9. Eight miners were killed and fifteen Injured when the Courcelles min® was accidentally flooded here yesterday. HIT BY COP CAR; FINED Post-office Motorcyclist On Wrong Side of Street. Asa result of an accident late Thursday in which a police emergency squad car struck a motorcycle driven by Milburn Coleman, 20, colored, 411 W. Pratt St., postcfflco messenger, Coleman was fined $1 and costs in city court today for driving on the left side of the street. The accident was on Senate Ave., between Fourteenth and Fifteenth Sts. Harry Reeves, 21, colored, 1754 Cornell Ave., riding in the motorcycle sidecar, was bruised and the auto and motorcycle slightly damaged. Johnson Hits World Court By Vnited Press NEW YORK, March 9.—President - Harding's proposal that the United States enter the international court of justice was assailed last night by Senator Hiram W. Johnson as "the first step toward American membership in the League of Nations.”