Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1923 — Page 1

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‘CHILD SAFE’, NOTE FROM KIDNAPERS Mystery Letter to Albany Jurist Says Baby Will Be Returned, BULLETIN ALBANY. X. Y„ March 10. —“Your child is safe and will he returned. The nurse is safe.” This note, bearing an Albany postmark, was received today by Mrs. Leopold Minkin, whose baby son Leopold disappeared Thursday. Bv r nitrd Pre ■< ALBANY. X. Y.. March 10.— Baby Leo Minkin, who disappeared with his nurse Thursday, is believed held by kidnapers in Troy. N. Y., or Bennington, Vt. Police of those cities are making a house to house search of some districts. State troopers end farmers are covering every inch of ground l,“tween Troy and Vermont State line, on th theory the abducted boy may be hidden in some lonely spot in that vicinity. The Minkin child. 3 years of age son of City Judge Leopold Minkin, vanished Thursday aft, r having been taken for a walk by a nurse, who had just been employed. This nurse gave the r.am“ of Mary t'onlcling One of th“ first clews led to Bennington, Vt.. but police stated there was no trace of the child there, a ftw hours iafer detectives ascertained that a girl answ. • :i,g the description nm nurse worked there several weeks ago. so the seaich swung back to that city. Ix*dges Aid in Hunt Instructions were llisr.ed today to ■•verity-five lodges ot Lifts throughout the State to aid in the bunt. Motion picture companies were also making preparations to show photographs of the lad in movie theaters all over the East. Tracing the movements of the nurse girl prior to the kidnaping, detectives found she had lived at the Y. W. C. A. under the name of Anna Vigaro. In a handbag the manuscript of a fiction ■tory was found. It told of the hardships suffered by a poor v orking girl in the Paterson (X. J. silk mills. A letter was found whlcr. indicated the nur3e maid had been employed by a family in Newburg. X. Y. Detectives made inquiries at the Patrson mills, but could find no trace of the woman. The clew connecting her with New* burg, N. V., also came to nothing. Police Seek Motive The police are searching for a motive for the alleged kidnaping, as the Minkins are not wealthy. Xo definite information of the nurse and baby has been received by the police or search since they were seen abortlv after 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon on a local street car. At that time neighbors of the Mink ins talked with the baby, who said he was going to Xew York. A ticket seller at the union station he*:* remembers selling a ticker to a woman answering the nurse’s and scription, the destination being Xew York. Reports received by the police and detective departments have been put into operation at the personal request of Governor Smith and Mayor Hackett of this city has offeicd a reward of SI,OOO for information leading to the return of the child. NEW BACK IN CAPITAL Three-day Visit of Cabinet Member Here Is Ended. Harry S. New, Postmaster General, Is in Washington today after a threeday visit here. “They can talk about political honors all they want, but I would rather have the good will of my neighbors and lifelong friends as a citizen and a Hoosier,” New said to the Optimist Club at the Claypool Friday. He said prosperity has come under the present Administration. Set Road Bond Hearings Hearings before W. P. Adams, special representative of the State tax board, will be held Friday on a $52,000 road bond issue for Greene County, a.nd a $63,000 similar issue from Gibson County the following Monday. THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is mostly cloudy tonight with temperature 30 to 35 degrees. Sunday probably showers and warmer. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 32 10 a. m 33 7 a. m 32 11 a. in 33 8 a. m 32 12 (noon) 36 9 a. m 32

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Linguist! Despite his testimony, translated by his 9-year-old son from Serbian into perfect English, that his wife bought the liquor found by police in a raid Feb. 5, Frank Rotar, Sr., 2130 W. St. Clair St., today was fined $lO and costs in city court on a blind tiger charge. The lad told Judge Wilmeth he was in the 4 A grade. CITIZENS TO FORM LEAGUE FOR FIGHT 1 LAWBREAKERS Meeting of West Indianapolis People Callecf for Sunday Afternoon, Bootjeggers, gamblers and other law violators are. going to find West Indianapolis treacherous territory, according to plans of men and women who are forming a Good Citizens’ League. A meeting will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Friends’ Church. Lambert and Lee Sts., to effect organization. The Rev Henry McKinley is pastor of this church. The organization plans to hire detectives to investigate and later to report to the poliee or State officers, members said. Charges that police have failed to make arrests In flagrant cases of law violation were made today. Almost ail the churches in West Indianapolis are backing the movement, it is said. At a preliminary meeting last Sunday at the Blaine Ave. M. E. Church, more than 500 men were present. “We are going to enforce the law, by lawful methods,” one man s;iid today. BAGLIN SENTENCED ie PRISON TERM Receives 2 to 14 Years for Grand Larceny, After pleading guilty in Criminal Court today fco a charge of grand larceny Charles Baglin, arrested Dec. 20, 1922 when he seized a bag of money containing $2,390 from an employe of the S. S. Kresge & Cos., five and ten-cent store, was given a sentence of two to fourteen years In the State Reformatory. Judge .Tames A. Collins also fined Baglin, $1 and costs. Baglin is 17 years old. He was captured by a police sergeant near Illinois and Maryland Sts., after a chase by Thomas Hawkins, the employe, who was making the rounds of the cash registers collecting Christmas sale receipts. Baglin fireel several times with a revolver after getting the money. ■ ‘RED TAPE AND HARDBOILED TACTICS GO’ New Veterans’ Bureau I lead I -ays Down Law. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 10.—Brig- I adier General Hines, director of the Veterans’ Bureau, today ruled that “hard-boiled tactics and red tape must go” from th“ bureau. “Any official in the bureau found guilty of hard-boiled tactics gets out,” Hines declared. ‘LET DESTROYERS CHASE RUM FLEET’ SUGGESTED Church Board Demands U. S. Use Warships in Bound Up. Btl United Press WASHINGTON, March 10.—Demand that the United States use deI stroyers to round up the “rum fleet” reported ofT the port of New York was made today by the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. AIR RACE NEEDS MONEY City Must Raise S 10,000 to National Event. Before Indianapolis would be considered for the national balloon race ,to be held early in June she must be ready to put up SIO,OOO for prizes and other expenses, according to Harry Cross, president of the Indianapolis Aero Flub. Cross said the club has tile matter under consideration. The race will he to- choose three ! representatives and three alternates to the race for the James Gordon Bennett trophy, in Belgium, next September.

—LLOYD GEORGE ON RUHR TODAY FRANCE. IN PLIGHT, TURNS BACK ON U. S.

“Husband Has Too Many Ladies;” Divorced Bride Yearns for France \ ilm. k \ & '4 " "TIP JUT A ROGER

Married at 36. Margot Juli Roger, 20, of 1006 N. Illinois St., today narrated her experiences of four eventful years as a French war bride. The romance terminated In a riovorce granted in Superior Court here. "My husband —he had too many American lady friends,” she explained. She studied English in a college in "Farce” before she met Alex under Hudson, an Indianapolis youth, stationed as a military policeman in her home town, Sefles Keher. Hudson now is h street car conductor on the College Ave. line.

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Tliey were married July TO, 1919. John C. Ruekelshaus, attorney, told the court Margot will go back to Franco as soon as she earns sttf (blent money as cook In a restaurant. “Here is what he left me for,” the war bride said In court. “1 don’t see how he could,” she added as sic- exhibited pictures of half a dozen co-respondents. Miss Rogers said she finds Americans. except her former husband and his “lady friends," agreeable people, but she yearns for the nome of her father. He is a French gov : eminent employe.

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Former British Premier Says America and Great Britain Are Left in Cold on Paris’ Plans Through 'Unwholesome Mixture of Greed and Arrogance, By THE RIC-HT HONORABLE DAVID LLOYD GEORGE. (Former British Premier) Copyright 1923. by t ruled Feature Syndicate Copyright in Great Britain by London Chronicle Kxelualve. World flights Held by United Feature Syndicate. Keproduetion n. Whole or in Part Prohibited. LONDON, March 10.—When you have walked some (lis.j tance into a quicksand and are sinking deeper and deeper with every step you take, it is always difficult to decide whether you are morely likely to reach firm ground by pressing forward or by going backward. You must do one or the other. You cannot just stand fast, for that is inevitable destruction. The French government clearly is of the opinion that safety lies in marching farther into the quagmire. .SO THREE MORE GERMAN CITIES HAVE BEEN OCCUPIED, MORE ItI.'ROOMASTERS AM) OFFICIALS EXPELLED, MOKE MEN AND BOYS SHOT IX THE STREETS, MORE BLACK TROOPS IMPORTED, MORE REGULATIONS AND MORE DECREES ISSUED; there are more depressions of French. Belgian and Italian exchanges, more confusion in everybody 's business in centra! Europe—in a sentence, everywhere there is more quaking. Had it not been for this fatuous invasion. France would, during the past six or seven weeks, have already received from the Ruhr nearly 3,000,000 t<ns in coal and in coke. The total shortage as compared with the promises of Spa was only eight per cent. OUTPI T V RAX('E has actually received .’>o,ooo tons dur- ( A USES M ing the whole of this period. A swarm of RIDK lEh X engineers, raiiwaymen, bargemen, officials of all kinds and hotel waiters, supported by a formidable army of nearly l .*>o,ooo men, have in six weeks produced this ridiculons output. No doubt the amount will later on be increased by further pressure and In pouring in more railway men, but it will be a long time before France receives her Spa quota minus eight per cent, and then there will be some months’ arrears to make up. No wonder that M. Loueheur stated flatly in the French Chamber that he did not approve of the Ruhr enterprise. lie has one distinct advantage over the Ruhr plungers—lie does know something about business. He can boast also of another gift, possession of which is not without significance when you consider his present attitude. lie is an admirable judge of tomorrow’s weather. That is a rare endowment amongst politicians. Any simpleton can tell you which way the wind is blowing today, but it requires a man of special insight duel experience in these matters to forecast the direction of the wind tomorrow 7 . M. Loueheur is one of those exceptionally well equipped weather prophets. So he satisfies the opinion of today by giving his support to M. Poincare, and he safeguards his position against flic morrow’s change by stating clearly that he docs not approve the policy he supports. COURAGE, W have read no declaration from any French LOYALTY; 3 statesman of eminence—with the doubtful BLOOD? X exception of M. Barthou—indicating belief in the wisdom of the venture. And yet French courage, French pride, French loyalty, French patriotism—and maybe French blood and treasure —are committed irretrievably to a reckless gamble which most of the responsible statesmen who led France by their wisdom through her great troubles regard with doubt, anxiety and apprehension. Will the French government try to extricate themselves from the difficulties into which they have precipitated their country and Europe? I fear not. Heecllessness rushes a man (Continued on Page 3)

ALLEGED EMBEZZLER HELD IN ST. LOUIS Man Indicted on Charge of Taking $95,000 From Cleveland Firms. By United Pern* ST. LOUIS, March 10. —George J. J. McKay, 42, was held today for authorities of Cleveland where indictments have been returned against him charging embezzlement of $95,000 from two Cleveland firms. McKay was indicted on charges of embezzling $75,000 from the Middle States Discount Company and $20,000 from the Born Steel Range Company. ORVILLE BADGER GUILTY Man Found Here Convicted of Murder in Michigan. A telegram from Renton Harbor, Mich., received today by Sheriff George Snider, stated that Orville Badger alias “John Jones,” formerlyheld here on charges In Federal Court of violating the narcotic law, had been convicted of first degree murder. He was accused of killing his business partner, throwing the body into Lake Michigan. Snider recognized Badger from a picture from Benton Harbor as the man wanted there while he was held here by Federal authorities.

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MOTHER AND BABE DIE WHEN STILL EXPLODES i Blast Wrecked Attic of Home and Fired Woman’s Clothing. By United Press CLEVELAND, March 10.—A mother and her 9-tnonths-old baby died early today from injuries when a fifty-gallon moonshine still exploded in the attic of their home. Mrs. Josephine Bordonaro, 30, was watching tho still while she rocked her baby. Her husband, Louis, was downstairs. The explosion wrecked the attic and sot fire to the clothing of Mrs. Bordonaro and her baby. SCiPIO’S RECORD STUDIED Collins Gives Him S2OO Fine and SixtyDays on Farm. Upon reading the city court record of Scipio Williams, colored, 7C5 Indiana Ave., Judga James A. Collins, Criminal Court, gfcve him a fine of S2OO and costs and sixty- days on the Indiana State Farm for violating the prohibition law. Williams has been tried six times in city court since Feb. 6, 1922 on charges of violating liquor laws, and was found guilty twice.

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Fefuses to Formally Receive Bill Passed on Last Day of Legislature—Believes Measure Unconstitutional and People Not Ready for It, Governor McCray killed the bonus bill today, lie refused formally to accept the bill from the Legislature, iThis is known as a “pocket veto” and prevents the measure from i becoming effective. The Governor has this power over bills received during the last two days of the session. The bonus was among those bills.

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MOTHERS WARNED 18 WATCH RES Parent of Girl Hurt in Explosion Gives Advice, Warning Indianapolis mothers to i keep their children away from any possible chances of fmrns or scalds, Mrs. Ora Coy, 510 Birch Ave., Is happy that her girl. Lenora, 10, is recovering frorr. burns suffered by explosion of the kitchen stove. Lenort probably owes her life to the quick thinking of her sister, Florence, who rushed to her aid. Today, Mrs. Coy was eager to advise: | “Mothers! Be careful. Don’t allow matches to be placed where children can play with them. Watch your children constantly. Keep them away from open fires or stoves. Keep kerosene and gasoline out of their reach. “My experience has made mo realize the every day dangers children face In tho home. No mother can afford to be too careful of fire when children are around.” Lenore was attempting to start a fire with kerosene. Live coals were ignited. The flames leaped high. The giri's hair was d. Her sister dragged Lenore to sdfety. Mrs. Coy was upstairs. ‘FEVER WOMAN’ GROWS WEAKER; LOSES APPETITE Physicians Report Temperature 115 j and Pulse of 120. By United Press ESC ANA BA, Mich., March 10. —Miss Eva Lyons, suffering from a fevtr of more than 114 for more than three weeks, was considerably- weaker today and appeared to be losing her appetite. She ate only a little broth. Physicians reported her temperature at 115 and pulse 120 today.

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The Governor said: “In exercising my constitutional privilege, I have refused to accept the bonus bill for the following reasons: Economic Question “1. This is primarily an economic question. I am certain the people of Indiana are in no mood, or in any financial condition, to stand the burden of taxation that would fie imposed to take care of the $20,000,000 to $25,000,000 that would have to be raised to meet the obligations provided for in this act. “Second: I seriously doubt the constitutionality of the act. Section 25, Article 1, of the State constitution expressly says: ’No law shall be passed, the taking effect of which shall be made to depend upon any authority except as provided in the constitution.’ ” “I don't think, therefore, that It is competent for the legislative body to provide for the taking effect of a statutory enactment upon the contingency of the approval of a majority of the electors at a general election.

Election Inadvisable “In view of these facts, I think it inadvisable to incur the expense and suffer the turmoil and strife that would be engendered in presenting the matter to the voters, which after all might not amount to anything in the final analysis of the questions. “3. The proposed act calls for a referendum, which is not recognized by the constitution and becomes effective without additional legislations. This is p jrelv a legislative matter, hence, why not let the Legislature decide the question as it is empowered to do? “Fourth —The proposed hill is not a measure for the injured or needy, hut a general bill, a large part of which would go to men who are not asking for it and who placed their patriotism above any money consideration. “The amount each would receive would in my opinion afford but little lasting good to any of its beneficiaries and yet would add greatly increased burdens to our taxpayers. Should Be Federal Matter “5. Our soldiers of ail our wars were Federal soldiers and should he dealt with by our Federal Government. To my mind there should he no discrimination in the treatment of these men and this, therefore, should he a Federal matter. There is lnile doubt but the next Congress will take up the bonuV* question and I believe we should let the matter rest at this time, pending the action of Congress, which convenes over a year in advance of the Indiana Legislature. Should Congress not take this action. then the next Assembly could give the matter consideration, which is almost as soon as positive action could he taken in any event.” The bill provided that veterans of the World War and of the SparishAmerican war should receive $lO for each month they were in the service, to a maxiumn of $250. Called for Referendum The hill was to have gone to a referendum in 1924 and. if approved by the voters, to become effective in 1927. The money was to have bjen raised by a property tax and a poll tax. Attorney General U. S. Lesh had advised that the bill be signed. The bonus was sponsored originally by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and by members of the American Legion. It was introduced in the House early in the session and passed without much difficulty. In the finance committee of the Senate the measure was held up until several demands were made that it be reported out on the floor. When it was finally forced out it was passed by a email margin. THUG SURPRISES BARBER Bobltcry Attempt of Thief Concealed in Automobile Fails. An unidentified assailant failed in an attempt to rob, but succeeded in escaping after an attack on Roy Fowler, 130 Herman St., Friday night, according to police today. Fowler told the police that he had his ear parked in front of his barber shop at 549 E. “Washington St., and, after closing, took the day’s receipts and drove home. When he stopped, the man. concealed in the rear seat, struck him over the head with a blunt instrument, but failed to fell him. In the tussle that followed the man freed himself and ran. ALLEGED REDS GIVE SELVES UP TO POLICE Arrests Were Ordered in Connection With Bridgeman Raid. By United Pres* ST. JOSEPH, Mich.. March 10.— Rose Pastor Stokes and nine others whose arrests were ordered in connection with the raid on the Bridgeman communist convention last fall surrendered to authorities today.