Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1923 — Page 2

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FARMERS ASKING AID FROM WAR FINANCE CORPORATION

PERU RESIDENTS SPLIT ON FLOOD PREVENTION PLAN Court Actions Will Be Called for Heading This Week — Civic Clubs Take Hand,

i?y United Press PERU, March 13. —With the Legislature adjourned, people of Peru are starting to work in earnest on flood prevention plans that have been in process of formulation since the disastrous Hood of During the legislative session a bill was introduced at the request of opponents of flood prevention to repeal a special measure enacted two years ago granting power to organize a flood district and build flood walls with the proceeds of tax levies, to be distributed over a period of thirty years. The Legislature refused to pass this bill. The situation has been pending in the civil courts. Hearings are set for this week on the legal and engineering phases of the problem, and all Peru is awaiting the outcome of the case. The sentiment of business and manufacturing interests is that the town will not prosper as long as there is any threat of flood damage. Factories will not come here, they say, unless the homes of the workers can be protected against high waters. Among the leaders in the group advocating flood prevention are Mark P. Boone, president of the Rotary Club; John W. Bossard. of the Kiwanis Club, and Harrv B. Fox, head of the manufacturer's' organization. Hoosier Briefs LEBANON—The Elks’ lodge has purchased the J. C. Brown property, one block from the public square, as a site for anew home. WABASH Xot a person under forty years of age was buried in the local cemetery during the past month. The average age was sixty-nine. DUNKIRK—The wife and two children of Walter Coons have died during the past week of pneumonia. Coons is in a serious condition. GARY—Garbage men are bidding high for the privilege of carting away refuse following a boost in prices for bottles by bootleggers. SOUTH BEXD —Twenty-eight bars in soft drink parlors have been pounded to kindling by Police Chief Lane and his axe-wi aiding squad for illegal sale of intoxic&Ung liquor. FRAXKLTX —The ideal co-ed is democratic, friendly, neat, religious and, above all. lively, according to essays written by six college men for the V. W. C. A. at Franklin College. ENGLISH—“That cow looks so contented I hate to move her,” said Lewis Owen to James H. Clay after he had purchased the animal. "Let's trade farms and you won't have to," Clay responded. They did.

WABASH—Mrs. Abigail Thorne, 98, known as the second mother of Thomas R. Marshal, ex-vice President, ;g dead. Mr. Marshall spent much of bis time in his boyhood days at the home of Thorne. V E E D ERSBT'RG Congressman Fred S. Purnell of the Ninth district, has recommended his father for postmaster. LAFAYETTE—Every one attending the "Sweater-Hop." so he giver, by the co-eds of Purdue for their athleic fund, must wear a sweater to be allowed on the floor. WARSAW—-Horse-drawn vehicles have supplanted motor busses foi* hauling school children, due to the Impassable condition of the roads. MUNCIE—A banker says *hat more people buy German marks for the thrill of watching them rise and fall, than for actual profit. LAFAYETTE—Professors E. G. Martin and R. H. Carr have completed a text book. “Quantitative Agricultural Analysis.” LIQUOR POISONS BOY Police Seek Identity of Ijad Found in Station. Bu Times Special HAMMOND. Ind.. March 13.—Police are seeking the identity of a 10 yearold boy in knee trousers who was found unconscious in the South Shore Station last night, suffering from moonshine poisoning. He was removed to a hospital where a pint of moonshine was removed from his stomach.

Meetings Here Wednesday Sahara Grotto —Meeting, Denison. Associated Employees of Beech Grove —Meeting, Denison Lions’ Club—Luncheon. Lincoln. Delta Upsilon—Luncheon. Lincoln. Kiwanis Club—Luncheon. Claypool. Officers cf American Legion— Luncheon, Spink-Arms. Second Presbyterian Church— Luncheon. Board of Trade Sigma Xu—Luncheon. Board of Trade. ' Indianapolis Real Estate Board —Luncheon, C. of C. Wednesday Club of the First Presbyterian Church—Luncheon, <2. of C. ' Purdue Alumni Association— Luncheon, Severin.

Uncle Sam Deals Sternly With Men Who Defy Him; Prisoners, Atlanta-Bound, Admit Their Mistake

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‘‘lt’s poor business to play fast and loose with Uncle Sam," said a dejeoted-looking youth, as he lifted a handcuffed hand to his face to avoid a photographer. And he undoubtedly expressed the sentiments of twenty-two others as the line of closely-guarded Federal prisoners slowly moved from the Marion Cour ty jail toward the Union Sta-

LOCAL DEATH TOLL EXCEEDS U. S. RATE

The Indianapolis death rate for organic disease, tuberculosis and cancer in the last ten years exceeds the average in the United States, according to a report to the public health committee of the Chamber of Commerce by a subcommittee headed by Dr. A. G. Long today. The average annual rate here of tuberculosis deaths for each 100,000 population was 180.8, while the aver age for the country was 142.0. The rate here for white people is 150.3, but this is pu’led up by the high col- j ored rate of ',12.5.

PLEASANT VISION RUDELY SHAnERED Gallavantiir Hubby ’Caught Up With by Vengeful Wife, IBu United Press CHICAGO, March 13.—“ Come and i meet me at once, honey dear.” was j the message Gladys Hight, society I dancing instructor, sent to John Wineke in Cleveland. Wineke. who disappeared after a three weeks’ honeymoon with Miss Hight. with visions of a reconciliation. stepped from a train from Cleveland. As he stopped to kiss his bride, three detectives who Miss Hight had ' brought to the station arrested Wi- ! neke, while a bailiff handed nim a j divorce suit summons. Miss Hight charged her husband i financed their honqymoon with tn>r money and cashed more than SI,OOO ! worth of spurious checks. RE-ALLOCATION OF RADIO WAVES TO BE DEVISED Public Hearing Will Be lI,Id March 21, Hoover Advises. Bu Unitrd Press WASHINGTON, March 13.—A public hearing to devise means of reallocation of radio wave lengths will be held at the Department of Commerce next week. Secretary Hoover announced todu> that those interested in the revisions of the present wave length tabic will be heard at 10 a. in., on March 21, and on this testimony the new table will be drawn up. FOUR SEEK BANKRUPTCY Housewife Says Her Helds Total $2,000.18 —No Assets. Four voluntary petitions in bank \ ruptcy were filed in Federal Court to!day by: Ernest J. Banks, laborer. Wabash, liabilities $1,298.05; assets, $521. Grace L. Daley, housewife, Fowler, liabilities $2,900.18; no assets. Charles Jarrett, farmer, Sharps ville, liabilities $5,572.50; assets $223. George I. Dukes, fanner, Clinton, liabilities $2,583; assets $2,265. Y. P. C.S AT NEWCASTLE

St. Anthony’s Fire to Play Return Game Tonight. The St. Anthony’s T. P. C. basketball team will tourney to Newcastle for a game with the Newcastle Knights of Columbus tonight. The Y. P .C.s defeated the Newcastle team earlier in the season. This is the only defeat Newcastle has suffered this year and they will be out to even things up. The Y. P. C. Juniors, who will also make the trip are scheduled to take on the fast St. Ann’s Boys Club. Congressman Names Aid By Times Special LOGANSPORT. Ir.d„ March 13. Representative Samuel E. Cook of HtAtington, has named George W. Cliß' of Royal Center, his secretary. Cook is employed in Vthe Weather -ELUJfiaU—al_ Washington.

tion. The men were ltoiind for Atlanta. Ga., where they will serve sentences imposed in Federal Court by Judge Albert B. Anderson’. From all walks of life they came, young men and old, bank employes and bootleggers, motor car thieves and postoffice robbers, men convicted of a wide range of Federal of-

A committee headed by Homer W. | Borst, made a preliminary report to the public health committee Monday, and was directed to make a detailed report on what can be done for child wel j fare here. M. A. Auerbach, secretary of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association, Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the , city board of health, and Dr. W. F. ; King, secretary of the State board of l health, spoke in favor of an energetic camj>aign of education to advance I health conditions.

JURY WORKS FAST Auto Bandit Is Found Guilty in Seventeen Minutes. fly United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind„ March 13 It t6ok a Vigo County "murder jury” which had tried six murder cases but seventeen minutes to find Eddie Wilde of Cleveland. Ohio, ex-convict ar.d gangster, guilty of auto banditry. He was sentenced to twenty-live years In the State reformatory. Wilde, with Dan O'Conner, Steve Furtyo and Frank Kantak, all of Ohio, are alleged to have attacked nn 18-year-old school girl and robbed her of a wrist watch, ring and money. The others will be tried separately this week. NORTHERN INDIANA RECOVERS No I<oss of Life Reported in Vicinity of Ft. Wayne, Bu Unit'd Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 13.—Ft. Wayne and Northern Indiana was recovering today from the disastrous rain and wind storm which swept this and early Monday. No loss of life was | reported. Traction companies reported cars running *>n schedule today. Nine hundred telephone lines were down in Ft. Wayne. BODIES ARE RECOVERED Sevenieen Tennessee Storm Victims \te Identified. ! /?;/ f nitl and Pres JACKSON, Miss., March 13.—Res cue workers digging into the wrecked 'own of Pinson, leveled by the cy clone Sunday night, believed today they had recovered the bodies of all the victims. Seventeen bodies received here from Pinson and the surrounding country had been identified. Hospitals were filled with the injured, a Wow of whom may die as a result of exposure.

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senses. in the line were T. Dale Spahr, admitted bank defaulter; Oscar 11. it (.. I rnd Harry Kabinowitz, convicted of conspiracy to violate bankruptcy laws, all of Indianapolis, and Heber Alton Beeson, formerly bank cashier of Columbia City, convicted of conspiracy to violate the national motor vehicle act.

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Bloc'Leaders Declare Rural Population Uneasy Because Rural Credit Law s Do Not Become Operative for Some Time,

flj/ United Press WASHINGTON, March 13. —A plea for continued financial assistance by the war finance corporation to farmers in the production and marketing of crops was made today by a delegation of senators, congressmen and farm organization representatives who called on Frank W. Mondell, new director of the corporation. Senator Capper, Kansas, farm bloc leader, who led the delegation , declared that farmers through the National were uneasy regarding future operations of the war finance corporation in view

JURY PANEL IN RADICAL TRIAL CLOSELY WEEDED Three Women and Seven Men Tentatively Accepted, Bu United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 13. | The jury to try William Foster, alleged radical, arrested in connection with the raid on the communist convention last fall, neared completion today. Both sides attempted to weed out ! jurors who may have l>een influenced by propaganda, wit h which Berrian j County has lx;en flooded. Three women and seven men were 1 tentatively accepted by both sides when court convened. "We are willing to put our case into | the hands of either men or women as long as they enter the jury box unbiased by propaganda,” Frank P. Walsh, defense attorney declared. Walsh confined his examination of jurors to two main questions: 1. Did you read or hear a speech of Allen O. Myers. Burns detective, before the Rotary Club at Benton Harbor. assailing radical organizations. 2. Are you a Republican, and, if so, did you attend a recent State Republican meeting at which radicalism was bitterly attacked? NURSES HEAR ADDRESS Miss Elizabeth Cowan Speaks at State Meeting. Miss Elizabeth Cowan of the Fletcher Savings & Trust Company, ad dressed members of the State Nurse-’ Association on "Thrift and Budget," today at the Woman's Department Club.

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of the farm credit measures passed by the last Congress. These bills will not become operative for some time. Capper said, and in the meantime farmers must rely on aid from the corporation. A liberal policy must be adopted by the corporation to safeguard regular and orderly marketing of farm products, the Senator said. Senator Ladd, North Dakota, declared letters were pouring into his office from farmers who wished to ascertain; What assistance the corporation would give in the exportation of surplus farm products? Why large advances to cooperative organizations were approved while the actual money loaned was so small? What security will be demanded by the new’ Administration. TRIPLE QUIZ STARTED Investigation of Foreign Combinations Will Get Under Way. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 13.—A triple industry into foreign combinations , dominating the rubber, nitrate and fiber importations into the United States will be started shortly by the Department of Commerce, Secretary i of Commerce Hoover anounced today. From this inquiry it is expected ! corrective legislation will be sugI gested to the next Congress for the protection of American consumers. CUBAN SUGAR IS PROBED Hoover lio|>cd to Unjust. Bu Unitrd Press WASHINGTON. March 13—Agents of tl.e Department of Commerce in Cuba are making a preliminary investigation of the -sugar combination in that country to determine how they affect sugar prices in the United States, it was made known today. Secretary of Commerce Hoover hopes to determ ne front this inquiry whether the increased sugar prices hero are unjust and whether a final official investigation shall he made. For Colds, Grip or Influenza and as a Preventive, take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets. The box bears the signature of E. W. Grove. (Be sure you get BROMO.) 30c.—Advertisement.

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Says Other Woman Lived With Hubby

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Mrs. Leota Bridges, 40. of 1523 Ashland Ave., (above) charges in juvenile court that Mrs. Effie M. Welch. 41. of 2041 Hovey St., (below) lived with Thomas Bridges while he still was living with her, (Mrs. Bridges*. It is charged Bridges led Mrs. Welch to believe he was divorced. Heir to .3..000 LOGAXSPORT. Ind.. March 13. John Kelley, assistant chief operator of the Illinois District Tedephone Comrany and former messenger, is heir to $35,000 left by Samuel Wadsworth, Elieno, Okla. Kelley and Wadsworth became friends in Chicago. The will of (he jotter said he had no relatives and left everything to Kellev.

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1923.

CHARGES AGAINST MUNCIE MEN FAIL TO EXCITE CITY Accused Officials Say Attack Is Result cf Strict Law Enforcement, Bu United press MUNCIE, Ind., March 13.—Muncie in the last few years has grown so accustomed to investigations, charges and trials of its public officials that the latest, the action filed at Indianapolis by John Fox and Ida Holcomb, charging police officials and politicians with perversion of office and failure to uphold the law, has thus far caused only a mild ripple of excitement. It Was common knowledge that Federal officials were in the city investigating alleged unlawful conditions here and gossip had long mentioned a number of prominent officials as .being under investigation. The concensus of opinion is that the charges filed Monday were only the forerunner of , possible Federal action. " The several officials and politicians named in the complaint discussed the action freely but all declared they would be able to vindicate themselves when the time comes. Harry Hoffman, sheriff, who learned of the charges first when the United Press story was read to him Monday, expected to be arrested at once and said that he would be able to give bond. Chief of Police Van Benbow, refused to discuss the case and appeared to regret the publicity given it. Ira Koons, day police captain, asserted the charges were dimply an attempt to "get even” for the rigid law enforcement program now being exercised in Muncie. John Hampton, Republican city chairman, declared the charges, so far as his knowledge went, were without foundation. Van Ogle, county prosecutor, refrained from making any statement and “Billy” Williams, county Republican chairman could not be found to be interviewed. SOWDER TO READ PAPER Indianapolis Medical Society Will Meet Tonight. Dr. Charles R. Sowder, chairman of the legislative committee of' the Indianapolis Medical Society, will read a paper on “Medical Legislation If Passed and Its Future” at a meeting of the society at the Indiana College tonight. Motion pictures connection -with the American Medical Association convention will be shown.