Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1923 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1923.

GIRL PICTURED AS •‘LURE 1 FOR YOUTH IN BANK ROBBERY % Mother, on Trial, Weeps as Letters to Confessed Thief Are Read, How Cecil “Blondy” Johnson. 17, self-confessed participant in the robbery of 545.000 in bonds from the Alert State Bank, Alert. I ml., last May, and also self-confessed participant in twenty-seven other crimes, is purported to hav ebeen held in allegiance by Mrs. Mamie Isley through his love for her 16-year-old daughter, Opal, was revealed by Deputy Prosecutor William P. Remy today. Remy read letters purporting to have been written by Mrs. Isley, on trial in Criminal Court as the "brains” of six conspirators, s-iid b ythe State to have made headquarters at her farm home east of Indianapolis on the Brookville road, to Johnson while he was in jail. A class of Short ridge students of sociology was warned to leave the room before he started. They withdrew. P Defendant Weep-, Mrs. I-Uy wept ■ s Rein; read the 1* tiers, offering Joitnson her daughter when he finished his "tt ip,,” if he would come back. "Please, your honor, we object to this,” said Frank A. Symmes. attorney for Mrs. Isley. “She is not or trial for contributing to the delinquency of her daugter.” Remy offered the leters.t given him by Johnson, who turned State’s evidence, to refute on cross-examina-tion, the defendant's statement that she atemptrd to have nothing more to do with Johnson and his pal. De Witt Parker, after they told her in '< t'ne summer they had robbed the bank, j Mrs. Isley admitted that she and | Opal both visited Johnson at the j jail, hired attorneys for him and wrote him letters. Opal, later, was j arrested for attempting to smuggle j hack-saws to Johnson. "Gun School" Charged “For the last year, wasn’t it a fact i that you and A1 Isley ran a resort for criminals at your farm?.. Remy asked Mrs. Isley. The court did not allow her to answer, on objection of her attorney. "Didn't you have a shooting gallery out there?” Objection again was sustained. Remy said, in his opening statement, that Mrs. Isley maintained a “school for young gunmen on her farm, holding practice every day at sunset.” “How many persons known to you been burglars, robbers, auto Hheves and safe-biowers ame out there?” she was asked. This question also was ruled out on grounds of not being material. The trial has lasted six days.

11$. WYNN TO BE BURIED AT ALERT Was Resident of This City for Twenty-Four Years, Funeral services for Mrs. Mary S. Wynn, 67, who died Tuesday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. J. S. Milligan. 44 S. Bolton Ave., will be held Thursday at f*:3o a. m. at the Milligan home. The body will be removed to Alert, Ind.. where services will be held In the Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Alert Cemetery. Mrs. Wynn had been a resident of Indianapolis for about twenty-four years. She was a member of the Irvington Methodist Episcopal Church. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. D. G. Clapp Scipio, Ind.; Mrs. Harry Meredith, and Mrs. Milligan, of Indianapolis, and a son, John Wynn, of Madison, Ind. DEPOSITORIES BEING SELECTED Officials Hope to Complete List Late Today, Clerical work in connection with 'ormation of the list of new depositories for Indiana State funds, in.luuing the institutional funds, will be completed late today, Robert Bracken. State auditor, said. Ben Urbahns, deputy State treasurer, and Carl Cue, deputy auditor, are expected to have the list ready for final action this afternoon. Announcement of the new depositories and the maximum amount of State money they may receive will follow approval of the list by the State finance hoard, which is composed of Governor McCray, Bracken, ■md Ora Davies, State treasurer. The new deposits. Bracken said, would total approximately $6,000,0011. SHIPLEY RITES ARE HELD Former Resident of Indianapolis Dead A at Age of 8?. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Shipley, age 82, a former resident of Indianapolis, who died March 6. in Silver City, New Mexico, were held at the funeral parlors of William E. Krieger, 1302 N. Illinois St., at 2 p. in. today. Burial was in Crown Hill. She was the widow of .Tames G. Shipley, a former resident of Indianapolie. Surviving are a son James Shipley and a daughter. Mrs. C. W. Merriott, both of Silver City. New Mexico.

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LEFT TO JiltitiT: *MISS MYRTLE WIXGERT, 2725 X. MERIDIAN "ST.; MRS. JEAX S. WHITE. APARTMENT 1-’. DOLLY MADISON APARTMENTS; MISS SARA Iv. WADE, 2468 COLLEGE AYE.; MISS LUCILLE VALE , 2317 ASHLAND AVE.; MRS. GURNEY HILL, 1416 BELLKFONTAINE ST.; MRS. ESTELLA M. BAKER.

MOW EDITOR HELD GUILTY OF COURTCONTEMPT Sentenced to Jail, Fined SSOO —Fight on Klan Is Cause, Bv United Press MUNCIE, Ind.. March 14 —George Dale, eidtor of the Muncie Post Demo crat, a weekly publication, who recently in an article in his publication, accused the Circuit Court judge, sheriff, prosecutor and members of the giand and perit juries of being members of the Ku-Klux Klan and of 1 eing unduly influenced by the klan, was d*, Jared guiltv of contempt of court by Judge Clarence Dearth in Circuit Court this morning. The maximum sentence of a S6OO fine and ninety days in jail was given him. After Dale had been sent to jail the \ court announced that, while the ap real bond of $2,500 was ready, he would be unable to act on it until later in the day and Dal<- was ordered kept in custody until afternoon. Dale was referred to by Prosecutor Van Ogle in his speech as “trash" ar.d his paper as a “scandal sheet. When Dale attempted to object ho was told to remain quiet. 0 Judge Dearth declared from the bench it was not the editor's or any one qlse’s business if he or any one connected with tho court was a member of the klan. Dale, who has been fighting the klan for months, will ask an immediate appeal. Hnosier Briefs Bit KNELL —Alleging that Alex ander Itiggate bit him on the cheek and “made him sick and sore." John Ginliano has brought suit for SI,OOO. OWENS VILLE—The Farmers’ Association has leased a movie house and will manage shows BLOOMINGTON —An eight-page pa per edited and written by women of Indiana University will be published May 1. Mary Thornton is editor-in-chief. HARTFORD CITY —Anew $50,000 exchange has been installed by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company.

WARSAW —Church organizations and' junk dealers started early spring housecleanings when they started competitive bidding for “rags, rubber and old iron.”

FRANKLIN —Five new buildings, to cost $750,000, are to obe erected at Franklin College within the next two years. The student enrollment during the past five years has nearly doubled. COBURN —11. A. Coburn, so whom this town was named, is dead fol lowing a short illness. HUNTINGTON —L. H. Jackman is claiming the best laying flock of chickens in Huntington County, with a record of 246 laid by sixteen pullets during the past month. MARION —John Townsend asked Orpheus Anderson, deputy sheriff, to send him to the penal farm for thirty days. His request may bo granted when he comes up for trial on a charge of intoxication. MTTNCIE —To raise funds to carry cn its work, the Visiting Nurse Association will hold a "White Elephant Sale,’’ offering anything householders donate. LAFAYETTE —Purdue University is to hold a citizenship institute last ing a week, during April. It will be under the direction of the history and economics department. VALPARAISO—Jonathon Osborne, who recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday, has not missed a Masonic lodge me'etlng for fifteen years. He has held all the offices In the lodge. AERIAL ACT IS FEATURE Fisher Sisters to Perform in Sahara Circus af Coliseum. One of the chief features of ..no Fahura Society Circus which opens a week’s engagement Monday, March 26, at tlie State Fairground Coliseum will be the Fisher Sisters in their "human butterfly ’ act. Their daril'g aerial stunts have been a feature for several years with the biggest sum mer circuses. More than 3,000 orphans will be guests of the Veiled Prophets at the opening matinee.

SEARCH FOR PRIEST HEADED BY BROTHER Disappearance of Clergyman Still Ra fries Parish Friends. Hu l iitt il Press VIRDEN. ill,. March 14.- An organized search for the Rev. Joint A. Yraniak —"lost priest of Eg. pt”— was led today by Adolph Yraniak, brother of the missing clergyman. Thirty men, members of the Rev. Vranlak’s Slovak Catholic Church, set out In six automobiles to make a thorough search of the highways between Vlrden and St. Louis. INEFFICiENGY IS CHARGED I BELL PHONE OPERATION Engineer Testifies Savings Could Be Effected in Exchange, Survey of several telephone ex changes in central Indiana, owned or controlled by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, could effect substantial savings by the elimination of unnecessary employes, E. L. Cline, president and owner of the Madison Telephone Company, witness before the public service commission said today in its investigation of the Bell company’s rates. Cline, formerly engineer and superintendent of construction for independent telephone properties in Indianapolis, Louisville. Ky„ and Toledo, Ohio, said that at least one operator could be spared at exchanges In Elwood and Shelby ville. Determining his conclusions from estimates of the number of persons employed on an hourly basis, Cline said twenty-six Indiana exchanges could save a total of 662 hours a week, or $0,456 a year. Archibald Allen, traffic engineer on the general staff of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, also was a witness. Frank Furls conducted the examination for the commission. Witnesses for the commission, including Earl L. Carter, chief engineer, are attempting to show the company's appraisement of Its own property is approximately $lO,0000,000 In excess of the actual value. Carter's valuation of $26,120,850, offered Tuesday, based on a period from 1913 to 1922, has been challenged by W. H. Thompson, Bell attorney, on the grounds it was too theoretical.

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Haughty matrons who “slam the door on the assessor’s nose” or taxpayers who refuse to divulge their names mean little to the women pictured above, a few of the fortyseven women deputy assessors now at work in Center Township. "Women .re better assessors than men,” said M. L. Jefferson, Center Township assessor, who lias 165 deputies busy now. “People have been exceptionally kind this year,” said Miss Sarah K. Wade, 2458 Park Ave., who is appraising the family piano and flivver for folks in tho territory bounded by Alabama, Ruckle, Sixteenth and Twenty-First Sts. 'T've had only one man who was hardboiled.” Refuses to Give Name “A colored man wouldn't give me his name. lie said l could find It on the mail box, but there wasn't any mail box. I have gone there

MEDICAL BUILDING PLANS EXAMINED City Commission Asks More Details of Construction, Pending the filing of more detailed plans with the city plan commission a petition by Dr. It. A. Boyd for permission to erect a. doctor’s residence and hospital at College Ave. and Fiftieth St., was held under advisement by the commission today The hospital would contain about fifty-two rooms and be located in the rear of a section of the building now containing apartments for physicians and tleir families. The district Is at present a residence section. Plans for nn apartment building at Twenty-Seventh and Meridian Sts., presented by the Circle City Realty Company, have been disapproved by tho commission because sufficient side yard space was not provided. BASTROP GRAND JURORS WILL QUIT THURSDAY Prolte of Mob Murders Is Practically Complete. ft;/ United Press BASTROP. La., March 14.—Final adjournment tomorrow was tho goal today of grand jurors probing kldnapings and murders In Morehouse parish. , The jury had practically completed Investigation of tho deaths of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards, who were kidnaped by a hooded mob lost, August, and the session today was devoted to Intimidations and misdemeanors In connection with the reign of terror by masked bands In the community.

| three times; I’ll get him yet.” In case of extreme coyness about ! imparting names to strangers, aid j of a. deputy sheriff or policeman is I sought. Tie women every day meet sltuPfions requiring tact. Most of the problems they -clvo tln in •e.K e. sq, ii a- refits \t to : low th- fem iiy piano to be listed. but the "tough” one- are teported ,t, -Mar tin KimmoU, deputy assessor, who receives reports daily. Government “All Graft” Deputies have reported, said Kimmell, that some householders slam the door with the remark that tho “government is all graft, anyway, and we aren’t going to encourage it.” Again assessors are mistaken for j prohibition officers, and their rerep. tlon is anything but warm. One woman said she thought tbs asj seasor “Just wanted the money to i buy booze."

RUSSIA STIRRED BY LENIN ILLNESS 'Dictator' Suffers Relapse and Is Paralyzed. Kv United Press MOSCOW. March 14. All soviet Russia awaits anxiously each day the official bulletin, issued by the government, that tells of the condition of Premier Nikolai Lenin, who li.ls suf sered a serious relapse and is partly paralyzed. Th Russian leader, once referred to as "dictator." but for over a year an extremely sick man, lias been growing weaker since tiie first of December. 1922, an official communique said. The bulletin issued by the physicians at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon lead "Sunday M. Lenin had difficulty with his speech. Today his hand and leg (of which he partly lost the use) r niainod in the same condition, but his speech improved. General condition is satisfactory. Temperature 37.1. pulse 100. working regularly. (Signed) “MINOVHKr, KRAMER, KOSHEVNIKOV, SEMASHKO

L.&N. IS GIVEN AUTHORITY Railroad Will Pay $300,000 for Kentucky Line. P>U Unite,l Press WASHINGTON. March 14—The Louisville ,<• Nashville railroad today asked the Interstate commerce c,linin' ion for authority to purchase the Mark Mountain railroad In Kentucky for "a price of $300,0U0. The latter road is eight and one-half miles long and extends near Mackniont, Ky.

ANTI-SALOON HEAD COMMENTS ON RULING Says Wet lloul of Joy Is Test internal to Dry League. It i>■ ; ,/ Pn ! NEW Yt IKK .Match 11.--William :, Vrtderson. head of he Anti-Saloon League, issued a statement today r>garding the decision l>y Justice Staley classing the Anti-Saloon League i as a political committee. "The howl of joy from the wets j which this deck ion evoked is the fin- | est testimonia. the league has ever had,” he said. “They evidently read into the decision facts which are not there.” ILLINDISASSEMBLY I LAUNCHES HERRIN MASSACRE PROBE Demorats Charge Attorney General With Failure to Prevent Slaughter, Pu l nit-il Press SPRINGFIELD. 111. March 14— A legislative investigation of the Hen in massacre was launched by the Illii nois House <,f Representatives today following heated discussion in which Democratic members condemned AdJUiant General Black and attempted to la> at. his door responsibility for fiub.ii. to prevent the slaughter. ' r.-ier a resolution adopted shortly after noon a House committee of seven in- ini rs. to be named by Speaker Shanahan, will make a thorough Investigation of all the circumstances surrounding the massacre and report , ba, k to tii" House with recommendations. The committee is clothed with power to subpoena witnesses and demand official documents. The demand for the investigation was sprung as a surprise by Representative loge, Democrat, Chicago, ; just as the House was about to take up the consideration of the Senate bill •appropriating $120,000 to the olfico of tho adjutant general to meet a detl-

TRUCK HITS BOY; LEG IS BROKEN Colored Driver Arrested After Accident,

Edward Sexton, 13, of 3425 Graceland Ave., was taken to tho city hospital today, suffering from a fractured leg and head injuries received when he was struck by a truck driven by John Scott, 10. colored. 2305 Fairview Ave., at Thirty-Fourth and Illinois Sts. Edward is the sen of Milton R. Sexton. Seott is said to have turned south on Illinois from Thirty-Fourth St. A street car probably confused the boy, who was on Ills way to school. Scott was charged with improper driving a ndassault and battery. BRITAIN WILL START PAYMENT THURSDAY I First Installment Slightly More Than 84,000,000. ! It a t nitril I'retiS WASHINGTON, March 14.—Great Britain tomorrow is expected by treasury officials to make tho first payment under the war debt funding agreement recently negotiated with the United States. Payment will bo slightly In excess of $4,000,000. U. S. ADMIRAL PROTESTS ACTIONS OF TURKEY Moslems Increase Customs Rato on I American Grain. Hu I'nilril Xeirs CONSTANTINOPLE, March 14. Admiral Mark L. Bristol, American | commander-in-chief In the Near East, I Tuesday dispatched another note to | the Angora National Assembly, pro- ! testing against the increase in customs on American grain exported to Turkey. Tho new r communication follows tho rejection by the Assembly of a similar protest Monday. - Labor Leader Is Head Jlu Tim is Special MARION, Inch, March 14.—Charles Call, labor loader, is dead at his home, o* pneumonia. Ho V,as the father of Audrey Call, violinist.

TWO‘SORE’SOLDI SOUTHWARD BOUND 10 GUILE SHORES Both Senators Vaccinated Before Leaving United States, By HARRY HUNT. NEA StalT Correspondent, ww 7 ASH I NOTON, March 14.—Two “sore” United States ex-sena- ’ “ tors are en route to Santiago, Chile, as members of the American delegation to the tPan - American congress there. They are Atlee 1 Pomerene of Ohio and Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota. When we say “sore” we do not mean mentally tender and touchy over their recent .defeat for re-elee- ' - VO tion. We mean $ actually and physically sore. POFERENE For, following their acceptance of President Harding’s appointmene as representatives at the South American conference, Pomerene and /'■ Kellogg were in- < / . \ formed that the V: L V Chilean health i-t v i aL laws require that V- " s\ all persons enteri*-\ 7 ing the country— M/ - 1 f'' whether visiting \ —shall have been /*/ j r vaccinated. Neith'B 1 /> . j er having pre/A / / viouslv been vaccinated they duly ’T bared their arms to the vaccine KELLOGG point. By time of sailing both cases had “taken” with a vengeance. VT TI TILE Margaret Lindsay Wilyy liams. diminutive Welsh por- ' * trait painter, was executing a painting of the President recently, Mrs. HJrding got ~~ s y anew slant on //* her hus ban d’s A y physiognomy. If 0 "Why, War--he s^d. (T) r - > “I do believe the a \ j two sides of your H r face are not the ' I same!” —// “They aren't,” 'm Harding replied. “One side ~f my \ \ face, I have been €> > told, is that of a \>3 butcher. The other is tliat of v ’ a saint. But \\ lien .1 look in the mirror it is always the saintly side 1 see.”

RUSSIA ACCEPTS OFFER OF LEAGUE Will Consider Extension of Washington Arms Pact. Hii I nitril J’ress MOSCOW, March 14—Russia today accepted an invitation of the League of Nations to participate in a conference of non-signatory states to consider extension of the principles of the Washington arms treaties. The foreign office issued a statement saying Russia continues to consider the league as an association of a few states unwarrantly attempting to usurp the power of other states. “Nevertheless," the foreign office says, "with the object of minimizing the war burden on the world’s i workers, Russia will participate in the proposed conference."

Why and What Is a Barber? Hu [nitril Vries ALBANY, March 14—To the' great: unanswered question “Why is a barber?’’ has been added the no less difficult query of “What Is he?’’ Hairdressers of Now York are opposing a bill by union barbers that defines barbering as fol lows: “To shave or trim the beard or cut the hair or shampoo, massage or singe the hair for hire or reward.” The bill would make hairdressers take out barber*’ licenses.

MUM BREEZES WAFF POLITICAL WHISPERS ABROAD Cox Does Not Deny Intention to Seek Democratic Nomination, /J;/ United Press MIAMI, Fla., March 14.—Miami's balmy breezes wafted presidential booms and rumors as President liar ding’s houseboat parij neared here today. James M. Cox, Democratic nominee of 1920, got full publicity for a statement in which he made no formal announcement of his candidacy, but did not deny he intended to seek the Democratic nomination in 1924. ! William Jennings Bryan is due ; here tomorrow and is expected to call i upon Mr. Harding. Waiting on the dock for the Presi- : dent Were Republican National Corn mitteeman Joe Kea.ling of Indiana, j Dave Mulvane of Kansas and local | Republicans. , The atmosphere was redolent of po- ; iitlcal possibilities and presidential i ambitions for 1924. Some of Mr. Harding’s advisors aboard the houseboat believe the President himself should take the op port unity to let it be known lie will run for ienon>inulion next year if no unforesen circumstance arises. 1 DISCIPLES SCHOOL FUND IS DOUBLED IN TWELVE YEARS Resources Are $16,000,000, R, H, Crossfield Says in Address, Resources of the board of education of the Disciples of Christ have increased from $8,000,000. to $16,000,000 since the founding of the board in 1911, said R. H. Crossfield, president of William "Woods College, Fulton. Mo., .at the annual meeting of the board at the Claypool today. Other speakers; Miner Lee Bates, president of Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio; Thomas Carr Howe, ex-president of Butler University, and H. O. Pritchard. Indianapolis, general secretary of the board of education. Present officers of the board: A. D. Harmon. Lexington, Ky., president; John llepler Wood. Canton, Mo., vice president: W. C. Gibbs, Columbia. Mo., secretary, and Miss Elizabeth T. Gil bert, Indianapolis, treasurer.

moms EARLY GAMING Investigation May Be Unde*' Way Soon. Hearing on operating expenses of the Citizens’ Gas Company may precede completion of the commission's survey‘and valuation of the gas company's property, stud John F. McCar die, chairman, today. Ten men now are at work appraising the property . MeCardle said. From figures ob tained the commission will conduct subsequent hearings. Two or throe months may be required to complete the survey. Order for the survey was issued Monday. The commission is permitted to call the hearing at its own discretion. MeCardle said. DEMOCRAT MAY RULE G. 0. P. HOUSE

Progressive Republicans May Bolt Re-election of Gillette. Hi; l nited V. if* WASHINGTON, March 14.—Possibility of the next House having a I Democratic Speaker despite a slight Republican majority, has developed as H result of the demands of progressive Republicans for more recognition on the important standing) committees which frame legislation affecting taxes, tariff, railroads and agriculture. While not openly asserting that t bay will oppose the re-election of Speaker Gillette, progressives intimate that they may refrain from voting or vote for other candidates. Either course would give the Democrats a majority for the speakership It would be a situation unprecedented in the history of Congress. COUNTY CLERK TO SPEAK The weekly luncheon of the Traffic Club will be held at the Sevesln Thursday. Albert Losche, county clerk, will talk on “Coupling and Un coupling.” Members of the club are requested to attend a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 p. m. Thursday, when J. H. Beck, executive secretary, National Industrial Traffic League. Chicago, will speak on “Shipper's Intertstß and Railroad Transportation. ' Discuss New Laws Application of new laws affecting the Indiana Board of Pharmacy was discussed at a special meeting of the board today in the Staiehouse. The five members of the board, including Lawson Cook of Goodland, ehale man, were present. >.

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