Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1923 — Page 1

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The first exclusive interview eranted by the Frincess Hermine, bride of Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm Hoheiizollern. since her marriage, has been obtained by Ferdinand Jahn, United Press staff correspondent. On this page is the first of a series of three articles, in which the princess, largely in her own words, definitely sets at rest world-wide reports of differences between heself and the ex-etnperor: describes the intimate family home life at Castle Doom; talks on polities and attacks former President Wilson. Information obtained by Jahn during his visit to the ex-kaiser’s household at Doom definitely established the truth regarding reports of an impending “interesting event” in the Hohenzollern family.

wASTE PICTURE!) BY EffilGEß IN PHONE HEARING ————— Attorney and Witness Argue | O w er Figures on Indiana Bell. Estimates of a possible saving of morp than $115,000 annually in oper- ; ttlor of Indianapolis exchanges owned by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company were made today by E. L. Cline of Madison, expert witness for the public service commission in its rate investigation of the Indiana Bell. Cline, owner of the Madison Telephone Company, formerly employed as manager of independent exchanges in Indianapolis. Louisville. Detroit and Toledo, declared that too many operators wore employed in the Indianapolis exchanges on Sundays and tliat by discharging unnecessary operators ~-<>at expenses could b" saved. Quo, I by W. 11. Thompson, attorney - the Indiana Bell, Cline ad->-nltted t. t he had based his calculaions on a straight weekly salary average and had not taken into consideration the extra expense of paying Sunday operators on time-and-a-half basis. Cline further admitted he had not visited any of the Indianapolis exchanges on Sundays. Thompson produced figures tending to disqualify the testimony and figures of Cline. Cline admitted the details of Thompson’s calculations were essentially correct, but refused to acknowledge the results in figures. Cline declined to refigure his savings on invitation of Thompson, after the l.atter had offered figures to show a difference of only SIO,OOO in estimates of the commission and the Indiana Bell, Thompson argued there were numerous errors in Cline’s figures and presented C. R. Woods as a witness for the Bel! to prove the errors. Woods is general traffic superintendent of the Bell. SIGN "FEES " MAY BE CUT Ordinance Drafted to Reduce City license Charge. By an ordinance to be introduced in i the city council, tonight, the license fee on street signs and bill boards ’ would be changed to an inspection i fee. The street sign fee would be $5 i to $25. It now may be as high as SIOO. The bill board fee would be cut from 2 cents to *4 cent a square foot. Hourly Temperature 6 a. m 8 10 a. m 10 7 a. m 8 11 a. m 12 j 8 a. m S 12 (noon) 12 ■ 9 a. m 8 1 p. m 12 1

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By FERDINAND JAHN (Copyright, 192,1, by United Prrss) DOORN, Holland. March 19 The family life of the former German kaiser and his kaiserin at Doom Castle is simple an£ happy. The kaiserin —better known as the Princess Hermine —made that emphatically clear in an exclusive Interview with the United Press. She dissipated emphatically all the chatter that has spread world-wide to the effect that she is leaving Wilhelm or going to Corfu. She made it plain that the ex-emperor and herself are pursuing in happiness and unity the simple life of

NATIQNHELD B WAVE Blizzard Sweeps Country From Rockies to Atlantic Coast, By United Press CHICAGO, March 19.—The entire country from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast was in the grip of a blizzard today. Four persons were killed in Colorado as a result of the storm. Damage to the Kansas potato crop and the Oklahoma peach crop will run into milions. Wire communication was paralyzed in many sections. Telephone and telegraph companies reported miles of pools down. Passenger service on the railroads was curtailed. Freight embargoes weie placed in effect in several sections. Nebraska. Wjoming. Colorado, Wisconsin and lowa advices declared the storm was the most severe In twentyfive years. Snowfall Heav> The gale was accompanied by a heavy fall of snow, swept into mountainous drifts by the wind. Two passenger trains on the Chicago & North western were reported stalled in th* j drifts near Boone and Ames, lowa. Three children of .Allen Evans wero frozen to death In a shanty near Baxter. Colo. Thomas Reed, merchant, I died from exposure near Kutch, Colo.,! when his truck was stalled in the drifting snow. Snow was levc-1 with the housetops at Beulah. Colo. Fire added to the perils >f the storm j in Chicago and Omaha. More Than $250,000 damage was ! done to a business block in the heart of Omaha’s downtown section when fire broke out during the storm. Swept From Northwest The storm swept out of the north west causing temperatures to drop 20 to 50 degrees in a few hours. All railroads running into Chicago from the West reported service sub ject to long delays. Trains leaving Chicago for the West were pulled by two engines. Rockford, ills.. was practically isolated bv the storm. Milwaukee traffic was snow-bound by ten and twelve-foot drifts. Temperatures which were the lowest of the winter were reported from many Missouri points. TUT DISCOVERER ILL OF BLOOD POISONING IJite of Insect Believed Cause of Ailment. By I nil id /'rm LONDON, March 19. —Lord Carnavun, discoverer, with Howard Carter, of the tomb of King Tutankhamen, near Luxor in uppe>- Egypt, is suffer ing from severe blood poisoning be lieved to have been caused by the bite of an insect, according to reports from Cairo. AUTO VICTIM RECOVERING Maurice <J. Moriarit.v Suffers Injuries When Struck By Machine. Maurice J. Mortality. 40, of 306 N. Arsenal Ave., vva3 recovering today at St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he was taken after being struck by an automobile late Saturday. Moriarity was crossing th<* street a - 1441 Marlowe Ave., when he stepped in front of a machine driven by Floyd Ewing, 21, of 336 N. Ramil ton Ave., police said. He was injured about the head. Ewing was held on a technical charge of assault and battery, but was exonerated by witness. BUILDING ON "INCREASE Construction in Indiana During February Was $6,036,000. Construction started in Indiana during February will cost $6,036,000. according to the F. \V. Dodge Corporation. This was an increase of 33 per cent over January and 1 per cent over February of last year. The February total included sl,-: 828,700 for public works and utilities, $1,119,300 for residential buildings, $966,500 for industrial buildings and $841,000 for educational buildings.

studious, active folks, here In bis picturesque, out of the way corner of the wodd. The love of the princess for the former kaiser and the love and respect her children accord their new father was much in evidence during my visit. Explaining a forth coming trip to Germany, the kaiserin said: “At the end of this month, I am going on eight weeks’ visit to Silesia. “You can believe in", it is hard for n*e to leave the emperor alone. “But I am also a mother. And the interests of my children demand my presence in Germany twice a

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DAREDEVIL HOYT ON FLAGPOLE OF CO X S OMDAT E D j BUILDING. Fate of Hana,’ Gardner, the | human fly.’ who fell to his death j in New York recently, has not affected the nerve of William 'Dare devil” Hoyt. 1524 Pleasant. St. "I ex|K*ct every day to meet Gardner In the hereafter so It doesn't make much difference,” add Hoyt with a laugh as he started to ascend the forty foot flag pole on ! top of the Consolidated building to j fix a broken pulley. H<* laughed again as ho swayed in the wind at the top of the pole more than 200 feet above Pennsylvania St. COOPERATIVE bill is BEFORE ILLINOIS BODY: Marketing Measure Has Racking of State Fanil Bloc. Bp l nitfd l’r yn SPRINGFIELD. 111., March 19, The first t-st <>f strength of the farm bloc In the State Senate will come on Wednesday when the cooperative mar-1 ketlng bill comes up In the upper | branch on the order of second reading, j An exetnslve hearing will bo given ■ the bill at that time and some efforts | will be made to amend It. ELOPERS SOUGHT HERE Valparaiso Girl Hunted With Man In Stolen Car. Police here were asked today to help head off a young couple believed to be eloping from Valparaiso in a stolen automobile. Sheriff Pennington of Porter County i said the couple stopped at a farm- j house mar Valparaiso over Sunday! night. The girl, he said, was Bertha! May Marlow, 17, 5 feet 3 inches tall, with black, bobbed hair and black i eyes. The man. he said, was about 23 and heavy-set. STREET CARS COLLIDE Central and College Coaches Crash! After Suil<h Is Split. Many persons were delayed on their j way to work this morning when an I inbound Central car split a switch at Delaware and New York Sts. and collided with an outbound College ear. No one was injured. An inbound Union Traction car pulled the cars apart and ii-'iffii- was- resumed -fier n five minute delay

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year. These times naturally are so chosen that they coincide, in spring and autumn, with the vacations of my oldest son’s who are in school In Germany. Naturally these journeys are previously arranged.” The princess received me in the court chamberlain’s offices which lie back from the winding Doom road in a setting reminseent of an old dutch print, or a glimpse of scenery of an opretta. In this room last November, the princess was united to (lie former emperor by the civil ceremony of marriage. The room’s chief ornament is an enormous portrait of the ex-kaiser in the georgoeus uni-

mil TWO YEARS Distillery Owner Appears in Federal Court After Plea of Guilty, Sentence of two years at the Atlanta penitentiary and $2,000 j fine were given William Krog- | man. owner of the Krogman distillery. Tell City, Ind., by Judge A. B. Anderson in Fedj oral Court today. Krogman was charged with being head of a conspiracy to steal eighteen ■ barrel* of liquor from his own warehouse in 1921. He pleaded guilty during his trial In February. Beven- | teen other men. Indicted in the rori i .“piracy, were sentenced March S. When the others appeared for I sentence Krogmnn’s attorney pr* Rented a doctor's certificate stating Krogman was too ill to appear. De spite this, Judge Anderson ordered him re arrested. The second arrest was not made. Krogman appeared in court with Ids attorneys today and gave himself up Sentence was passed Immediately. Krogman asked fin further time In which to recover from Ids Illness, but the court refused, fie was taken to Jail. Winter Takes This City by Surprise Cheer up. marble players. The forces of Old Mari Winter wer# retreating slowly today after n smash ing drive on Indianapolis that forced the mercury down to 8 degrees above zero, the second lowest t©mpera‘uro recorded this lute In the winter in the history of the local weather bureau. The low mark was 3 degrees below zeio, recorder March 20, 1885, J. 11. rmington, meteorologist wild. Tonight temperatures of about 15 degrees above zero may bo expected, j and Tuesday the mercury will rise rapidly, Armington predicted. $150,000 FIRE LOSS AT SPRINGFIELD. ILL. Two Business Stores Destroyed by Destructive Blaze. Bv f vi* rtf prrtK SPKINGKJ EL.D, 111., March 19. Firemen early today still were pour- ! ing water on two business stores destroyed by fire last night. The darn ago Is estimated at $150,000. The building, which was owned by ! Charjes Burkhanlt of Galesburg, was valued at $50,000. FEDERAL FARM LOAN MORTGAGES TAX EXEMPT F. S. Supreme Court Overrules Lower j Tribunals in Decision. lip Unit'd Press WASHINGTON, March 19.—States cannot impose taxes upon mortgages j negotiated by the Federal farm loan j banks, the Supreme Court held today. ft over ruled decision of the courts in Alabama which upheld a tax of 15 j cents per hundred in accordance with ! nn Alabama law, on a mortgage of the Federal farm loan bank at New Orleans.

CELLS FOR WOMEN ‘TOO DARK’

Cells occupied by the seventeen women inmates of the county jail on the day of inspection by the Marion County board of charities and corrections were too dark, according to the report of the board submitted to Judge 11. O. Chamberlain of Circuit Court. “The shades are kept drawn to prevent. communication with the men, and lights should be installed," read the report. “We thought one ceil empty, hut when the matron brought a light we saw five women huddled there.

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form of the Hussars, while on a writing table is a photograph of the ex-kaiser’s first wife. Incidentally, in other rooms of the castle there are many pictures of the dead empress. The princess greeted me pleasantly. My first impression was that she fairly beamed with health, energy' and the joy of living. She was plainly dressed in a blue costume, with a seal jacket, small hat with a veil, dark cotton gloves, woolen stockings, and she carried a cane. The three youngest of her children played about outside. “My children quickly developed

Marble Shooters Inspect Bicycle Offered by Tunes as First Prize in City Tournament to Be Held Soon

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"i >h, boy, it Is some bike.’’ That was the unanimous opinion of - the 'our marble shooters shown above i who r.'ujio to The Times office to see the bicycle bring offered as the prize in The Times city marble tournament. The bicycle will be given to the best marble shooter, if the champion is a boy. If the champion is a girl, a girls’ type of bicycle will be given. Ml SHANK ILL OF FLO IF! SOUTH Mayor's Wife Is Under Care of Trained Nurse, Mrs. Sarah Shank, wife of th© mayor. Is seriously II of Influenza at Hot Springs, Aik. She 13 in the South with the mayor and City Controller Joseph Hogue and wife. News of Mrs. Shank’s illness was received today In a letter from the mayor to Mrs. Flo Desk man, attache In his office. A trained nurse hits been hired. The mayor said the party expects to return home Into this week if Mrs. Shank’s condition permits. CHIEF TO FILE CHARGES AGAINST POLICE OFFICER William Paul Accused of Being Under I nil uence of Liquor. Charges against Motor Police Officer William Paul will be filed with the board of public safety Tuesday by Po lice Chief Rikhoff, he said today. Paul was suspended following trouble at the Labor Temple kite Saturday. Sergeant Wilkerson Investigated a report that Paul was belligerent at the temple and was under the-iniluence of liquor. O. J. Finkbiner, 2816 N. <>!- ney St., said Paul cursed him and accused him of being a watcher for a gambling game, lie said Paul stepped into the street, drew a revolver and threatened every one In the neighborhood. William Stevenson, in charge of the Labor Temple, said Paul demanded a drink. 110 gave him a bottle of soda, ho said.

“The most deplorable thing we found is the one we have referred to in every report—the urgent need for a place to keep insane people other than at the county jail.” There were 240 inmates on March 5, the day of the inspection. Ten were insane, awaiting commitment to a hospital for the Insane. All but seventeen were men. “The jail is in the best condition we have ever found it in years of inspection,” it was reported. “Sheriff George Snider is to be commended on

confidence in the kaiser and a liking for him,” Heonine said. “And for his part, he treats them with fatherly tenderness. When my oldest boys are here, they help the emperor to chop wood. "The emperor continues this occupation,” she went on, "because since childhood he has been accustomed to plenty of exercise." Wilhelm, she said, finds sawing and chopping wood a substitute for ports, with which to "preserve his physical elasticity.” “He also likes to help about the park and garden,” Hermine added. Then Hermine gave a glimpse of life within the castle, of herself and

The preliminary games will be held a? various school buildings during spring _vacation, if the weather per mits. The weather man thus far h;is not been very kind to marble shooters, but he promises to do better. Remember, that besides being given the bicycle, the city champion will haves an opportunity to play with champions of other cities for the district championship. The winner of the TRIM GRAPE VINES NOW Entomologist Says Pruning Should Not Bo Delayed. Indiana grown grapes are Belling at a good price and vineyard owners will do well to attend to pruning this month, according to Frank N. Wal Lice, entomologist for the State conservation department, In a circular issued today. Grape vines should be pruned during March to avoid “bleed lug.” which Is detrimental to crop production, Wallace said. Peach trees should be sprayed before the buds open this spring, he said. RUHR FARMERS SEEK PEACE IN AMERICA Four Hundred Germans Arrive From Amsterdam. /•'v United .Yrtr* NEW YORK, March 19.—Fritz and Lena and all the kids are turning from the Ruhr to America. Four hundred German farmers, driven out of the occupied region by the French for various causes, arrived on the steamer Nieuw Amster dam Sunday to get jobs in the Middle West. POLICE HOLD TWO MEN Near Accident Pauses Arrest of Pair —liquor Is Blamed. When a sedan almost struck the police emergency machine Sunday, police arrested Percy Hall, 34, 808 N. Rural St., on the charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor. P. J. McNamara, 43, of 509 N Illinois St., who was in the ear, was arrested on a charge of drunkenness. Three men and a woman who were In the automobile had not been drinking and were not ar rested.

his plan of keeping younger inmates separated from older ones. The place is very clean, the food good, and prisoners went out of their way to tell us of their good treatment." A similar report CP the county home for the insane at Jjglietta was submitted last Saturday. A total of 294 Inmates was found. 148 women and 146 men, including five boys and three girls from 8 to 14 years of age. “The place is immaculate and patients get Ihe best of food,” it was reported.

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the former war lord by the fireside of an evening, pursuing diligently an intellectual life. “The emperor is actively interested in all branches of culture,” she said. “Just at present he is busy on archaeological studies and on notes for a booklet he is preparing regarding Greek antiquities “The ymperor also is proceeding earnestly with his meteorological! studies and observations. He is strongly ocupied, too. with theological studies. Only yesterday he he sent a leter to Pastor Vogel at Potsdam in which he discussed theological problems.

district championship game will be sent with one of his or her parents to Atlantic City to play for the National championship. The Times will pay expenses. If you haven't-entered the contest ' fill out a blank today and send it to i the marble editor of The Times. Hun dreds of boys and girls are doing it. Tne coupon and another list of entries are printed on another page. ALLEGED BOGUS ‘SON’ IS JAILED Father Spoils Game by Arriving in Person, David Courtney, Canton, Ohio, wanted to see his missing son, not hear from him, and therefore M. D. Jackson, 26, giving his address as Cleveland, was held under $5,000 bond here today. Leroy Courtney disappeared from Clinton several weeks ago, ac cording to Trafficman Emm -tt Toile. stationed at Meridian and Washington Sts. The. father advertised in a magazine for him. A few days ago he received a telegram from Indianapolis, signet with his son’s name, saying “send sioo and will come home.” Courtney had his sister wire that the money would be here Saturday noon. Instead, Courttv y was at the telegraph office. Police said Jackson came in and represented himself to be Leroy Courtney. The father told j Trafflicman Toile Jackson was not his son. A vagrancy charge against Jackson was continued until March 2S in city court today pending further inves- j tlgatlon by detectives. SECOND DEATH IN FAMILY Son of Daniel Ilecker Follows Mother! to Grave. Within a month death has robbed Daniel flecker, president of the National Realty Company and of the L. P. Beard Construction Company, of his wife and only child. The child, Jonas Sheldon Ilecker, 11, died Saturday of influenza. His mother, a sister of Mrs. Janies P. Goodrich, wife of the former Governor, died a month ago. Funeral services of the boy will Vie held at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday at the home. 3368 Washington Blvd. The body will! be taken to Winchester, where a short! service at the Goodrich home will pro- I cede burial. The lad attended public school j No. 60. Minors Visit Pool Room Boys under 21, living neat- New Betiiel and Wanamaker Post Office. Marion County, were allowed in the pool room of Charles Wilsie, New Bethel, evidence showed in AVilsie’s trial today in Criminal Court. He was fined $5 and costs by Judge James A. Collins.

Forecast FAIR tonight and Tuesday. Rising temperature. Lowest tonight 15 to 20 degrees.

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“Above all, the kaiser follows politics, in which he naturally has the greatest interest. “We have introduced a sort of division of labor in view of the flood of new publications. Each of us reads his portion and reports to the other, whereupon we get together and draw conclusions. “We read with special thoroughness whatever we find written about the kaiser and his personality. “And indeed we do not merely read the favorable judgments. “Sometimes,” the princess smiled significantly, “there is quite interesting reading.”

, Federal Agent Testifies Johnson Knew of Booze Sales, The name of Mayor Roswell O. Johnson of Gary, one of six-ty-three defendants on trial in Federal Court on charges of conspiracy to violate Federal prohibition laws, was brought [ into the ease prominently by : Government witnesses for the I first time todav. *• George Winkler, chief of Fedi oral prohibition agents, testified ; that last November he warned I Johnson that John C. Mullen, | police sergeant. i\as selling liquor j at the Mullen Hotel. i “Johnson said he didn't doubt it and j would investigate," Winkler said. Mulj ’en still was a member of the police | force last Monday, Winkler testified. Tells of Contribution Winkler also testified that last October Lewis Barnes, former sheriff of Lake County, admitted in Joltnson's presence that he had solicited ■ and accepted SSOO from Gaspere Monte for Johnson’s campaign fund. Monte, who was said by Government officers I to be a notorious bootlegger and was ■ to have been an important witness in the case, was murdered last week in Gary. On cross examination by Moses B. attorney for Johnson, Winkler ! admitted that Johnson had offered asdistance in the Gary investigations ‘ last year. "He said he would give us police officers to help and would make | arrests on our affidavits," Winkler i said. Not Worried “I don’t give a d—• about raids so long as R. O. Johnson and Judge Dunn are with us,” Horace Lyle, colored. State prohibition investigator, raid Sam Coffee, a defendant, told. : him. Oscar 1- Sprague, railroad rwltelv man. and Charles E. McPherson, for- ; merly a deputy constable in a justice (Continued on Page 11.) RILEY NEIGHBOR IS DEAD Mrs. Sarah J. Williams Buried in Crown Hill. The funeral of Mrs. Sarah J. WTlliatns, a neighbor of James Whitcomb Riley, who died at her home, 627 Lockerbie St., were held at 2 p. m. today. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Williams was bom in Heightstown. N. J.. in 1843. She came to Indianapolis in 1883. She was the widow of Richard Williams. Mrs. Williams had been in ill health several years. She often used to retail Riley's pleasant greeting as she walked past his home. Mrs. Williams was one of Riley’s oldest neighbors. She is survived by one daughter. Miss Hortense Williams of Indianapolis. POLICE HUNT FOR HUBBY Colored Man Missing After Trouble With Wife. Police today were searching for Robert Champion. 10, colored, 969 Coe St.. Champion is alleged to have attempted to hit his wife with an Iron bar after trouble Saturday night. She took the bar away and he went into the next room to get his revolver, police said. Champion is alleged to have fired two shots at his wife as she ran through the rear yard. He was gone when the police arrived. A DAY IN NEWCASTLE Three Women of Four-score Years \re Injured. By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind.. March 19. Three Newcastle women, each near the 80-year mark, met with serious accidents tdilay by falling. The injured here: Mrs. Thomas Nugent, fractured hip. Mrs. Lon Rodgers, fractured hip and broken arm. Mrs. Frank Howe, fractured thigh.