Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1923 — Page 1
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Twenty Are Killed and 200 Injured in Easter Sunday Auto Accidents
By Unite* Fr, ss . Twenty persons were killed and nearly 200 were injured in Easter automobile accidents throughout the country, according-.to a survey today. Ashland, Ky., led the -casualty list
BLAST WRECKS LIGHT PLAN!
l ARTY CHIEFS |THINK LYONS I SHOULD QUIT P, Leaders ‘Sit Tight' Awaiting Further Moves in Klan §r Resign a cion— Chairman Considered a 'Lia i!ity' to Party Power, Lawr nee Lvon* will he forced to quit a- Republican Bite chainua: a.s a res li, o. his action in joining the Ku Klux Btu and then resignin'* was the opinion of Republican party Brkers h re . ■ While polite u> reiuseß to !>.• quoted directly, they . did W hesitate to nounce Lyons as a liability to the party. While kublieans were ’inis expressing themselves. Democrats were Kong nothing. t
BHVffifflS PEACE FEELER IN 1 RUHRDEADLBCK rupp Heads Held by French Following Outbreak of I Workers, By CART, D. GROAT. BERIJN April 2.—Germany re pwed talk of negotiations to end the klhr deadlock today, following ’he ktbreak of violence in the occupied jeas over the week end that cost |renty-two lives. What was going on in the troubled Fea. around E-sdn could no; be deft rely determined today, conununlca*n with 'hat storm cetiter being inrrupted. * of the last things known to k occured is the arrest by he Fench of four gene a! managers of is Kmpp works, where Eiench •ops Saturday kb ed ulna German I 3no gur fro. Th- managers are Bnge<i with ■ v.-.-v:. rs fact, ry - r-ns s m led U# ' a’Jsitior, automobiles. A crowd Q 0 • i the troops, they reported md JEAvere fore i *o ope:, f MIC i were killed in a train wreck U4ay and two others were killed HU ting over the week-end. :ng with 'he j ,p;ilar outcry fVi bio.', shed in tl." it ibr must Cljs Indications cam< today that the government might :ry new LSJFmaneuvers this i ■ on that Belgium at 1* ast is HU of the adventure and might Sffk, >m Franc, if ofHe made. !|gg§} COMING APRIL 24 for S i:s-Hotn Hiis Town Today. circus under canvas of win VSvn * tPrtl - 4 - city will bo the first. stop folk.wing the opening today making for the circus.
LOUIS BANDITS SEIZE MAIL SACKS fcistered Pouches Stolen From Government Truck — I Estimate of Loss Is Not Given.
I {UL'>| rcgg rs, April 2.—Six heavily held up a Government here today and escaped <c^9 registered mall. ;.ry intercepted the truck •’SVvtdT m., covered the driver and sacks and drove off In a A '^.utomibile. “stimate of th amount of irf->y contained in the sacks had Hi made. ■be truck was carrying the heavy Ester week-end mail from the main btoffioe to the b.-idg© branch post■te In the heart of the commission district n-'-ar the water front. their car to a stop directly jvJF of the m;d! truck, the bandits holding sawed-off shot.tuns. f .'.eveun -Coil O re
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i was learned that the Republican , : aurizatlon expects to “.sit tight" during tlie next few day*, in the hope ’h.;t ft-eli: g will die down and that Lyons will see rit o step out quietly If he does not, pressure probably will be brought to bear to ft rre Ills resignation. Remains a! Brook .Meanwhile, Lyon- remained at his home in Brook, where he is nearly inaccessible Thu*, the action of Lyons has pene. •rated to Washington political circles has become evident. Senator James E. Watson may hasten his proposed trip to Indianapolis because of the impending party crisis. New Men Pleased Reports from Washington ind.taie Postmaster General New and h.s friends received the report of what was termed the Lyons "boner” with considerable pleasure. Lyons fought the appointment of New to the Cabinet. Lyons reiterated today that he will not resign as Republican State chairman. Various reports that Lyons had retracted an interview given the United Press Saturday in which lie said he will “sit tight” and expects the State •entral committee to take no action wre denied by th- Republican leader. THREE HOMES ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE High Winds Threaten South Side District. Throe houses on South Meridian St. were in ruins today following a fire Sunday. Loss was estimated at SB,OOO. According To firemen, the blaze started in a double at 1 .">26 and 152? S. Meridian St. and spread to a double at 1522 and 1524 S. Meridian St. and to a single house at 1520 S. Meridian St. The doubles v/ere owned by N. Huber. Joseph P. Cannon occupied she house at 1520 S. Meridian St. Sparks on the roof of the home of Peter Eirioh. 120 W. Twentioth St., shortly before noon Sunday burned the entire roof off of the house and caused a $2,000 loss. Flames wore confined to the one bouse by firemen after bat'le with a strong wind.
volvers at the occupants of the trucks. The bandits wore masked with handkerchiefs. Three of the robbers transferred the mail sacks from the truck to their automobile. The bandits forced the chauffeur and guard from the truck and locked them in the iron cae of the truck. The robbers drove away, the imprisoned nion calling vainly from their cage for half an hour before they were rescued by a passerby. Poetal pay checks in the pouches, according to postal authorities, were non-negotinble and perhaps the least valuable part of the loot. The total amount of the pay checks was esti mated at J 25.000. Postal Inspectors were rushing in the work of tunning down the quan tity and character of the registered lCn in an effort to approximate the loss.
with six dead and feur injured. Five of the victims met death when their machine was crushed by a train. The sixth was killed in an automobile collision. Detroit ranks next with four dead. Two were killed in Athens, Ga.
PARENTS, WHILE AT GHiiRCH, GET WORD OF DEATH Overdose of Opiate Blamed by Robinson —Youth Suffered Heart Trouble. The death of Bernard Shea, li*. was accidentaLantl due to an overdose of m unknown opiate taken to relieve a heart attack,“ Coroner Robinson said today. The body of Shea, -on of Mr. and •Mrs. Cornelius Shea, 2058 N. Alabama St., was found at 9:20 a. in. Sunday on the second floor of the Labor Temple, Pearl and liiinois Sts., by (. harles Leelz. 451 X Winlhrop Ave., manager of the temple. Loeiz told police William Stephenson, an employe, found Shea, who he did not know, sitting in the hull late Saturday night. They took him to a tear office and left him on tin* floor, he sa? i. The I>ody was taken to the morgue. Wit rn-scs were subpoena'd today to testify at the coroner’s inquest. "1 have taken too much of that drug this time, i believe.'’ Shea said, Leetz and Stephenson told the coroner. Shea's parents were at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral when notified at 1J a m. Sunday n f his d-‘uth. They said he left home So. unlay evening for St. John’s Cathedral, fnpltol Ave. Hnd George St They waited late Sat unlay night fur his return. The parents said Shea had suffered from heart trouble since he was 8. H*> attended Cathedral High School until Christmas. 11l health caused him to quit. lie also attended Jasper College. Jasper, Ind. Ho was bora in Indianapolis Shea frequently suffered attacks caused by leakage of the heart, the parents said They denied he used opiates in any form. John J. Haney, 147 X. Wurman Ave., who stated he had known Shea for three years, testified before the coroner today. Haney testified Sho.i remarked to him. “Duck, I am all in.” After he was assisted to a chair, he said, "f took a bang too much." Haney said. WARM WEATHER Oil SHORT VISIT Mercury Will Fall Again Tuesday, Is Prediction, With the Raster parade out of the way—and a chilly parade It waa —the thermometer began to climb today. At fi a. tn. it reached 40. By 9a. m,, the thermometer registered 48. Increasing cloudiness, probably with rain tonight and Tuesday, was forecast. by J. H. Armlngton, meteorologist. He said the temperature would drop again Tuesday and Wednesday, hut probably would not go down to freezing. Toward the end of the week, warm weather will be in sight a :ja 1 n. ■ nd&unted by cold winds and temperatures that ranged from 19 at 8:80 to 44 at 4 p. m., Mr. and Mrs. Indianapolis paraded Sunday. Clothes displayed were of every style, indicating that Dame Fashion is not so exacting this year. ‘Burglar* Is Niece Police called to 2013 Martimlale Ave. on a burglar report today found that a niece of Mrs. Molly Robinson, colored, had played a jokes They said the niece hid upstairs and made noises.
EASTER MEANS NOTHING IN ‘MURDERER’S ROW’
Hu United .Veicj CHICAGO, April 2.—Easier came and went, its spirit failing 1o penetrate tlie stone walls and barred windows at the Cook County jail, where five men on “murderer’s row” are awaiting to be hanged. To Bernard Grant, sentenced to die Friday for the murder of a policeman dur-
INDIANA FOLTS, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1923
EXPLOSION OF TURBINE PLAYS HA VOC A T ELECTRIC COMPANY
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.' T I.LFT ABOVE IS SHOWN BASE OF RUINED TURBINE, WITH SMALL. PORTION OF CAP REMAINING. AT UPPER RIGHT RESTING ON STEAM LINE IS FIVE-TON UPPER HALF OF TURBINE. BEL'.'.V AT LEFT IS SI’EAM LINE AND TANK, BLOWN FROM TOP OF TURBINE. AT RIGHT IS THE SPINDLE WHEEL FROM TURBINE. WEIGHING HALF A TON. BOTH OBJECTS WERE BLOWN THROUGH AN OPENING TO THE NEXT FLOOR. TWENTY-FIVE FEET BEIAJW.
New Marks in Building and Postal Records Show Prosperity Is Back
Holiday Rush Exceeded in March at Local PostofficG.
* LI, prevloua records wore broken by March postal receipts hero tbl:i year, according to Robert 11. Bryson, port master. They amounted to $330,850.14, an Increase of more than $47,000 over those of March, 1922. and $2,414.67 more than receipts for December, 1022. which sot the old record. The increase over December waa un< xpocted and was considered remarkable, Bryson said, in view of the fact that the grottiest holiday business, in the history of the postoffice waa handled last December. Receipts for the first quarter of the y var amounted to $886,642.06, un increase of $121,871.41 over the first quarter of 1922.
ing a hold-up it meant only we thing—it was his twentylirst birthday. Retaining the same stoic calm which enabled him to look squarely at a jury which had signed his death penalty without flinching, Grant joked with a companion, who is also a doomed ran. “It’s a hell of an Easter
One death each was reported by Dallas, Columbus, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicago, Washington, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Jacksonville, Fla., and New York. Portland, Ore., reported one fatally hurt. Detroit led the injured list with thir-
POSTCFFICE WILL Directory Service Is Ordered Discontinued. Directory service on first class mall bearing no street address and mailed with a return address from Indianapolis will be discontinued, Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, was notified in an order from Washington today. The order will not apply to Insured. registered, special delivery or C. O. D. mail. It has cost about $40,600 annually to give directory service in Indianapolis. Bryson said, lie wan unable to nay what percentage of this cost will be cut off by the order.
and a birthday,” he murmured. That it was also April Fool’s day he forbore to mention. Lawrence Ilefferman and William Cramer, the first two of the five to be hanged, paced separate cells nervously. Both glared at reporters and shook their heads to questions asked them about
Entered as Second-class Matter at PostofTice, Indianapolis. Published Paily Except Sunday.
Construction Reports Are Third Highest in History.
WITH r valuation of $3,028,839 In building permits issued here, March reached the highest mark this year, it was announced today. Valuation for the same month in 1922 was $2,005,051. March, 1923, reached the third highest mark for any month iti the last two years, only May and July of 1922 going higher. In a report for the first quarter of this year, valuation in permits Issued shows u total of $6,651,269 as compared to $3,816,155 for the same period of 1922.
their last day on earth— April 13. * James Smith, convicted of slaying a crippled cigar dealer, and who was saved from the rope with a ninetyday reprieve, was melancholy. Thaddeus Johnson, a negro, found guilty of wife murder, refused even to look at reporters, but buried his faoe m his hands.
ty-six; San Francisco reported twelve accidents but no fatalities; nine were injured in Philadelphia, eleven in Washington, sixteen in Cleveland, fourteen in Columbus and other cities reported from one to six cases. A4 - r /|
Loss Estimated at $700,000 —Two Workmen HurS tories and Homes Left Without illumination® or Power —Schools Closed. I Explosion of a 12,500 kilowatt steam turbine at tbejH olis Light and Heat Company’s Mill St. plant at 5:30 a. v seriously injured two men and cut off electric lijAt and fi factories and homes on the north side. The turbine orator it propelled were wrecked. fij It is estimated by persons who know the cost of stx<B merit that the loss may run as high as $700,000. I Many public schools were dismissed because of laclfl and light. The machinery’ in the plant was imi&ediately &■ ami firemen were called to extinguish the fires in. the boi-Jc
Officials of the company said power service could be fully resumed by 3 this afternoon. John Roach. 46, colored. 431 Rankin St., laborer on the turbine, is at St. Vincent's Hospital with a leg injury. The flesh was tom and the bone may be shattered. The hospital was hampered in its diagnosis by lack of electric light. Porter Smither, 27, of 627 Langsdale Ave., operator, Buffered an ankle fracture. Plant Is Wrecked Just before the change in shifts Smither and Roach stopped at a valve to release the steam. At that instant the blast occurred. The men were blown backward. The heavy top encasing was shattered and small pieces hurled all over the building. Windows were blown out, parts of the roof, bricks and chunks of concrete scattered over the ground about the building. The five-ton head-end of the turbine was blown twenty feet in the air and fell on a twenty four-inch Bteam pipe and was imbedded In the wall. The large armature at the other end was blown out of the generator and hurled ten feet. The spindle end of the armature, weighing nearly a ton, was hurled high in the air. It tore a hole three feet in diameter in the floor. A steel girder halted its fall.
Employes Scurry The place filled with smoke and steam. Employes scurried to safety. They later carried the injured men out und rushed them to physicians. Police did not learn of the explosion until the fire department was called. Considerable difficulty was experienced by Sergeant Wilkerson, who investigated, in getting details. The turbine, the oldest In the plant, had for some time been out of order, it was said. It recently was put back into service, police were told. It was. said that John Davis, construction engineer, remarked that he had expected the explosion. He said Emmett Ralston, the chief electrical engineer, declared he was never sure of the machine since its recent overhauling When men coming to work at 7 a. m. entered the gates and saw he police and firemen, they exclaimed: "Did she blow?" Ralston and Davis denied such remarks were made. Important Plant The Mill St. station supplies light and power for most of the company’s customers. The Kentucky Are. plant supplies heat. Heavy tension wires connect the two. Thomas Gibbs, night chief engineer, said the entire load can be placed on the Kentucky Ave. plant in a few hours. Many public schools taking their heat and light from the Mill St. plant were dismissed as a result of the explosion. Among them were: No. 61, Roosevelt and Olney Aves.; No. 57, Washington St. and Ritter Ave.; No. 18. 1001 E. Palmer St.; No. 21, 2816 English Ave.; No. 29, College Ave. and Twenty-First St,; No. 31, 307 Llncotp St.; No. 34, Wade and Boyd Aves No. 37, Baltimore Ave. and Twenty-Fifth St.: No. 41, Thirtieth and Rader Sts. C. C. Perry, president of the Indian-
BARRICADE BRO] BY COPS IN AI ——' J , James Fife Arrested After Alleged Threat to Weapons Are Found, 1
After battering: in a heavily barricaded door police early today held James Fife, 29, living: in the rear of 1605 Massachusetts Ave., for further Investigation. Fife is believed to be temporarily mentally deranged and will be examined by police surgeons, police said. Fife bad threatened the life of his mother with a gun early this morning, repeating "I’ll kfll you" several times. When his mother broke into tears, Fife ran to the bedroom and barricaded himself, police said. As police were leaving the home with Fife, he made additional threats against his mother, they said. a Police went to the Flfe'home on emergency call armed with shot guiH A pocket knife, some keys to a cabinet .contain! n Gy bnd_n shot—fauniflH
WrF'QTQsMHgI r j nslttlei^BMH v_J night and ably rain. Colder Tuesday.
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a polls Light ard Heat Conßj the following statement: HI "We had a very serioujfJ our Mill St plant sho-.MjC o'clock this morning WWHB K. V. A, turbine blew u;ft9| plant out of and damaging other maxßmf iines and equipment. £qgig none of the employes in irK killed. We have not VrWj eiir.ite r ports t.r to tIBBU varies received by any ojflSA Rush Kep. JB * “It is impossible time the extent of *h t estimate the monetarypßMG loss is not even beinjjHpß gency, being t- ••<-•• re :he VHHH 1 - pk.T^jKSft that ~r: . :, C **> : We have a .3 air.,;.'.:, as wSMEI '4 a. W. n.ac.hine, ■A ■ A.-w-::on. We wap3 •" a few hours the and ter w-vice may he “As Is the case; itHa dents at central power at a loss to explain aSTj** explosion, but an under way.” .. - V KQt'J SHEIK TO SEP cursp# r —gfflw Winner May Be I|p Next Leadltif^Si ■ HSIM -.- An IrdianapoUe by Rudolph Vri' nticrJßßH as the prettiest in tse ©SLIPp night at to New York. wlt- DM& with girls from flXty cip&l cities for the "sheik’s" nffi? next picture, , Valentino and. hie Hud nut. on tour. areßPaSft iyYIY- • our,try. They will a dancing eatertdar’sr.jg| son Hah Wednesday “I am K-ihg *e bfipl woman." Valentino with the most ravish tiie most splendid coi world, for I krvew wilt discover .her tm&m I’Uxes will Ogp; in ’-he eontwt. ■ Repp Wcw T EglgjP Senator ■ F. Evansville and Fre;f2kfjjt!m meler, eeci-eta. ofjffiggfO State committee speakers at a meet morrow.
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