Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1923 — Page 4

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TAKING "11 IT AYOK SHANK proposes to include nearly all COUNTY \/■ of Marion County in the city of Indianapolis. INTO CITY IV 1 Most of the territory he proposes to include is platted. Some of it is farm land All of it is extremely valuable because it is close to Indianapolis. There is no one in Marion County who does not beuetit by hij proximity to the city. In a few cases persons living outside the city derive nearly all the benefits of city life without paying city taxes. These persons should be in the city. On the other hand, should a farmer be compelled to pay city taxes because the city wishes to annex him? There is room for argument. One of the arguments against the farmer is the fact that he probably owns the farm because lie expects some day to turn it into city lots. His argument would be that profitable operation of a farm would be impossible if there were city taxes to be paid. It is a problem that must be solved. There is another problem. That is the duplication of county and city governments. This problem already is present because the population of Marion County outside the city is comparatively small. Still, every taxpayer in the city is paying county taxes. There is as much argument on their side as on the side of the farmer who would object to paying city taxes. The combining of governmental activities in Marion County and Indianapolis is a subject the next Legislature should take up. It might start by amending the Constitution to do away with the numerous justice of the peace courts, which threaten to become a nuisance in Indianapolis, and establishing a central court for petty civil pleas, letting the other courts take care of misdemeanors now handled by justices of the peace. WHEN THE NE of the great unsolved mysteries of our big CROWD { 1 cities is why people like to gather in a crowd GATHERS and watch the piek-and-shovel brigade dig a hole in the ground, ft’s a curiosity that isn't limited to cities. Go out into the country, start digging, and it'll be just a matter of minutes until the farmer will climb down off his tractor or desert his plow and hurry across the field to watch. It is one man’s theory that the lure of digging into the earth is inherited from boyhood when all of us were firmly convinced that pirates’ treasure was buried near by. On second thought, he suggests: “The soil down under the surface attracts us because we realize, that’s where we came from, and that’s where we'll return.” Hare you a better explanationV Mark this: The crowd that gladly gathers H watch the ditch digger is also ready to stop and gaze, semi-trance fashion, at the safe being hoisted out of a building, the fallen horse, the bootleg victim sleeping in the gutter, or similar unimportant sights. It lures them all—from rushing business man to corner loafer, rich, poor, highbrow, simpleton. Afraid they’ll miss something Never too busy to waste time. However, let’s keep on gathering in crowds to watch. Thereby we express the insatiable curiosity that is hack of all progress. Curiosity, whi'?h drove Adam and Eve out of the Harden of Eden, is the guiding force of most of their descendants. THOSE A RTIFTCTAL eyebrows, for women who PLUCKED / \ plucked theirs out with tweezers, are disBROWS 11 played at the national convention of hairdressers in New \ ork. They also demonstrate how any woman with the price can get anew set of evelashes. long and seductive like a movie vamp's. Men will wonder how they’re attached—glued or stitched? Ah, life might lose its glamor for men if they knew too much about feminine wiles. For life is an illusion, and all is futile and dismal when our illusions are destroyed. So. with you, we pass on to the less important things of life, chivalry forbidding ms intruding on the secrets of the fair sex. A TIME r .^[ MES are going to he good, for the rest of TO LOOK | the year at least, predicts the conservative AHEAD and able Harvard Economic Service. Its: economic “background” is the last word in scientific statistics. Another wise authority is Benjamin M. Anderson, economist of the Chase National Bank of New York. He says the sound and prudent business man “will be very conservative in paying out dividends or in taking profits out of the business. lie will 'eek to conserve profits and to enlarge surplus as a buffer against future shocks.” A good lead to he followed by the average man

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You can get an answer to any question or f a et or information ! \- writi’ito The Indianapolis Tinas' Wit-’ i igt.ui bureau, IU2C New York Ave., W t bi; ton. D C.. enclosing C -nis in -tamps. Medical, legal, lore and marriage „and vice cannot-be given, nnr can extended research be undertaken, or papers. •Perches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered but alk letters are confidential and receive personal replies.—EDlTOß. Was Austin, Texas, ever a world capital?” Yes. between 1836 and 1846, Austin was the seat of government of the independent republic of Texas, which for ten years existed as the fellow nation of the United States. Ministers and speciaj envoys were accredited to the republic by the United States and by half a dozen or more of the leading nations of Europe. Is the brown rat a native of America? If not, where did It come from? No. It crossed Into European Russia from Asia in 1727, spread throughout western Europe and reached America during the Revolutionary War. How did the ancient Peruvians do their plowing? Not having draft animals, they used a foot plow, a peculiar wooden Implement. five or six feet long, worked something like a spade. Which State Governor gets the highest and which the lowest salary? Pennsylvania Governor gets -*IB,OOO and the Governors of South Dakota, New Hampshire and Vermont $3,00Q. Is there any word that contains all the letters in the alphabet? No. Where does “slogan” come from? What does it mean? Originally the war cry. or battle xll. of the Highland clans of Seot-

land, if has come to mean the pecu liar watchword, or motto, of an or sanitation. How last do light, sound and electricity travel? At 32 degrees Fahrenheit, light and electricity travel approximately 186,000 miles a second; sound, 1,090 feet a second. When was the first negro brought to this country? Who brought him? According to John Rolfe, In 1619 "a Dutcli man-o’-war, that sold us twenty slaves,” came into the harbor. What is the difference between an al heist and an agnostic? Atheist: One who denies, or disbelieves in, the existence of God, or a Supreme Being. Agnostic: One who neither believes nor disbelieves In the existence of God or a Supreme Being, but claims that it can neither be proved or disproved. What does naked truth mean? Exact truth. The fable says that Truth and Falsehood went bathing; Falsehood came first out of the water, and dressed herself in Truth's gar ments. Truth, unwilling to take those of Falsehood, went naked. Are ex-Service men given any preference in the Civil Service* They are required to make a percentage of only sixty-five In the examinations, and are given preference over civilians In appointments. What does dog-watch aboard ships mean? It is a corruption of "dodge-watch.” To prevent the same men from being on duty at the Bame hours every day tho two short dog-watohers werj introduced In order to change or "dodge,” the watch.

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Radio Magic Mute Is Taught to Use Voice. HOW LEO KUEHN LOOKED WHEN RADIO TAUGHT HIM TO TALK. DETROIT, April 4.—Radio already has enabled many, deaf through birth or accident, to hear. But for the first time radio has taught a deaf-mute to speak—and in one lesson. Tills new radio marvel took place ut the WUX broadcasting: station here. Loo Kuehn, 'JB, deaf muta was tho subject of the experiment. Receivers were clamped on Kuehn's ears. The radio frequency was amplified twenty times. A strange lmht came into Kuehn’s face. He heard! Not only music but voices! The> lie spoke— tit** first words he had ever spoken The words were: “Holy, holy, holy!” And ( f >:v the evening had passed Kuehn k.ol mastered half a dozen words. Physicians looked on amazed ‘ Kuehn never will regain his hearing,” they sail. ‘But radio will teneh him to speak." Kuehn has ordered a powerful radio set.

U. S. LIBERTY BOND OWNERS CARELESS ABOUT INTEREST Americans Failing to Coiled Money Due Them, Treasury Reports, By JOHN CARSON. Times Stall Correspondent. IT J ASIIINGTON. April 4—ls J YV Plcrpont or John W. cared a* little for tie* dollars as do thousands of Liberty bond owners Well, they just wouldn't bo the Morgans and Rockefellers of today. S irh Is the opinion of treasury offi< ials who have been convinced that a great many Americans care little about collecting money due therr. As exhibits, the treasury officials today produced the following: Now outstanding. J70.0R2.0fi0 In origin!;! and :-tnnnr,rv Liberty bonds. Th ■- bod had four Interest couponl - Win n the four coupons were cashed, no more interest could be collected until the bonds were ex- < hanged. Vny bank would handle the exchange But owners of J 70.000.000 worth have not exehanged them and have collected no interest for several years. The Government owes this but is not being forced to pay. Now outstanding, approximately ?R0.000.000 of Victory notes called for payment last December. Tho Government has written som< owners of registered Victories but has gotten no responses. The Victory note owners are losing about SIO,OOO each day In interest. Now outstanding approximately $20.2."?),880 in old bonds and notes which are producing no interest. Some date bark to 1850 and beyond, but the owners are not presenting them for payment. Now outstanding, approximately s3Gfi,ooo,ooo of old currency dating back fifty years and more. That includes some old "shin-plasters.” The Government counts on not more than about $2,000,000 being presented. Preparedness By BERTON BRAI-EY SON, iu the world's confusions, Strive ever to retain Your polden-lnicd illusions. Don’t let their glamor wane; Though 11/0 he harsh ami drastic Don’t let your fulfil be lost; Stay tilithe. enthusiastic. But—keep your ling ers crossed I DON' T let your trust (Tow dim in The well-known human race. Believe in men and women As -rcaturea full of grace; Don't be dour dyspeptic Who thinks the world s a frost, Refuse to be a skeptic. But—keep your fingers crossed I THUS when grim fate denies you The dreahis you may hare had, i It will not much surprise you ’ And you won't feel so bad: Through every cataclysm \ By which you may be tossed i Retain your optimism But— keep your fingers crossed I (Copyright, 1823. NBA Service, ino.>

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Five Famous Unsolved Crimes Linked by Startling Coincidences, With Extortion of Money as Probable Motive of Crooks, By Ft)WARD THIERRY SEA Service Stuff Writer NEW YORK, April 4. —Organized blackmail, perhaps the weapon of a single gang, is considered a possible solution to a series of crimes having startling coincidences and culminating in the murder of Dorothy King, Broadway model. Millions of dollars are secretly extorted, crime experts say, in blackmail plots that have .wealthy men and women as victims. These conspirators are known sometimes as “crime scavengers.” Analysis of the possibilities of a series of notorious crimes having been in the hands of one organized band of blackmailers shows these cases as links in the chain: MYSTERIOUS slaying of "William Desmond Taylor, movie director, in Los Angeles a year ago last February. KILLING of a sailor by Walter 8. Ward, millionaire baker’s son. near White Plains, N. Y., last May. UNSOLVED double murder of Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills at New Brunswick, N. J., last September. CHLOROFORMING of Mrs. Irene Schoellkopf, wealthy BufftAo woman, and $520,000 jewel robbery in New York New Year’s eve. MURDER by chloroform of Dorothy King and theft of $15,000 worth of jewels in supposed plot to blackmail J. Kearsley Mitchell, son-in-law of E. T. Stoteshury, millionaire Morgan partner. Blackmail persisted as an explanation of Taylor’s murder. Walter Ward, whose release has been the subject of an investigation by Governor Smith, declared he killed his victim to save himself from a gang of three blackmailers who lmd already obtained $.10,000 and demanded $7,1,000 more. In the New Brunswick case the Hall family’s theory was that Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills met death at the hands of a hand of blackmailers and robbers. The Schoellkopf robbery case, the only one that did not end in murder, is linked with both the Hall-Mills and the King eases. Chloroform was used to subdue both Mrs. Schoellkopf and Miss King; in the latter case it came from New Brunswick, scene of the Ilall-M ills murders. “I have had a theory that the same gang of blackmailers might have been involved in other crimes previous to the King murder.” said Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand IVeora. Edward S. Schwab, for eleven years post office inspector savs: “Many blackmail cases hinge on letters through the mail, and post-otfii-e inspectors have investigated some that run into amazing figures.” ( hies Dctectixe Edward Raines, attached to the district .attorney’s office, says only a few blackmail eases a year get into the courts because most wealthy victims are willing to submit rather than face exposure, evert though innocent. Wealthy Bride, Age 16, Clings to Blind Mate Despite Laze Order

HU A I A Service V TLA NT A. Oa, April i Would you stl. k to your hus band of two weeks — rs he were blind and penniless and dependent for his living on a meager piano-tuning pract To? And if your parents were wealthy, your home everything you could

MRS. SI SHI GRACE FERGUSON COPER (ABOVE) AND HER BLIND HUSBAND, L. J. COKER (BELOW). wish for and if the courts demanded you return home? “Yes!” says Mrs. Susie Grace Ferguson Gofer, IC, who finds herself today in just that situation. The young woman camo here recently from her home In Sparta, Ga., 100 miles away, to visit her sister. At her sister's home she met L. J. Cofer, 22, blind since birth, known in Atlanta as an expert pianotuner. A quick courtship followed. Tho two were wed. Then G. F. Ferguson, the brido’s father came here and carried hie daughter back home. Cofer followed and Instituted habeas corpus proceedings to gain back his wife. He won. But no sooner had the reunited couple reached Atlanta than Ferguson filed papers seeking to have the marriage annulled, declaring Cofer had married hir daughter through fraud. The case will be heard soon In the Atlanta courts. Meanwhile the girl wife says all the law in the world

can t make her stop loving her hushand and that she intends to stick to h'tn though they botn starve. "I.ove Is tho greatest thing In the world- -and ll’s nil that's going to count In this case,” says she. Hnnsh-r Schools Honored Ten Indiana public school systems have been placed on tho honor roll of the school savings ranking sys tern in the United Staten, according to reports compiled by the American Bat,leers' Association. They are; s.aitli ri'-nd Terre Haute, I.ogunsport. Sullivan, Warsaw, i'lymouth. Hhelbyvll!<\ Auburn, ( arilsle and Valparaiso Threw Automobiles Missing Thru • automobiles were reported stolon today The owners: R r>. Williams. of Frankfort, Ind., John W. Shroyer, 4001 Broadway, and R. F. Hiller, 1941 W. Michigan St.

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ove Wreck L Mother, 19, Slain; / Student Held, JXP 'jA Wm /v MRS. THELMA BEYER (ABOVE) AND FILMOUE HEIKKILA (BELOW). H y SEA .S>n ice SAI'LT STH MARIE .Mich.. April 4.- —Love most commonly appears in the guise of an inspirer, a creator, an upbulldor. Bor, less often. It takes on the form of a destroyer and leaves ruins and wreckage behind it. It pi ived the latter part here the other day ard left in it-' wake: A 19 year <.id mother. Mrs Trc-Ima Bever, dead from a pistol shot. A high school senior. Filmore Heikkiia, facing a mug: t-r charge. An 1S months old baby, wailing for its dead nu 'her The story: When Randall Beyer was IS and Tiieirn . Brent Ik. tho twain ran .;\v.:\ Windsor. Ontario, and were wed This met with objection by Beyer’s parents. Leaves Bride They induced him to pro to Minnesota Thun It was Fought to brim? about a divorce between him and his young wife. Meanwhile, Thelma became a mother Thelma wasn’t over eager for a divorce—until, say police, she met Filmore lb'll.kiln, handsome tuid dash!;, : high school athlete. They became friends. One day Heikkiia came to call. There in an adjoining room heard n shot They rushed in to find Thelma dead with a bullet, through her head. "It was an accident.” Heikkiia told police Inter. "I was showing Thelma my new gun and it exploded 1 wouldn't have killed her. You know T wouldn’t ” Nev-uth less, til.' lad will have to answe" a manslaughter charge. And Thelma's babe Is motherless.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: TWO men married the same nurse in New Jersey They both need An Alabama couple has twenty-two / children, sc every time the family goes I out strangers think it is a picnic. \ i yNc People who cat in restaurants may \. Wir be glad to learn a cook was hurt when A his stove exploded in New York. XiMAA’ London women are wearing monocles, proving untrue the belief women are particular about what they wear. # • Anew tunnel under the Catskills is eighteen miles long and would be ideal to pass through on a honeymoon. While Dempsey is hunting for a light he should be careful to find one lie won’t lose right away. • • • Anew idea for making rain has been advanced which may bo merely anew idea for making money. * * * In Saskatchewan, 15,000 muskrats were caught this season, ‘ much to 15,000 muskrats’ surprise and disgust. * * When a young lady with a comfortable parlor all her own ; can’t be a June bride she isn’t half trying. • * * The rookie pitchers who pass four balls too often will soon j be stopping before the three-ball signs. ♦ * • A movie kiss is only a few feet long unless it is in the audi- | ence. • * Fire destroyed six buildings at Camp Lee. Ts this an official j move to satisfy the vets who have received no bonus?

Interest Mounts in England's ‘Dorothy Arnold’ Mystery

By MILTON BIIONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent London. ApHi 4.—a* clew from faraway India has revived -* national Interest in ‘ Lagland’s Dorothy Arnold.” Paralleling the famous case of the New York girl, whose mysterious dlsappearar.ee a decade ago still remains unsolved, is the ease of Mamie Stuart, pretty Welsh girl. Dozens of gardens in various parts of Wales have been dug up seeking the missing girl's body, Since December. 1919. when she walked out of a Swansea hotel she has been variously reported as stolen, in hiding. a suicide, a runaway, or the victim of murder or accident. Scotland Yard, convinced she was dead, gave up the chase long ago. Now the cables are hot to India because Thomas James, chief officer of the steamship Blythmoor, a friend of the girl's father, a retired sea captuin living at Sunderland, turned up with the story that he had seen the missing girl in India. His ship put in at Karachi, he said, and an English troupe of actors playing at one of the Karachi theaters, was entertained on board. "I recognized one of the young women as Mamie Stuart." said James. "I went up and spoke to her, calling her by name. She stared at me in a peculiar way, and. then said she was not Mamie Stuart, and walked away. But I could not pus sibly be mistaken." Her father had died of a broken heart. Her mother lies ill, broken by sorrow and old age. Blit the flicker of hope roused in her has spurred Scotland Yard to new efforts to find the missing girl.

THE FIRST COLLEGE HISTORICAL SERIES In January. 1850, the Legislature issued a charter to the Northwestern Christian University, which was the first college institution founded in the city, and the first in the world which admitted women on the same basis as men. It was located at Fourteenth and College, until 18 73, when it was removed to Irvington. Because of the generous gifts of land and money from Ovid Butler it was renamed Butler College in 1877. For 38 years previous to this Fletcher’s Bank had been educating the people of Indianapolis iu financial matters, and today its successor, the Fletcher American National Bank, is regarded as an authority on every question of finance. Fletcher American National Bank Capital aad Sarplaa. St.M>o.„a

MAMIE STUART

Several years before her disappearance tried many times to go on the stage. From London she wrote her friends that she was m.i cried. Th n her letters suddenly and investigation showed *l. site had walked out of the Swansea hotel one day leaving her luggage behind. George Shotten, seed to ' tv posed as her husband, wes arrested on a charge of big;.mv. an 1 he was convicted in an un-u.-t .1 tr, >1 in which the first wife, but not the second wife, was produced.