Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUAIBEK 284

LLOYD GEORGE SAYS: REPARATIONS MAY RESULT IN NEW WAR Former British Premier Asserts League of Nations Has Failed to Solve Greatest Problem Confronting Europe —Declf. 3s France and Poland Dominate International Affairs,

By THE RIGHT HONORABLE DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, 0. M., M. P. (Former British Premier) (Copyrisbt. IPC3. by United feature .(‘irate Copyright in .treat RritaJn by London Chi-unieie. Copyright in Australasia by Australian Press Association. Exclusive wor.d rights he'd by United feature Syndicate. Poproduation in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.) LONDON, April 7.—ls the League of Nations a success? It is impossible to answer this question candidly without giving to rival partisans. If you indicate the successes already placed to the account of the League, its opponents decry or minimize these triumphs and suggest that you are blinded by attachment to a chimera. If you point to its shortcomings, the extreme zealots of the league get angry and hint that you are a secret enemy. I mean, nevertheless, to attempt an answer, for much depends on fearless examination of the progress made or missed.

My first answer would bo that It Is •oarcely fair to put this question just yet The league was founded only three years ago—much too short a period to afford a test of the working pf a gigantic, complex but very delicate and sensitive human machine. The league has, however, been long enough In existence to reveal Its •trength and its weakness, Its power, Its potentialities and its pen's. It has already achieved triumphs of which Its founders may well b 9 proud. The restoration of Austria to life when it seemed to have been hopelessly submerged m the deluge of economic, financial and political disaster which had overwhelmed It, Is a notable feat of artificial respiration. The successful effort organised by the league to stamp out typhus in eastern Europe and prevent Its spread to the West Is also a success worthy of record. League Aids Labor The labor branch of the league has also been specially active and energetic, and its persistent endeavor to loise and so-ordinate standards of toil Jn ail evu tries Is producing marked and Important results. But these humanitarian tasks, praiseworthy though they be, were cot primary objects of the foundation of the league. Its main purpose was the averting of future wars by setting up some tribunal to which nations would be bound by their own covenant and pressure of other nations to resort In order to settle their differences. Its failure or success as an expertt.ient wil, be Judged by this test alone How does it stand In this (Continued on Page 3) CLEAN UP RULES ARE ANNOUNCED

Chamber of Commerce Makes Public Regulations, Regular ash collection days will bo observed by city collectors In the annual ciean-up and beautification drive, starting Monday. Rules announced today by Frank H. Blacklidge, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee coopera|ting with city officials In the campaign: All trash except straw, paper, tree limbs and manure will be hauled away. Rubbish must be in alley or front curb line by 7 a. m. on collection day. Collectors must not receive tips. Stove and furnace pipes must be flattens®. Tin gutters, etc., must be not more than six feet long. Trash must be in con'airers that one man can lift. Collectors will not use shovels. Collectors can not take plastering, cement, brick, etc., from homes being remodeled. For Information or complaints, call Belmont 2144. MRS. WALKER SENTENCED Fined S2OO As Result of Booze Raid On Pendleton Pike. Testimony by policemen In city court today that they found thirteen quarts of cognac at a chicken dinner place at Six Points on the Pendleton Pike resulted in a? 200 fine and a sentence of thirty days for Mrs. Trixie Estelle Walker, 34, proprietor of the place. WASTES GAS; HUBBY QUITS Luther Elmore Asks Divorce Because of Alleged Extravagance. Charging that his wife would light every gas Jet In the house, and all the burners on the gas range to run up expenses. Luther R. Elmore, 647 S. Alabama St., today filed suit tor divorce from Annie E. Elmore. It will be heard by Judge T. J. Moll, Superior Court, Room 5. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. 42 10 a. m........ 60 7 a. m........ 45 11 a. m........ 64 i a. m........ hi 13 (noon) 68

MILLERAND NO POINCARE AT ODDS OVER REPARATIONS President's Messenger to Parley in Conference With Premier, By United Pren PARIS, April 7.—Lula Loucheur, former minister for the liberated regions, who has jus? returned from a mission to England, had a Jong conference today with Premier Poincare. This was considered especially significant in view of the report that President Mlllerand sent Loucheur to London to secure British support for a more moderate program toward Germany, to be followed by creation of anew ministry' supplanting Poincare's. - v Af'er the conference Poincare declared that Loucheur had simply given him his impression of the trip. Loucheur’s entourage denied that he brought back British suggestions for a moderation of French policy. It Is an open secret that Mlllerand and Poincare are very far apart with regard to what should be done to straighten out the reparations tangle. The former, through private conferences with would-be ministers, Is trying to find a combination to re place the Poincare cabinet and renew the Franco British entente. Millerand, it is believed, wants to get down to rases or reparations while there is sdll time to endeavor to retire gracefully and gradually from the Ruhr. Poincare Is still very angry at Loucheur’3 apparent usurpation of his role. He had a lengthy exchange of views with the French ambassador at London concerning the possible es. feet of the visit of this private citizen acting as the representative of the French president. Meanwhile, the official pres Is reiterating that France must remain In the Ruhr and that the reparations bill must not be reduced.

Business Lets Cur Die in Misery

"Thy words are too precious to be cast away upon curs.” —Shakespeare. Destiny and an enfeebled force dragged a miserable whelp to the lawn of Indiana's capitol buHiling. Destiny caused him to shrink and curl as protection from a cold, piercing rain. Destiny prolonged his life between sunrise and sunset. Another whelp passed, sniffed his cringing bedy, turned up his nose and trotted away in the rain. Business caused a hundred humans to view the whelp. Business would \ not yield to sympathy. Destiny over took the whelp and business pro- j ceeded. Janitors finally removed the , body. “The dog Is himself; I am the dog” —Shakespeare. CONSIDER PAY QUESTION Indianapolis Teachers Will Vote on Salary Monthly or Semi-Monthly. Teachers of the public schools will vote on the method which they wish used In receiving their pay. The question was brought up at a meeting of the Indianapolis Teachers’ Federation at the Chamber of Commerce Friday. Voting must be completed by April 20. BaUots were distributed asking the teachers whether they wished to receive their stay monthly or eemi-

CHARGES Accounts Board Examiner Will Not Retract Speech on Extravagance, PROBE TERRE HAUTE TALK Governor McCray Says Some Figures Are False —Seeks Further Explanation, Denial by Jesse Eselibach, owief examiner of the State board of accounts, that he had retracted a single one of his statements mßde in a speech Monday at Terre Haute regarding alleged extravagance in State expenditures was made today. “In my conference with the Governor I did not disavow a single statement I made in the Terre Haute speech," Eschbach said. Governor McCray, in a statement made public oday, charged Eschbach with “backing down” on several of his Terre Haute statements when the two met in conference in the Governor’s office Thursday noon. Eschbach, It Is understood, is drafting a reply to the statement of the Governor, who attempted to justify expenditures criticised by tho former. Friends of Eschbach today said he would make “further startling disclosure of extravagance,” in the reply, which he Is said to be preparing. Eschbach refused either to confirm or deny that he was preparing; an answer. Appropriations Scored Eschbach. the Governor says In his statement, denied making assertions that items added to the budget bill by the Senate finance committee rep resented money that “might as w-dl have been thrown into the Wabash River for all the good it will do.” Eschbach said today that newep ipers misquoted him on that subject. Governor McOay In h!s statement, j refused every detail of Esehborh’s alleged charges of extravagance. "I regret very much," the Governor ald, "th.a assertions attributed to Mr. Etch ich may create an lm presslon that the business affairs of Indiana are administered In an extravagant way. The true facts ore that in other States with which wo have a right to be compared, both from the viewpoint of population as J well as material worth. State expenditures show that Indiana's affairs ore conducted in a most economical way. Mast Account Strictly “I cannot withhold calling for a strict accounting, though he be a retiring officer,” said the Governor In referring to Esc hbaeh's charges. "I had not read newspaper accounts cf my address at Terre Ilaute before the Governor contronted mo with his denials in the conference in his office,” ! Eschbach said. “All I can say on this was that 1 was incorrectly quoted and to prove this, l will soon have a letter from persons In charge of the meeting where my speech was made. j “I still stand behind the remarks I really made, however, I did not disavow one of them."

FIVE BODIES PiCKED UP BY FISHING SCHOONER

Unidentified Steamer Sinks Off Cto.ilmarli. Bit United Press VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass , April 7. —The fishing schooner Menensha arrived here with the bodies of five men found floating off Chilmark, not far from the spot where a small unidentified steamer sank sue denly yesterday. Another schooner was reported to have found two more bodies. SIGN TRAFFIC ORDINANCE Mayor’s Signature Puts Code in Effect Electric Display Measure Is Law. The now traffic ordinance and the revised electric sign measure were signed by Mayor Shank today. Both were pasted at the last meeting of the city council. The principal change in the new traffic ordinance is the permitting all turns at all street Intersections in the downtown district except prohibiting the left turn at the termination of the four avenues. The other changes the 11 seen so required on electric display signs to a fee and reduces the rate. O’BRIEN WARNS CARMEN Fire Truck Accidents Blamed on Street Car Motormen. Fire Chief O’Brien today said street car motorman have not been observing the rule requiring street cars to stop immediately at the approach of fire apparatus. The matter probably will be taken up at the next meeting cf the board of safety. Chief O'Brien said the practice confused the firemen and often led to serious accident*. He said he Is doing everything In his power to cut down the number of aooiaents. He said several firemen aro off duty on account q| Ja jMKMMiI AMdUtoXdßk

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1523

Plant Trees, Then Birds Will Visit

cr r ANT birds? Then plant trees. That la the advice of Sam- ’ uel E. Perkins, president of the Nature Study Club of Indiana. Birds disappear whon trees are gone, Perkins said. The department of conservation of Indiana distributed 1,000 tulip trees today, through the Nature Study Club. Trees were distributed to libraries, hospitals, Boy Scouts, city parks and to Representatives and Senators In the last Legislature, Trees are to be planted on each side of the road leading from Ernrichsville to Woollens' garden. “English sparrows are most numerous In the city,” Perkins said “Next to the sparrow Is the robin and 'he wren." Perkins reports that two robins which lived at Ids home, 1011 N. Pennsylvania St. A hist summer have visited hi3 home this spring. Their identity is established by the marker which he put on them last summer. “The trouble with the sparrow in the city Is that he Is a very pugnacious fellow,” Perkins said "He Is not the cleanest follow In the city either. The sparrow delights in pick’ins on other birds, especially on robins and wrens.” “Rut if you want to have birds near your home the only thing to do is to p. int trees,” was Perkins' advice. GIKMP FROM' WIVES OF FORMER OFFICIALS

Mrs, Newton D. Baker and Mrs; Benedict Crowell Are Defendants. Tty Un tf ed Press CLEVELAND, April 7.—Miss Dorothy Clayton today In Common Pleas Court, filed suit for SIOO,OOO against Mrs. Newton I). Baker, Mrs. Renodiet Crowell and Miss Florence A. Black, alleging false and malicious slander. According to the petition theee three and M is Pearl Anderson, director of Cleveland Council of Girl Scouts, conspired to remove her as leader of a Girl Scout troop. She claims that to gain this end they published false and malicious statements concerning her character and reputation. Minis PROMISED BY WEATHER MAN Short Sample of Spring Will End in Cold Wave. April showers will be In order Sunday, according to weather bureau announcements today. With the rain will come ' cooler weather’ extending over the early part of next week. Indianapolis enjoyed genuine Bpring weather today. At 12 o'clock the mercury had climbed to t>s degrees. Coats and wraps were unnecessary- -At 10 o’clock the thermometer registered 60 degress. The record established today is the high mark of the year. Officials said cloudiness would Increase late today, ending with rain tonight.

THEY STILL PERSIST IN TRIFLING WITH DEATH

In spite of all the newspapers have printed about being careful. In spite of Traffic, Ca.pt. Michael J. Glenn's constant warnings. It happened. Motor-man on a Pennsylvania car clanged a warning as the car started north across Washington St. A flivver driver disregarded tho traffic cop. Motonnan kicked frantically on his bell. Flivver escaped by an Inch. Motorman sighed. Market St. woman with baby in her arms dashed across the street. "Clang! Clang!” the inotorman’s bell. Saved

Spring! Youthful Blood Feels Urge of Season

SPRINGTIME on N. Talbott Ave. The buds are not out, all the birds are not back, black smudges dot the public lawn space where perhaps tho last load of coal was transferred from Wagon to wheelbarrow, hedges are scraggly, but — • • • Three little boys perform strange antics on the sidewalk. They have some mystio squares and triangles with a piece of chalk. One grasps a piece of ooal, tosses It Into a square, hops Into it with one foot, pltTfriT up Ja&O

Terre Haute Girl Is a Bit of an Athlete

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Miss Blvln is a Terre Haute girl anl a crack or Jack athlete. She vforks for the Pennsylvania Railroad and is entered in the regional oontesta being held at the Coliseum

ADRIAN GREENE, 13, IS CROWNED MARBLE KING OF THREE CITY SCHOOLS Dead Shot With Mmmie' Wins Over Field in First of Times Elimination Tourneys—Friends Carry Winner on Shoulders.

Adrian Greeno, 13, of 1018 TV. Twenty-Seventh St., became marble champion of three schools today. He won the first sectional elimination tournament at School No. 44, TwentyFirst Ht., and Sugar Grove Ave., and earned the right to enter the city championship game in The Times marble tournament. Tho city champion will be sent to Atlantic City with his or her father or mother to play for tho national championship. All expenses will ba paid by The Timas. Decides, Tho Times will givo a fine bicycle to the city champion. Pupils Root for Favorites A large crowd of noys and girls from Schools Nos. 41, 42 and 44 rooted for their favorites, as one player after another was put out by deadly shooting. The contest narrowed to three boys,

by another inch. Passengers, jarred when air was applied, sank back relieved. It waa a boy at Ohio St. More air, more clanging bell. Another narrow escape. Motorman approached heart failure. End of the congested section at New York St. Another fool. Ha carelessly turned hla automobile in front of tho car. Watchful motorman saved him damage. Mopping his brow, the motorman muttered: “And yet they blame us."

air and lights, with feet spread far apart, facing In the other direction. ’’Your foot’s on the line! Your foot’s on tho line!” shouts his companions, and another one tries it. Hopscotch, it is. Regular kids, too. Not a potential sheik among ’em. * * * A tot too young to participate watches the hopeootcherz. Another year and he will. He turns to Watch some little girls. • • TU ralawe diocnas there 4

MISS VIOLA BIVIN

today. She is a speed queen, being regional champion In the dashes. She is a member of tho relay team and captain of the basket-bail team.

Ivan Miller, Lynn Robbins and Adrian Greene. The crowd gathered closer as the boys began to play. The ! three players posed for their pictures us they started to shoot and then forgot all about he camera as It : caught them in action. “lilt ’em, Adrian,” “Knock him out, Lynn," “Hit his taw, Ivan,” the crowd : advised as the game progressed. Dead Shot With "Inunle” Right at the start, Adrian showed he had the stuff. His deadly accuracy with an "iramia” knocked ono marble after another out of the ring, lie won by knocking out the marbles and not by knocking out his opponents’ "taws.” There was a shout as Adrian knocked the last marble from the ring. He was picked up by some of the | bigger boys and carried on their | shoulders. i Adrian is small for his age, but he I has had a lot of practice as a marble | shooter. “I Ought to Have” “I ought to have,” he said. “I’ve j got three brothers and throe sisters.” One of his brothers, Paul, played : in a preliminary game, but was elimj lnated. Adrian Is eager to go to Atlantic : City. “My mother is dead," he said, “but I want to take my father.” - The games were the first of the elimination contests ,in the city tournament. Others will be held at various schoolhouses on succeeding Saturdays. The sectional winners will p!ay for the city championship.

Do you know they clean the faoes and hands of their “babies” with cold cream? It doesn’t take off the paint like water does. These modern misses! Out In the street a hefty fellowshouts with laughter as he throws a golf ball. His dog leaps in the air and catches it on the bounce. The master applauds. He’s a well known doctor with a big practice. • e • Good old Arneitean street. There’s lots like ft in Xndlanapoll*.

Entered as Second-class Matter at Postofftce, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday

Mrs, Theresa Perry May Have Been Murdered by Husband if Statements of Friend Prove True —Romance of Years Revea'ed as New Angles Are Exposed, Albert V. Smith, 32, and Mrs. Theresa Perry, 42, the woman lie is alleged to have murdered last Monday night, were man and wife. This statement was made to a Times reporter today by George A. Butcher, farmer, living nine miles northwest of the Monument on the Salt Lake road. Butcher and Smith were friends of long standing. Smith worked for Butcher.

Smith has not been seen since he borrowed $8 from his brother. Fred Smith, 1219 W. Thirty-Second St., Monday right after the murder at Mrs. Perm's home, 729 Rochester Ave. If Butcher's belief that they were married is true Smith and Mrs. Perry kept their marriage secret from all but him because police with Information from relatives, have been going on the theory that Mrs. Perry was the divorced wife of Fred B. Perry, Astoria, Ore., long time friend of Smith, and that Smith was in love with Mrs. Perry and insanely Jealous of her. New Angles Loom Butcher’s statement throws light upon several angles of the case. For instance, police have been told that Smith lived at Mrs. Perry’s home for several months prior to the murder. Butcher knew that Mrs. Perry was divorced from Perry many months before the murder, ana caused a telegram to be sent to Fred E. Perry at Astoria, Ore., telling him of his wife's death. Perry is said to have answered the telegram by telegraphing a reply that he had divorced Theresa Perry, lie gave no date for the divorce. Knew Smith Well “Bert Smith was like a brother to me,” declared Butcher as he stood on the hillside of his farm on the Salt Lake road. “Bert stalled to work for me soon after he returned from Alaska, where he served In the army during the war. We worked together for about three years. He quit in March, 1922, and If it had not beeij for the murder he would have been working right hero now, for he promised me to come here this week. “We went on automobile trips together. We hunted, fished and camped together. This is the truck wo used on our three weeks’ camping trip to Madison, Ind. We were just like brothers. You see Bert was sometimes confidential with me. In fact, more so than with any other person. That was the way I learned that he was married and that Mrs. Perry was divorced from Fred E. Perry. Trip Taken in 1921 "It was in October or November of

1921 that Bert and Theresa took a trip. I don’t know Just where they went. He later told me they went to Brown county where she had Interest In a fafltn. "It was soon after that that Bert asked me if he could bring Theresa to my farm. When I hesitated he told me that they were married and he could prove it. I didn’t ask him any more about it for I thought that if he wanted to tell me he would. Theresa never came to my farm, though because I thought It better that she not be brought here.” “Before that time Bert had shown mo some letters. One of these stated that Fred Perry had obtained a divorce from Theresa. Soon after that letter was received Bert told me he was going West to seo Perry. Bert made the trip to Oregon, and after a brief stay in tho West returned here. T note that the papers say Perry went West two years ago, but I am sure It was more than that, for it must have been three or more years ago. The letter Bert read to me. written by Perry, said not only that he had obtained a divorce but that he had lost his love for Theresa, and that he loved another woman.” Called Him Every Day “Theresa met Bert Smith a few days after he returned from the army. At first I thought she was his sister. She called him by telephone every day. Sometimes he would go away to get away from her. She would, however, appear at my stand on the city market every Saturday night to see If Bert was working. They would quarrel sometimes, but Bert loved her until last fail, wheff she caused his arrest and had him sent to the Indiana State farm for an alleged attack on her. Bert never got over that. Smith’s Character Defended "Bert Smith I do not believe will ever bo taken ollvo. Ho would kill himself before he would surrender. He Is a wonderful man In the woods. Ho knows every tro3 and every bird, by noma. He Is the best rifle shot I ever saw'. He had ‘bummed’ rdles on trains all over the United States, but he never begs. He work's for what ha eats. He knew everything about a garden and he was a hard worker. Bert never saved any letters but destroyed them soon after reading them. The only pictures he ever had taken were those in Alaska He took those with him when he left my house. One day we met a soldier who Bert called ‘Whitey*. He lives In northern Indiana, and lie has the films of the plcutres taken In Alaska. One thing more that makes me believe that Bert and Theresa were married,” concluded Butcher, “is that Bert was not the type of a man who would go with a married woman not divorced, or who would live with a woman not his wife." Windshield Is Btolen D. D. Bowen, 2229 N. Keystone Ave., today told police that a thief f.ole a windshield valued at $lB from lie •u----tomobU*.

Forecast INCREASING cloudiness with rain, probably tonight and Sunday. Colder Sunday.

TWO CENTS

ATHLETIC MEET OF PENNSYLVANIA GETSJjNDER WAY Many Persons Crowd Coliseum to See Star Athletes Perform. Competition In the second annual athletio carnival of the Employed Athletics Association of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, got a late start * at tho coliseum, State fairground today, but the athletes went to It strong after races and contests got under way. The big arena -was the scene of some lively sprints, runs and contests and a large crowd was present. Preliminary heats were run In numerous events and it took much time before the finals were reached. Early results follow'; 440-Yard Dash (Open Finals)—Adams (Columbus), first; Petty (Columbus). second; H. Rudolph, third. Time, 1:00 4-5. Volley Ball (Men’s Finals) —Pittsburgh of the Central Region defeated Columbus of the Southwestern Region three games, 15 to 10, 15 to 4 and 15 to 5. Quoits (Men’s Finals)—South Bend of the Indiana division defeated Columbus of the Central Ohio division, 31 to 22 and 31 to 21. DRIVER TEELS OF FATALACCIDENT Brown Asserts He Was Traveling 12 Miles an Hour. In a voluntary statement to Coroner Robinson today, Van B. Brown, clerk, 4224 Graceland Ave., declared ite was not driving faster than twelve miles an hour when his automobile struck and fatally injured John Golden. 65, of 152 SM. Rembrandt St., Thursday evening at Capitol Ave. and Fall Creek Blvd.. N. Dr. Mrs. Golden also was injured. Brown said he stopped at the boulevard and turned into it to the east from Capitol Ave. He saw a flash by one of his fenders and heard a woman scream, he said. He had his dimmers on and it W'as misty, he said. He stopped so quickly ti e body of Golden was only four feet behind his car, he said.

Operating Expenses of Company Will Be Discussed, Preliminary hearing In the Investigation of the public service commission into the Citizens Gas Company, preparatory to fixing a permanent gas rate, will begin next Wednesday, John W. McCardle, chairman of the commission, said today. The Wednesday hearing and several following will be confined to operate ing expenses of the company, MoCardie said. Commission engineers are completing a survey of the plant and equipment, on which hearings will be held later. The Citizens Gas Company la now operating under a temporary rate of $1.20 per 1,000 cubic feet, set in Federal Court.

Heaviest Snow Fall of Year in Northwest Bp United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., April 7. The heaviest snow fall of the year blanketed the Northwest today—tho seventeenth day of spring. Rail traffic was tied up as the snow continued. More than sis inohes fell hero between midnight and morning.