Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1923 — Page 2

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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF CITY LIBRARY TO BE CELEBRATED

THREE HELD AFTER GIRL ATTEMPTS TO COMIEIDE Sisters and Soldiers Involved —Child Neglect Charged —Ellen Alien May. Die, Because Ellen Allen. 22. rooming ,at 124 E. New York St., was said to have taken poison tablets Friday, she. her sister and one soldier from Ft. Benjamin ILirrison were under arrest today on charges of child neglect and contributing to child neglect, and warrants were out for two other soldiers. Police said that the poison was taken at 8 a. m., but that the girl told an officer she was ill and had not taken poison. It was 5:30 p. m before the police were called again and the woman was taken to the city hospital. Physicians said the delay might cause the poison to prove ft tal. Mrs. Allen said a love affair caused her to take the poison, according to police. Mother Tells Story Airs. Anna Melendez. 240 lowa St., mother of the girl, when notified of her daughter's act. said Airs. Allen had deserted her husban 1 and three children and had run away with a soldier. She also said another daughter, Nellie May Smith had left her husband and two children for a soldier, according to police. Mrs Smith was arrested at Michigan and Agnes Sts. and charged with chili neglect. WHiie Tester.. Company K, 11th Infantry, whom police saift they found waiting for Mrs. Smith, was arrested. Warrants were issued for ■ Emerson Cothren. Company K. 11th Infantry, and Oakley Foster of the 3rd Field Artillery, both of Ft. Harrison, charging them with contributing to child neglect. Soldiers Involved Police said, Gilbert Smith, 940 Lynn St., was standing on the corner watching his wife and the soldier. Mrs. Alien told police that she was separated from her husband. Vern Surface, and was known by her maiden name, Eller. Allen, officers said. She said she was the adopted daughter of Sarah Seich, R. R. No. 3, Greenwood. Ind. She told police she had been going with Oakley and Cothren, according to officers. She gave Foster up for Cothren and later regretted It and wrote Cothren a letter, police said. Letter Four and The letter, which police found, said In part: "My Dear Boy:—Darling you never can understand how you make me feel when I ask you if you are going to take me with you and you don’t answer yes like you mean it. Cothren. can't you see you are killing me by talking that way. Well, by not staying in last night, your baby got Into trouble. I took some medicine this morning and they called the police. They say I have to move, so I am going I don’t know where. If you ever want to find me I’ll send you my address. “I took some poison, but was prevented from taking more than ju<--t one and it happened that just one was sufficient to do the work. I certainly Intended to end It all. Pleas" remember me and when you want me to come to you I’ll always be ready and love you just the same."

GIRL REBELS AS PUPIL; MISSING Relatives Seek Margaret McSweeney, 16, Here. Has pretty Margaret McSweeney. 16, carried out her threat that she would not go to school any more after her sixteenth birthday? Police today said her father, Clarence McSweeney, 60.", \V. Sixty-Third St., Chicago, told them Margaret was last seen April 2 in the Big Four station at Greensburg. She was on her way home for the Easier vacation from a girl's boarding school at Oldenburg, Ind. She parted from chums at Greensburg. McSweeney said it is possible she took an intcrurban car for Indianapolis. The father said Margaret had declared she would not go to school after she reached 16. Pearl Niekens. 2149 N. Pennsylvania St., and Mrs. Patrick Dailey. 1002 Cornell Ave., relatives, are assisting in the search. KABRICKiSGiVEN SUSPENDED TERM After pleading guilty to embezzling approximately f4,500 from the Midwest Crushed Stone Quarries Company. of which he formerly was assistant cashier, Paul Kabrick, 31, Baker Apts., today was fined SIOO and sentenced to two to fourteen years in Indiana State Prison, by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. With the consent of Prosecutor William P. Evans, Judge Collins suspended the sentence. Kabrick. when indicted, told Evans he lost most of the money playing poker in various gambling houses. His testimony helped to convict four alleged gambling * house keepers, Everett Orr, Henry Cameron. George Travis and Walter Shockley. Officials of the quarries company said they would take Kabrick back in tfieb# employ if they had a position wheJ he did not have to handle money.

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BABY FIGURES M Husband Forgives Erring Wife in Court,

Both the man and the woman were well dressed, beurlng every evidence of culture and comfortable circumstances. The baby had been found by policewomen when they raided a children's home conducted by Mrs. Anna Fehiinger at 509 S. Harding St., several weeks ago. The man and woman were married, but no tto each other. The husband of the woman sat in juvenile court while Judge La hr declared: ‘‘This is the most shocking case I have heard. That people reared in refined, well-to-do homes and both married to someone else should carry on like this is a bad sign for our civilization.” Judge Lahr ordered the baby reared in a Catholic institution, on request of the mother. The husband said he was walling to forgive his wife. PARADE TO OPEN SHOW Fort Prepares for Horse Event at Coliseum. Headed by the 11th .lufantry Band, civilian and military entries will open l:. Ft. Benjamin Harrison horae show Friday afternoon. April 27. with a parade. The show will be the social event of the spring season, it is said It will 1.,* 1 held in the Coliseum at the State fairground. 11.: ■ indoor polo games will b played Two Indianapolis teams will compete with post teams. All classes of riding horses will be shown, and civi'.i: :,s have a chance to compete. Jumping contests and drills will be staged. No fee for entry of horses will be charged. ?

MAIL BANDIT STILL BAFFLES PURSUERS

■ 'Million-Dollar' Robber Is Trailed by Hundreds of Georgia Citizens. , Bu ! nited Press ATHENS. Ga.. April 7—Gerald i Chapman. New York mail bandit and much wanted fugitive, had hundred* i of pursuers baffled today following j his escape for the third time from armed guards and hospital attend- : ants. Although a corps of expert rnan ! hunters took up the trail of his latest escape yesterday immediately after Chat man staggered out of a local hospital, where he had been found by a nurse and a guard, the one-time leader of N- w York’s underworld was still at large oday. Posses searched the vicinity of the I hospital during the night momentarily I expecting to stumble on the convict, weakened from bullet wounds received j following his escape from the Atlanta , j penitentiary. lias High Fever Chapman is also suffering from | lack of food and a high fever. Aui thorltles believed he would be unj able to go far without medical atteni tlon or aid from confederates In close touch with the situation involving his j daring escapes. Chapman, is hiding near his old I haunts In New York, say older mem- ! hers of the metropolitan detective j force. They do not believe the criminal, whose daring flights have put him in the position formerly occupied by Hoy Gardner. Pacific coast bandit, has fled to the mountains of North Carolina, as Georgia authorities at first believed. Chapman was sentenced to the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta. Ga., after he had been convicted of beI ing the leader of the $1,000,000 mail robbery here In 1921. Cut light Wires Early on the morning of March 27 Chapman and Frank Grey, convicted forger, escaped from the penitentiary. | They cut the wires supplying electric i lights for the prison yard and, under j cover of the darkness, scaled the prison wall by means of a rope ladder, j supplied by friends outside. ChuiDian, however, was recaptured, after Jb bad been shot three Mr-e®. He wrl placed In a hospital at Atlanta Ga_, Antler heavy guard. Doctors said his condition was so I

CITY MARKET FLOAT (ABOVE) WITH MRS. IRMA BYRUM (LEFT) AND MRS. MARY MORIARTY. NEW POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND (BELOW) IN MUNICIPAL CLEAN UP PARADE}.

It looked good enough to eat, and it was, according to Policewomen Byrum and Moriarlty, who prepared the city market float for the municipal clean up parade Friday afternoon. StandH tlders cooperated

HE COMIE: SHOW AND DANCE Spring Frolic to Be Featured by Passing Show of 1922, ! Murat Shrtners will combine a theater party and dance for a spring frolic at the Temple on the evening of April 16. according to plans being formulated. The ‘‘Passing Show of 1922” with a company including Willie and Eugene Howard George Hassell, Ethel Shutts, Emily Miles Nellie Breen and others j together with a large chorus and twen- i ty-slx scenes will be presented In tin- I rt of the evening. Dancing will follow in the nev. ball room. < sale will open ’i •> sday morning at 9 o'clock Half of the house will be reserved for mail orders. Edward J. Gausepohl is chairman j of the entertainment committee.

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GERALD CHAPMAN iverlous that an escape would be impossible. But Chapman fooled them. He dressed in his guard's clothes, knotted his bed sheet into a rope and, while his temperature was at 100 degrees, climbed to the ground and fled.

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fully. The policewomen helped Market master Robert Sloan regulate the market. The new police and fire department band made Its first appearance in the parade.

GOSTIEN COLLEGE TO CLOSE DOORS Clash of Liberal and Conservative Factions Cause, By United Brett GOSHLN, Ind., April 7.—Goshen College, a Mennonite school, will be closed permanently at the end of the present term as the result of a clash between liberal and conservative elements, It war, announced today following a special session of the board of e lucation. Dissatisfaction over the conduct of the school led to protests by the students. who filed complaints with the board. The students desired a more liberal policy, but the board, composed of the conservative element, denied the petition. A controversy resulted and financial support was withdrawn by the pro gresslve element. State Briefs BLOOMINGTON—The Sigma Nu fraternity house will be remodeled and an addition built at a cost of $22,000.

CRAWFORDS VILLE—While her mother thought she was sleeping peacefully, Janice Joy Brown, three months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Brown, died of pneumonia. VlNCENNES—Construction of a $150,000 coliseum as a memorial to soldiers and sailors who fought in the World War Is asked In u petition to the city council. COLUMBUS—Because the county council refused to appropriate money to replace the Brown County log cabin jail, which has been condemned, prisoners will have to continue to go to Johnson County. ELNCRA—WiIIis Burkhart, 7, was seriously Injured when lie was struck by a truck as he was running for a school hack. LEBANON—HaroId Greenich, farm hand and World War veteran who has been 111 since he was gassed during the war. Is in a serious condition after taking poison. SULLlVAN—•Prosecuting* Attorney Narval K. Harris and Miss Grace Stewart were married secretly in Robinson, 111. FT. WAYNE—Two 12-year-old school girls confessed to n police matron that a desire to wear pretty dresses to public dances prompted them to steal from stores. ALEXANDRIA—A. M. Ebaugh is under arrest on charges of criminal mistreatment of his 12-year-old foster daughter. KTJBHYTLLE—Jack Pod Conn, held In jail here, Ip charged with the murder of a man In Rowan County, Kentucky, In January, 1921. GARY—Jewels valued at $1,200, stolen in three cases, were recovered by Police Captain Linn. ELWOOD —The Ku-KJux Klan staged a parade here with about 600 In line. COLUMBUS—An attempt of John McCoy to end his life by taking rat poison failed and ho Is recovering GREENFIELD—In a gas explosion the building of the Interstate Public Service Company's pumping station was nearly {recked and Dock C. Jackson, an employe, was seriously burned.

Program Planned in Observance of Half Century of Growth of Institution Started in 1873 by Public-Spirited Citizens. Not many persons today recall an event April 8, 1973, just fifty years ago Sunday, the results of which probably are as important to Indianapolis as any single happening in the city’s century of existence. On that day, the first Indianapolis public library, the initial one of a series of five culminating in the modern structure that now houses the city’s literary collection, formally was opened.

In comim-mmoration of this event., a program of reminiscent talks and music will be held at the library at 3 p. m. Sunday. Credit for the beginnings of the library is placed by Charles E. Rush, present librarian, with the Rev. H. A. Edson. In a sermon Thanksgiving Day, 1868, Edson deplored the lack of a library. The result was the formation by 100 men of the Indianapolis Library Association, with annual dues of $25. A book collection soon was put together, and early in 1869 the library —not a public one, however—started In Martindale’s building, northeast comer Pennsylvania and Market Sts. Non-subscribers were given library privileges by payment of $5 a year. Free Library Urged A. C. Shortridgo, superintendent of schools, was among the first to urge n free public library. In 1970 he called together seven or eight interested men. two of them Legislators. They prepared a bill providing for a public library as part of the Indianapolis school system. It passed the Legislature ,n IS7I The school board named a library committee. An old residence on the northeast corner of Michigan and Pennsylvania Sts., previously used by the Indianapolis Female Seminary, was acquired The old part of Short rid ge High School now stands on the site. Charles Evans, a famous Dibit ographor, was chosen the librarian "In certain fields Evans was the best bibliographer we have had In the library game,” Librarian Rush said. He was the father of Chick Evans, famous golfer. The library soon became well known and caught up with those of other cities. Institution Moves In January, 1576. It moved to the oi l Sentinel bull ling. ithwest cor ner Meridian St. and. Monument Pi., recently torn down to give way to the now Guaranty building. Rapid growth

League Is Notified of International ‘Dope Fleet’ Drug Runners Operating Off Canadian Coast With Regular Trade and Route,

By Vnitnt Pre** GENEVA, April 7.—An international "dope fleet" Is operating off the Canadian coast, landing drugs for shipment to the United States and other countries, the dominion government has notified the secretariate of ;he League of Nations. This flotilla of drug runners operates similarly to the liquor fleet off the New York und New Jersey shores. Tho notification to the league states that tho "dope" smugglers are engaged in transporting cocaine, morphine and other narcotics. A Canadian official, j

Youthful Czech Singer Carves ■ Exquisite Articles From Wood

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HANDIWORK OF ADOLPH POUZNER

When Adolph Pouzner, youthful singer In the Bakule Chorus coming from far-off Czechoslovakia to Indianapolis to sing under auspices of the Junior Red Cross, April 26. strolls In the woods of his native land he takes his pocketknife along. He carves birds and animals out of pine cones, chestnuts and twigs, like those above. The chorus arrived in New York Friday. It will spend four weeks touring the United States. E. H. K. McComb, chairman of the Indianapolis Junior Red Cross, with the cooperation of the executive commitee of Red Cross chapter, plans to show the young musicians the time of their lives while they are In Indianapolis. Their visit Is looked forward to as one of the unique musical events of the season . The remarkable results achieved by the Czech professor, Frantlsek Bakule, founder of the Bakule School of Prague, In taking crippled children from the streets and making wonderful performers of them, are being studied by half a dozen countries in Europe. From the standpoint of the school-tuacher, Bakule’s methods offer suggestions which may revolutionize manual training methods. In addition to music the children are taught handcarving. Some of them make exquisite articles out of wood. Their work will be exhibited In the public schools here. Professor Bakule started his school

I in the next five years necessitated a | second move. The school board bought the E. S. j Alvord property at Pennsylvania and | Ohio Sts. Here the library was housed i 1880-1893. In 1893 anew building, now : occupied by the school board and the j business branch and teachers’ librar- ■ ies was opened. This housed the ; library until Oct. 7, 1919, the birthday anniversary of James Whitcomb Riley, when the handsome $500,000 structure at St.. Clair, Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts. was opened. The poet donated one-third of the site for the new building. The children's room was named in his honor, j On the Pennsylvania St. doors an inscription reads: "These doors open on j land given to the city by James Whit- ' comb Riley.” A medallion of the poet 1h cut in stone beside the door. The front bronze gates were given by school children in Riley's memory. Had 12,000 Volumes In 1873. when the first public library opened, the collection consisted of 12,000 volumes, mostly bought in Europe. Four thousand books were gifts of the Library Association. There were 500 readers. At the end of six months the library boasted 4,000 i e.-idera. Today th<> library has 300,n00 volumes and more than 90,000 readers The number of readers has gained more than 100 per cent in five years. There are eighteen branch libraries and sixty-seven other distributing centers. It Is the ambition of librarian Rush to have at least one volume for every’ person In the city. Five librarians have left their mark in the evolution of the Indianapolis Public Library. They are: Charles Evans Albert B Yolm. Albert W Tyler, W DeM Hooper. Miss Eliza Oord- ■ Browning and Charles E Rush. Miss Browning, who Is now assist tilt librarian, directed the progress -f the library from 1592 to I j 17. when itusll succeeded her.

It is stated, discovered a regular route of smuggling drugs from Germany to Spain, tie-nee to France, thence to St Pierre Miquelon off New Foundland, and finally Into Canada and the United States. The international "dope fleet" is composed largely of French trawlers which sail from French ports, the notification said. Canada also notified the French, Spanish and German representatives on tho league's opium advisory commission. demanding that their governments stop the traffic and break up the “dope fleet.”

near the' close of the World War with a dozen boys, while some of the children have had musical training under operatic stars of Vienna and Prague,’ their native folk-songs are said to bo the best part of their program. FORMER SLAVE BURIED Jack Dishman Was Porter at MeyerKisor Bank Twenty Years. The funeral of Jack Dishman, colored, porter for the Meyer-Kiser Bank for twenty years and a slave before the Civil War, was held at his home, 619 N. West St„ today. Sol Meyer, president of the bank, paid this tribute: “By his unobtrusive modesty, uid quiet sense of humor, his never-falling sense of courtesy a*zd tact, as well as by conscientious performance of duty, this colored employe won the regard and admiration of all who knew him. The world has need of more men of the Jack Dishman type, men who can perform the tasks of which they are capable with dignity. In Jack's death a good man has gone to his reward.” Roadster Stolen A. H. Smith of Zionsville, Ind., told police today his roadster parked at Northwestern Ave. and Maple Rd. was stolen.

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CHARLES E. RUSH Rush became librarian of the Indianapolis public library in 1917. In t(p- last five years the number of library patrons has increased more than iOo per cent. Guided Indianapolis Library 25 Years

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ELIZA GORDON BROWNING From 1892 to 1917 Miss Browning directed the development of the Indiana pok public library. The opening of the present library building in 1917 was a tribute to the success of her administration.

REVENGE BELIEVED ORDER MOTIVE Police Hunt Gangsters as Girls’ Slayers, By I nitoti Press NEW YORK, April 7. —Believing revenge the motive In the brutal slaying in Staten Island of Mrs. Irene Blnndino, 21, and Bessie McMahon. 18, of Utica, N. Y., police today concentrated their efforts on a hunt for Italian gangsters. The women were stabbed and slashed to death some time Friday morning and their bodies carried by automobile to an unfrequented road and thrown out. Investigation has revealed that gangsters who killed Mrs. Blandino’s first husband eighteen months ago threatened to wreak further vengeance. Mrs. Blandino’s death is believed to be the fulfillment of this threat, while the killing of her companion was for the purpose of eliminating a possible Informer. Three men are being detained pending solution of the affair. They are James Blandino, husband of one of the two victims; Rosario de Lorenzo, an employe in Blandino’s barber shop, and Alfred Montepare. W. C. T. U. PLANS MEETING Young People's Branches to Hoar National Secretary. A mass meeting of young people's branches of the Marlon County W. C. T. U. will be held at 8 p. m. Wednesday at the United Brethren Church, Walnut St. and Park Ave. Mrs. Maude B. Perkins, national secretary of the Young People's Branch, will speak. Spencer Hansing will give a baritone solo: Mrs. E. B. Foster, a reading, and A. L. Hall, a whistling solo, accompanied by Miss Thelma Baker.

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ONE KILLED, SIX com Hi SERIES OE AUTO SPIELS Anderson Physician Dies When Machine Crashes Into Retaining Wall, One person was killed, six were injured and one was arrested as the result of six accidents in and near Indianapolis during the fifteen hours ending at 7 a. m. today. The dead: Dr. H. G. Fleming, 45, of 1107 N. Meridian St., Anderson. The injured: Howard Keller, 18, Cumberland, condition critical, Methodist Hospital. Ivan Ileidenreich, 32, of 1122 E. Michigan St. Slightly injured. Irwin Hostetler, 6, of 3944 Broadway; seriously injured. Dr. B. J. Larkins, 1733 N. Meridian St., not serious. Police Sergeant Ralph Dean, 1414 El Market St., slightly injured. Hits Retaining Wall Dr. Fleming died after his automobile crashed into a retaining wall on the Allisonville Rd., north of Allison-” ville, Friday afternoon. Dr. William A. Doeppers, deputy coroner, said death probably resulted from fracture of the skull. Two boys on bicycles discovered the accident. Dr. O. C. McFarland, Charles F. Roberts and Alexander Cox, all of Allisonvilie, Immediately went to the scene. They found Dr. Fleming on his knees at the side of the wrecked car. Dr. McFarland gave him a hypodermic injection, but Dr. Fleming died before It took effect. Traction Wrecks Sedan Kellar. a junior in the Cumberland High School, was in the Methodist Hospital today in a critical condition, but resting fairly easily, doctors said. He was taken there Friday night following serious injuries suffered when his sedan was demolished by a west-bound T. H., I. & E. interurban car one-half mile west of Cumberland, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kellar, reside. Witnesses say hls automobile stalled on the track. With him was Miss Emma Swinford, also of Cumberland, who escaped with slight injuries. Ileidenreich. a truck driver for the Banquet Ice Cream Company, 213 S. South St., narrowly escaped serious injury when his truck was struck by an inbound Monon passenger train at the Fifteenth St. crossing. Safety Gatos Not Down The safety gates at the crossing were not down. Charles Koisnieier, 2120 Ashland Ave., crossing watchman said. He said he rang the warning bell and started to lower the gates. The mechanism did not respond as quickly as usual, he said, and tho truck was on the track before the gates were down. Detectives today were searching for the driver of anew coupe which ran over Irwin Hostetler, 6. son of Stuart Hostetter, 3944 Broadway, at 4:40 p. m. Friday. The driver failed to stop, and escaped after a thrilling pursuit. The accident occurred in front of the boy's home. E. Allen. 831 Broadway, and C. A. Pickard, 1216 N. Oxford St., pursued the speeding coupe north through Broad Ripple. They were unable to obtain the license number.

Patrol and Coupe Collided When the police patrol collided with a coupe driven by Dr. B. J. Letkins, 1733 X. Meridian St., at Thirteenth and Alabama Sts., at 6:45 p. m. Friday, Dr. Larkins was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital with a severe scalp wound and bruises, and Sergeant Dean suffered a knee injury and bruises when thrown from the patrol. The coupe was hurled Into a street car pole. Lewis Marrine, IS, Beech Grove, was under arrest today charged with improper display of automobile licenses anti having no certificate of title. His car collided with one driven by Alonzo Marshall at Pearl and Alabama Sts. at 9 p. m. Friday. No one was hurt. EX-PASTOR BLAMES BOTH SIDES FOR K. K. K. STRIFE Editor of Bible .Magazine Speaks at I\. of C. LuncksfW. Speaking upon problems confront-, ing the American people today, the Rev. Gustave E. Hiller, D. D., former pastor of the New Jersey Street M. E. Church, and now editor of The Promise, a Bible magazine, declared they can be solved only by following the spirit of Christ, in a speech at the Knights of Columbus luncheon at the Spink-Arms. Among things mentioned as problems was the Ku-Klux Klan movement. Dr. Hiller said: "I cannot be a member of this organization because I consider Its u e hods contrary to the spirit of Christ. But I will tell you candidly, gentlemen, that both sides are to blame for the conditions by which this strife has been brought on.”