Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 285, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1923 — Page 1

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BATE MET COHBIW Decision Wiii Save Indiana Shippers $1,500,000 Yearly, PETITION REQUESTS CUT Railroads Lose Plea for Increase on Petroleum From Tulsa: shippers have been saved approximately $1,500,000 a year by a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission denying petitions, of railroads for increases in the freight rates on petroleum and petroleum products from the Tulsa field, the Indiana. State Chamber of Commerce announced today. The nine other parties, including chambers of commerce and shippers from Indiana and Michigan, protested the railroads' petition in hearings in St. Louis, Chicago and Washington last fall. The requested increase would havebeen from $6.60 a car load to sl9. The chamber has pending a petition for decrease In the present in cents-a-hundred-pounds rat-> from Tulsa to Indianapolis and other IToosier points. i Hearings upon this were held here several weeks ago. CAMPBELL TRIED . FOR OLD KILLING flifroit M?.n Charged With Slaying in 1910, Charged with firs: degree .murder In the death of Leonard P. Jeffries almost thirteen years ago, Charles Campbell of Detroit went on trial today in Criminal Court. It was al leged he struck Jeffrtes, a fellow workman, with a piece of concrete Oct. 6, 1910, and fled after Jeffries’ death. A Jury was obtained and testimony started at the morning session. Campbell was brought back to Indianapolis from Detroit two months ago. He wa.s arrested when it was alleged a Detroit policeman overheard him say ho had once killed a man in Indianapolis.

POSTOFFiCE WILL PUT IN CAFETERIA Eating Place to Be Installed in Basement. A cafeteria for Federal employes will be established in the basement of the postoffice within ninety days, officials of the local service council postofllue announced today. icles of incorporati(<ifor the Federal Cafeteria, with an authorized oupital stock of $5,000, were prepared by Dixon H. Bynum, assistant I'nited States district attorney. The stock, which has a par value of sl, will be issued only to Federal employes. Members of the board of directors will be Karl Stimpson, Robert Cordrey, Herman Kettler, Louis E. Frazeur. all members of the postofTlce force, and Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. NEW GARY TRIALS ASKED Defendants in liquor Case File Motions. Thirty-two of the fifty-five defendants in the Gary liquor conspiracy <mse convicted by a jury in Federal Court. March 31, have filed motions for new trials. Anion" them is Roswell O. Johnson, mayor of Gary. Today is the final dav for filing motions under a ruling- of Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger. Geiger will rule on the motions April £O. MAN ROBBED AT FUNERAL Watch and S7O Taken From Father of Dead Woman. While attending the funeral of his daughter. Mrs. Pearl Spangler. 603 N. Senate Ave., B. A. Dorris, Vincennes, was robbed of S7O In cash and a gold watch, he told police to

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ABOVE— LYNN ROBBINS, RUNNER-UP IN THE FIRST SECTIONAL MARBLE TOURNAMENT. MAKING A DIFFICULT SHOT. BELOW—ADRIAN GREENE, MARBLE CHAMPION OF THREE SCHOOLS, SHOWING HOW HE HOLDS HIS “IMMIE."

Midas Touch Returns to Hollywood —and With it Five-Figure Pay Checks

By l-’nited A'etrs LOS ANGELES. April 9. Prosperity has returned to Hollywood. The Midas touch which has been missing from studio land during the depression of the last two y-ears has suddenly returned, bringing with it the four and five-figure pay checks that have long been absent. A year ago moving picture actresses of star calibre were willing to act as bathing girls. Now every famous name is tied up on a long contract. The causes are two; One is the returning wave of industrial prosperity which bus brought back the golden How of nickels and dimes. The other is a change of heart on the part of the movie bosses toward their recent theory that the play Is the thing. A year ago movie producers decided to stop building up the repu-

WOMEN TO FORM CLUBS Democrats Make Plans for Next .State Campaign. Plans for the formation in Indiana of Democratic woman’s clubs were discussed by a committee of women meeting at Democratic State headquarters. Claypool Hotel, today. The clubs will take up the work of educating women voters. Members of the committee are Mrs. A. P. Flynn, Logansport; Mrs. Janies Riggs. Sullivan; Mrs. J. W. Gwinn, Rensselaer: Mrs. Harry McMullin, Aurora; Mi 33 Margaret O Connell, Wlnamac, and Miss Gertrude McHugh. Indianapolis, secretary of flio State committee.

Os Whom Do You Borrow When You Forget Your Carfare?

The woman etood on the back platform. When all but he had naid And eh- atood and etood and stood and stood. For her purse she had c-.lslaid. 4ND then some gallant (accent on the second syllable) smilingly -stopped forward and put a nickel at her disposal. She turned grateful eyes ‘oward the hero and went <>n into the car, awaiting her chance to tell some friend of “how terribly embarrassed I was.” Just what does a woman do when she discovers she has lost her puree

tations of stars and devote their energies toward the plot. They eliminated tho star. But after a few months’ experiment they found pictures without famous film players’ names didn’t pay as those with them did. Since then the Hollywood bosses have switched to the other ex treme. Active bidding by- producers for famous names has shot salaries up to unprecedented levels. Ramon Navaddo, who a year ago was looking for a job ns a Keystone ••op. last week closed a contract for $5,000 a week. A young star recently- famous in vampire roles but by no means a luminary of the first water also closed a contract for 52.000 a week. If salaries like these are being paid, it is evident that tho pay checks of real stars like the Talrnadges and Harold Lloyd must reach even the dreams of the press agents.

'COURTESY TRIP’ POPULAR C. of C. Plans Visit to Seven Illinois Cities April 18-20. Reservations for the Indianapolis wholesalers’ “courtesy trip’’ to seven Illinois cities April 18-20 are so numerous and varied the event will be an all-Indlannpo!!s trip, Chamber of Commer .o officials said today. Representatives of manufacturing concerns, banks. Investment houses, professional men and one from each Indianapolis newspaper will go. Reservations may be made with E. L. Ferguson, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce wholesale trade division, up to noon Saturday.

or her money, and has not a friend within miles? A policeman would seem the natural source of appeal. But officers say women seldom come to them In such Instances. Perhaps they are a bit afraid of the "big stick.” Sergeant Eugene Shipe, who is on duty at every downtown corner at some time, recalls only one instance of such a case. A woman came to him to report that her pocketbook had been stolen. He gave her carfare.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1923

Adrian Greene Confident He Will Win City Marble Crown, Adrian Greene, 13. of 19H W. Twenty-Seventh St., went back to his classes at school No. 11 today a hero. Other pupils gathered around him and asked him how he did It. The “it” was the winning of the first Times sectional marble tournament at School No. 44 Saturday, by which Adrian became champion of three schools. Nos. 41, 43 and 44, and earned the right to play m the final city championship game. Adrian Is confident ho will win the city chanipior, hip and the rignt to go to Atlantia City at the ex pense of The Times to play In the national championship game. Ho will compete In the city championship game against elev n other sectional champions still to be < hosen. Announcement will be made tomorrow of sectional games to bo hold at other school buildings next Saturday. ! ™oS Bishop Lecte Delivers Conference Sermon, By Times Spertal KOKOMO, Ind., April 9. —Art average of nearly $7 a member has been given missionary, educational, an 1 benevolent enterprises by the 92,81,4 members of the 453 congregations of the north Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Itov. O. ii. Croxall, Wabash, conference treasurer, reported today. A total of $610,308 has been received for this task, Rev. Croxall said, The North Indiana | conference is holding its annual coni ference here. “Jesus as tho Alpha and Omega" was tho subject of the conference sermon, Sunday, by Bishop Frederick D. Leete, Indianapolis. ALABAMA STREET RESIDENCE BURNS s2*|soo Blaze Threatens Other Homes in Neighborhood, j Sparks on the roof of the home of | Janies A. Bulger, 2625 N. Alabama St.., completely destroyed the roof and second story today. Loss Is estimated by the fire department at $2,500. Quick work by firemen headed off a chance of a neighborhood blaze for the fire communicated to tho homo of Walter Ammon, 2621 N. Alabama St., where, I it caused a damage to tho roof of j SIOO and to the home of A. C. ReyI nolds, 2621 N. Alabama St., causing i roof damage of $l5O. LOCAL MAN IS NAMED State Finance Companies Elect New President. Owen J. Conrad, president of the Continental Finance and Securities Company of Indianapolis, Is tho new president of the Indiana Association of Finance Companies. 110 succeeds Walter Fisher. Conrad was one of the founders of the Indiana association, whisji was the first organization of its kind in the United States.

“I suppose they know it is pretty hard to get money out of a policeman,” Shine suggested. So that lots tho policemen out. A woman was seen to rush into the Haag drug store at T lllnols and Kentucky Ave. and give a clerk a nickel she said she had borrowed some time before when she had lost her pocketbook. That puts the drug etores on tho list of providers of carfare for financially embarrassed damsels. And, of course, a mere acquaintance

NEW FLYING SKIP OF ARMY BIDS INDIANAPOLIS “HOWDY”

'Blimp* Makes Stop at Ft, Harrison for Gas and Oil, Then Resumes Journey, BALLOON ON FIRST TRIP Goes From Ohio to Illinois — Passes Low Over City as Crowds Crane Necks, After a three-hour stop at Schoen Field. Ft. Benjamin Harrison, to replenish gas and oil supplies and repair an exhaust. pipe brace broken in flight, the newly built TC-1, the Army’s largest non-rigid dirigible balloon, left the field at noon today on the final leg of its flight! from Wingfoot Lake station, 1 Akron, 0., where it was built, to Scott Field, Belleville, lU. Thousand*, crowd.ug down*, wn • strocta at the bin-:i hour, attracted I by the i trr of th.) huge blimp’s motors, craned their necks to sea the silver-colored craft, flying the Stais • airship is nearly a block long. Tho TC-1 arrived over Schoen field at 9:15 a. in. After a ten-minute battle In which several times workers were swept from their feet by the tremendous pulling power of tho great g.,.s bag, sixty soldiers succeeded in bringing ts,• - dirigible to a lauding. Biig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman, commanding officer at the fort, banned fill smoking on tho field. The craft left the Akron field at 3:15 a. in. and averaged forty miles an hour. It was in common sos Lieut Lly do Kunlz. In tho crew %vcro Lieut. F. W. McKe, , Lieut. James i thick, Sergt. fdln Brown, and Sergt. i Hurry Barnes. The Tt’-l is the first of three ships i of its typo to b - built for tho Army. I It Is designed to u- • helium or hy 1 drogen. it is 1:15 feet long, with "r i gas capacity of 2<>, oo„ cubic feet I It has two t.-o hor ■■ j.-av-'r i-iotor-wlth t maximum speed . * sixty miles I ati hour and a cruising radius of .1,630 tulles. It* / 1 r'lude* a radio outfit and mb e.trrjlng >l- - • *t * Squad* of s -M:. r* maintained the blimp in position by r..j ■> with dis firulty. A: tho signal of officers, th->| ropes were let r>. and the balloon floated upward. At a heh-1,; of 100 j feet the motors were speeded, tho dirigible turned southward, circled over tho flying field and then headed southwest toward Indianapolis. Two hundred gallons of gasoline were poured In the tanks ~f the ! f 1 1 at Ft. Harrison Other minor! adjustments woro mad". OKLAHOMA CITY MAYOR CAVG3TS A LA SHANK Western Fxecullve Drives Street <ai and Directs Traffic. Hu t’nited Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 9 —Mayor O. A Cargill, who rose from street cur motorman to mayor, opened j his Inaugural corein, nles today l>y : driving a street car through the main | streets. Cargill also planned to dir, et traf j fle for fifteen minutes on tie'-busiest ! downtown street corner. EVANSVILLE MAN PIES RESULT OF AUTO CRASH Two Olliers Seriously Injured in Street Crossing Accident. By T’nltci! I’rtgi EVANSVILLE. 1 ltd.. April 9.—-Pearl ' Mays died early today from Injuries Buffered when his automobile crashed into an Illinois Cential train at a street crossing Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Measer Jr., who wore riding with Mays, wore soriou: ly injured in the crash. Mrs. Mario Wind tiers, a fourth member of tho party-, j escuped with minor injuries. GET YOUR NAMES IN FOR BASEBALL PARADE All firms that are p’anning on or. ! terlng a float iti the opening day pa-! rado v.’hen Indian ipolis and Louisvlllo start the Ani'-rican Association baseball season are r siuost.eij to send their names to the particle committee In care of the Chamber of Commerce, according to an announcement today by Wallace O. Lee, chairman of tho committee. The street parade, in which the players of the two teams i Wijl participate, is to precede the I opening game of the 1923 season ati Washington Bark oil Thursday, I April 19.

looks liko tho boat of friends if one meets him under such circumstances. A clerk whom a woman may have been patronizing regularly may get on the list of the woman’s speaking acquaintances. by help at such a moment. All other sources failing, few women would not tuke a chance, get on a street car, and hope that not all the men are so much engrossed in their pax'ers that they cannot see a woman in distress. You have seen them—perhaps you have yelped tliqm.

Entered as Seeond-class Matter at Postofflee, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

.. THIS IS TIIE TC-1, LARGEST NON RIGID AIRSHIP EVER BUILT IN AMERICA, WHICH HAS BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE GOVERNMENT AIR SERVICE FOR USE AS A TRAINING SHIP AT SCOTT FIELD. BELLEVILLE, ILL. IT CARRIES 200,600 CUBIC FEET OF HYDROGEN OR HELIUM GAS. THE SHIP WAS AT FT. BENJAMIN HARRISON FOR A STOPOVER TODAY.

HARDING, BACK AT DESK, TAKES DP BUSINESS GRIND Many Important Problems Face Decision of President, flu Vnitnl I’rtsi WASHINGTON. April 9. —Back in ho White House after five weeks of rc-st in the South, President Harding was ut his desk early this morning. Before 10 o’clock the President was in conference with Secretary of State liu.-.iu-e. Later he had appointments with Secretary Hoover and Senators Dapper and Curtis. It is understood that Capper and Curtis will discuss the appointment of the dirt farmer representative on the Federal reserve board. H I ations are the sugar price problem will „ the first to force itself Ufion the attention of the executive.

MOTHER-IN-LAW IS WITNESS ‘You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet,' Title of Tableau, Mrs. Matilda Daniels. 1021 W. Thirtieth Si., was more than a willing witness 1;. Superior Court where her 1002 V. Thirty-Third St., sought a divorce from Perry W. Daniels today. "That’s all. Mrs. Daniels.” said both lawyers, after she had told of what she thought "short comings" of the plaintiff. V "'Well, that’s not all," she replied. "In fact. It’s not half of what. I do know,” she replied. "That’s all. Madam," said the Judge. “And one time she got him down right on the cellar door—” The combined efforts of Judge and lawyers finally persuaded Mrs. Darnels that they had heard'enough. "Divorce for the plaintiff," said Judge Miller, iOHH DEE SEEKING OFFICE * ‘Not Candidate for G, 0, P, Chairmanship, 1 He Says, “I nin not a candidate for State chairman.” John Moorman of ivnox, most-mentioned “possibility" as successor to Lawrence Lyons, Republican State chairman, in event of the latter’s resignation, r aid today . “1 just arrived In tho city and I have not seen anybody,’’ he said. "I have been told the papers have mentioned my name." Moorman said he was In Indianapolis with Warden Fogarty of tho Indiana State prison to discuss a proposal by the highway commission that the Dunes highway be run through the prison property. Moorman Is a member of tho board of the prison. Moorman is eai,l to be the choice of Governor McCray for chairman and it is said he probably would bo acceptable. to other factions. He was close to the administration during the Legislature. 110 said he would pe in the city several days.

Rub Your Eyes Who has lost a sheep, a live, wool-covered, bleating sheep? Police say the owner can recover the animal from C. A. Btdford, 556 Fletcher Ave., who said ho saw an automobile run into it at New Jersey and Market Sts. Sunday. Belford took the wanderer home and notified the officers.

A Dare Lieut. F. W. McKee of Anderson, Ind., pilot of the Army' dirigible TC-1, today* defied tho dare of a dream. He told Ft. Benjamin officers he dreamed tho other night the huge airship crashed into the Soldiers' and Sailors’ Monument as it sailed over Indianapolis. He determined to prove he was not superstitious. When the craft left Schoen Field today after a brief stop, he sent it directly over the monument, flying very low-. The dream failed to materialize.

NEW DANCE RECORD IS ‘IN THE MAKING’ Woman Going Strong, After Tripping for 40 Hours and 35 Minutes. Hu Vflitcd i'rrgg NEW YORK, April 9. —Having danced continuously for forty hours and thirty five minutes, thereby breaking all long-distance records. Miss Alma Cummings of San -Antonio, Texas, was still going strong at nopn with the intention of keeping on until she established a record of fifty hours. CONFEDERATE VETERANS MOVE ON NEW ORLEANS Thirty-Third Reunion Opens in Crescent City Wednesday. IIU l’fitted Press NEW ORLEANS, La„ April 9. With tho streets already dotted with faded,uniforms of the “Bears” of the fO's every train coming into New Orleans today brought delegates to ihe thirty-third reunion of the Confederate Veterans, which opens here Wednesday. The veterans gathering will be addressed by- Alvin M. Owsley, national commander of the American Legion. ‘HUMAN FLY’ PLANS TO CLIMB HOTEL LINCOLN Veterans of Foreign Wars Hriri" .Tacit Williams to Ciry. Jack Williams, “a human fly,” announces that ho will scale the side of the I,incoin Hotel, Saturdays, 2:30 p. m. Williams began his career as a “fly" when he climbed the Hotel Rose, in Cleveland and rescued a woman dur ; inc a fire. The woman now is his wife. This is Williams’ eleventh season in scaling buildings nmi monuments. He has never been in tin accident. He is hero under auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Members of the organization will take a collection among spectators at the climbing feat.

WEATHER SLOWS COURT Veniremen Have Minds on Spring Farm Work. Spring farm work threatened to tie up a law suit today in Superior Court, room 1, v hen all available excuses to avoid jury duty were made by a venire of fifty men drawn to try a suit on contract. “Judge, this man says he doesn’t believe he qpn listen to the evidence because he will be thinking of all that farm work piling up out home,” complained one attorney to Judge James M. Leathers. "Did you say that, and did you mean it?” asked the judge, with a glare, hi., patience nearly gone from watching one after the other of the fifty vanish. “Well, I’ve changed my mind, judge,” replied the talesman. The Jury finally was accepted with two partially deaf men filling out the ranks. JUST ONE MORE SIGN .Mayor Wants Two New Fords to Chase Spring Speeders. As another sign of spring, Mayor Shank today ordered Jesse E. Miller, city purchasing agent to buy two new Fords immediately for use in chasing speeders. "We want to catch these birds before they get a good start the mayor said. “They’re always out at tho first signs of good weather.” Frankfort Man \ppoinred Appointment of Joseph W. Brown of Frankfort as deputy collector in the income tax department of the Indianapolis office, was mnounceil dj M. Bert Thurman, collector tornal revenue, today. He will siJjrT Miss Hazel B. Freeman, rcs ih jfßß

Forecast FAIR tonight and -Tuesday, with rising temperature tomorrow.

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ARMED RESERVES SENT TO OPENING OF IMA TRIAL Case in Which Four Were Held Here Begins in West Virginia, With heavily-armed police reserves in the courtroom, trial of the West Virginia Black Hand case, in which two men and two women „ were arrested in Indianapolis, opened today at Clarksburg, West Virginia. The reserves were rushed to Clarksburg following complaint of Frank Cavulle. star State witness, that hla life had been threatened if he testified. Eleven alleged members of the “crime trust” charged by authorities with responsibility for a score of murders ar.d other acts of violence, are being tried for the murder of James I’apara, wealthy West Virginia 1 merchant. The four arrested here: Sebastino l Muratore. alias Joe Faerri, 41; Tonelle j Ren:nr,do. 29; Laura. Agues Edvards, I. and Mary Norman. 21. They- were | taken in a raid at 302 E. South St., on information received from Clarksburg authorities.

MONET IS RAISED FOR NEWCHIiRCH More Than Enough Obtained by Calvary Congregations, A church paid for before work starts on the structure is the accomplishment of the congregation of the Cal* vary Baptist Church at Roosevelt Ave., and Stewart St. Yesterday a total of $6,000 in cash was raised and more than $35,000 In pledges received. This more than pays for the proposed $40,00 Ochurch building. The present church structure win be moved to the rear of the site and will be used for the Sunday school The new parts will be used as the auditorium. Work will begin about June 1. the Rev. C. Wilhelm announced today. THRIFTHUNCHIS WfSLAEEST Suggestion Is Welcomed by Controller Hogue, “Come here, Joe, I've got an Idea to rave the city some money,” Mayor Shank said today, addressing Joseph L. Hogue, city controller. "Say, that’s the first time I've heard anything like that in months, let’s hear it,” Hogue answered. “All I hear is somebody's idea how to money for something. “Somsr ol thtot, t.lings wouldn’t t run the way they are if these fellows had to pay out of their own pocket,” Hogue went on. Then tho major proposed that Inspection fore- sos the street cleaning and unimproved street repair departments be coinbii.f.d because their duties overlap. The plan will be tried and if successful anew inspection department will bo sought by ordinance. Car and Owner .Missing Glenn Barnett, 71b N. Capitol Ave., ook his new flivver out Saturday. His mother, Mrs. Mary Brown, reported to police today that since that time nothing had been heard from either.

A REAL LOME “There’s no place like home”— - specially if you own it. Indianapolis real estate dealers are ranking home ownership most attractive right now by advertising splendid values in home sites and homes. Read their a&e in the “fteai Estate” columns of The limes and investigate.