Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35 —NUMBER 289

DEBATE ON K. K. HALTED BY MASKERS

Shot Fired by One of Four — Butler Officials See Prank, Butler University authorities were Investigating today to determine circumstances surrounding the appearance of four masked figures, one of them armed with a revolver, who broke up a debate on the Ku-Klux Klan at the school Thursday night. An effort was being made to determine whether the affair was a prank arranged by students. College authorities were convinced this was the case. President Bobert J. Aley of the luniversity received a letter Thursday morning warning him that the debate on "Resolved, That the Existence of the Ku-Klux Klan is Justifiable" should not be held. The letter was signed "Butler Chapter of the Ku-Klux Klan.” Went Right Ahead The Thllokurian I.lterary Society, which nad arranged the debate, decided to hold it, despite the warning. Gerritt Dapes. a student, was speaking on the affirmative side when there was a knock at the door and it was opened by a masked figure carrying a revolver. Three other masked figures stood In the corridor. Dapes and Russell Richardson, who was to speak on the negative side, were told in strong ' language they should not talk about things concerning which they knew nothing, students who were present said. Shot Is Fired The masked figures then went down the stairway to the campus, where a shot was fired, apparently in the air, students said. Students attending the debate rushed down the stairs and saw an automobile speeding away. The debate was not resumed. Students waited for possible return of the visitors. They did not appear.

‘TOLERANCE' SAYS ED JACKSON IS MERGE KLAN Alleged Telegram From ‘Old Man,’ Referring to Lyons, Is Cited. Ed Jackson, secretary of State, is a member of the Ku-Klux Kian, "Tolerance,” an anti-Klan publication, said today. The paper published what was purported to be a telegram addressed to Jackson from Columbus, Ohio, and signed "The Old Man," In reference to the resignation of Lawrence Lyons as Republican State chairman. The purported telegram read in part: "Permit no selection to be made and permit no one to be named to succeed Lyons until I have had an opportunity to confer with you. See that Lyons hands in his resignation at earliest possible moment so it will be unnecessary to further embarass him by forcing same. His position is intolerable. We do not seek to hit him when he down, but if he forces us we will tell the whole truth about why he betraye his solemn trust and why ho betrayed the confidence of life-long frineds In gentlemen's agreement of honor to block Clyde Wall's appointment.” Walb. a member of the Republican State committee, has been mentioned as successor to Lyons. Efforts made to reach Jackson today were unavailing. At his office it was said he had left with a number of men. BOMBS HERALD FIERY CROSS Firemen Extinguish Flames Following Two Explosions. Two sharp explosions aroused persons living in the neighborhood of Park Ave. and Twenty-Seventh St., at 10 p. m. Thursday night, accord ing to police reports today. A red glare caused some to believe a house was- burning, but they discovered a large fiery cross erected in a vacant lot. The cross was a mass of flames. The fire department was called, but when No. 22 company arrived, the fire had almost burned out on the cross. Firemen put out flames that were destroying the grass. Firemen believe the explosions were caused by bombs set off to attract attention. Summer Colony Planned Anew summer colony four miles north of Noblesville Is being planned by the Rlverwood Lot Owners Association, just Incorporated. The tract contains 270 lots for summer cottages. The plans include a bathing beach and playground. Directors of the company are Alexander R. Holliday. Benjamin D. Hitz. Sam B. Mott and Miss Gertrude Steffen.

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Photos of Indiana Girls Are Entered in International Show

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ELIZABETH YENNE, (ABOVE) AND CRYSTAL COOPER.

These photographs of Miss Elizabeth Yenne, Washington. Ind., Junior in De Pauw University, and Miss Crystal Cooper, Greencastle High School girl, will be among works of art exhibited in the Inter-

AGATE ARTISTS SET FOR SECOND BATTLE Two Sectional Marble Tourneys to Be Staged Saturday at Beech Grove and No, 6 Schools,

Everything is up to the weatherman for the second series of elimination contests in The Indianapolis Times city marble tournament Saturday. Games will be held at two schoo) buildings at 10 a. m. unless rain prevents them. Pupils of the Beech Grove school who are under 15 and who will not GRAY CONVENTION ENDS Wf PARADE Louisville Man Heads Confederate Veterans. By United Prett NEW ORLEANS, La.. April 13.—A four-mile parade of Confederate veterans was to wind up the thirty-third annual encampment of the old soldiers here today. Automobiles have been provided for the 10,000 delegates. Gen. William B. Halderman. Louisville, Ky., is the new commander in chief of the Confederate veterans. Haldeman was elected at the final business meeting of the reunion yesterday. Col. W. MacDonald Lee. Virginia, was re-elected commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Memphis. Tenn., was selected for next year’s meeting place. ‘ARSENIC’ JURY STILL DELIBERATING VERDICT Woman Screams When Attorney Asks Death Penalty. By United Preet CHICAGO. April 13.—The jury deliberating the case of Mrs. Nellie Stermer ICoulik. charged with poisoning her first husband, W. Stermer. in connection with alleged ‘‘arsenic parties," was reported to stand 7 to 6 for conviction as it resumed deliberations today. The case went to tile Jury late yesterday. Mrs. Koulik screamed when prosecuting attorney* asked that she be strengths death penalty.

national Photograph Arts and Crafts exhibition at New York; April 21-28. Hillary G. Bailey, Greencastle photographer. who made the photographs will be the only Hoosier exhibitor.

be 15 before June 15 will play at the Beech Grove school. The other game will be at Bchool No. 6. Pupils attending Schools 6, 12, 22. 25, 8. Nlanual Training High School and Sacred Heart School who are under 15 and will not be 15 before June 15 will play In this game. The winner of each sectional contest will compete for the city championship. One sectional already has been held. Adrian Greene of School 41 won. Other sectional games will be held each Saturday morning. The winner of the city championship will be sent to Atlantic City with his or her father or mother, all expenses paid by The Times, to play in the national tournament. The city champion also will be given a fine bicycle. Don't fall to be on the spot for the games Saturday. 250 REQUESTS FOR GARDENS FILLED Association in City Hall to Furnish Free Seed, The Patriotic Gardeners’ Association have filled requests for more than 250 vacant lots to be used as gardens since their office was opened in the city hall the first of the week. Miesse, secretary, said today. According to Miesse, it is expected that more than 1,000 lots will be furnished by the association this season. Lots are still available at the county workhouse, Twenty-First St. and Northwestern Ave. The association will furnish free garden and vegetable seed to all persons w-ho call Saturday morning In the basement of the city hall. London Strike Averted By United Pre* LONDON, April 13— Lockout of 600,000 workers in the building trades, scheduled for tomorrow, was averted when employers and union Representatives agreed today to arbitrate their differences.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923

RUHR WANTS PEACE Ebert Assails Procedure of French Army

By CARL D. GROAT (Copyright, 191S, by United Press) (Copyright in Canada) BERLIN, April 13.—“ At any moment wc arc ready for a solution which guarantees unity in the land of our fathers and the freedom of German labor under a just peace reached by an honest, free understanding from nation. “The unfettered German worker is willing to bear all burdens compatible with his capacity and honestly to assume a due share in the so bitterly needed reconstruction of the world’s sick economy. “But under threatening of murder weapons such

FORD FRIENDS ASK DEALERS TO BOOM POLITICAL DREAM | Local Agents Urged to Donate to Campaign Fund —State Body Under Way, Efforts to collect a large campaign fund to make Henry Ford the Democratic nominee for President were under way today. I.ocal Ford dealers received urgent telegrams from cam paign headquarters at Chicago asking them to contribute. With dealers as a nucleus, friends of Ford expect to organize every State and every precinct in every State be fore the end of the year, letters sent j out from the Chicago headquarters j indicate. State Organi/at ion I-ooms It was stated a meeting to form a State committee will be held in j Indianapolis soon. I Each Ford dealer has been offered a place on the State committee. "We are rapidly building a Ford nr- | ganization in every precinct in Chi 1 cago for the furtherance of Henry Ford of Detroit for the presidency." lefers to dealers say. "Plans are under way for the opening of State headquarters in every State, and to j complete an organization in every ! precinct in each State. Tendered Committee Part "Ts you are in favor of the i candidacy of Mr. Ford, we will up predate your acceptance of a place on the campaign committee. We are not I making public the names of persons | who accept until there is a completed j committee in the State.” Organization Democrats are looking with some alarm on the Ford candidacy. They fear that if Ford does not obtain the nomination, he will at tempt to start a third party

PRICE OF CUBAN RAW SUGAR SOARS Two Cargoes of 12,000 Tons Sold at 6 Cents, By United Preee NEW YORK. April 13. Cuban raw sugar was boosted to anew high price for the year today. Two cargoes totalling 12,000 tons were sold at 6 cents F. O. 8., Cuba for June shipment, which is equivalent ‘.o about 6', g cents cost and freight to New- York. This development followed .the i rrival of Acting Attorney General A. T. Seymour to investigate sugar gambling at the suggestion of President, Harding. CABINET DISCUSSES SUGAR New Trice Record Causes President to Call Meeting. By United Preen WASHINGTON. April 13—Presl dent Harding and his Cabinet today took up the sugar situation as New York dispatches tojld of anew high price level for Cuban raw sugar. Acting Attorney General Seymour, returning from a hasty conference with Attorney Hayward, other oftl cials, took with him to the Cabinet, meeting a mass of data on the sugar investigation that the Justice Department has been asking. DEATH CALLS MRS. SOPHIE WAMBSGANSS Funeral Services Will Be Held Monday Afternoon. Funeral services for Mrs. Sophie Wambsgansß, 65, who died suddenly of apoplexy Thursday right at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Fechtman, 1240 Wright St., wilj he held Monday at 2 p. m. at the St. Paul s Lutheran Church. Mrs. Wambsganss was the widow of the Rev. Frederick Wambsganss, who died about six weeks ago. She was active church and community worker. She Is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Fetchman; a son, the Rev. Louis Wambsganss ot Five Points, Ind., and a brother, the Rev. Ernst Wersetman, of Chicago. Burial will oe In the Lutheran cemetery.

Dance Record Again Smashed

I Ohio. April 12.—" I'm ' 1,1 \ feeling tire.” said Miss Helene Mayr, * , - vl new world champion endurance dancer • when she awakened this morning at I m. her usual hour. | m\ But she went back for more sleep. 1 She needed it, she said, after dancing DU* continuously fifty two hours and I I A eleven minutes. • I ' . p|>™| The dancer was In good physical JjL " —\' U. A condition, however, and a physician declared ehe could have gone on inA definitely if it had been necessary. As to challengers of her record, * jfflr Helene says she will dance sixty to seventy five hours if necessary.

EVANS STRIKES AT RACE BOOKMAKING Prosecutor Asks Postal Telegraph Company to Drop Wire Service to Distributor,

Prosecutor William P. Evans today announced that in an effort to pre vent "bookmaking” on races and baseball games he had asked the Postal Telegraph Company to stop supplying race results to a man suspected of supplying information to bookmakers. He said the company complied. PRIZES IN BALLOON RACE TOTAL 13,0 M Chamber of Commerce to Have Charge of Event, B. Russell Shaw of Washington, chairman of thvNational Aeronautic Association, arranged to return to Washnigton today after making plans for the national balloon race at the Speedway July 4. Prizes offered by the Chamber of Commerce for the race. In which three racers will be chosen to enter the international ballcon race In Belgium In September, probably will be SI,OOO, SBOO, S6OO, S3OO, S2OO and SIOO. The Citizens Gas Company is working out ways to supply the balloons with 1,250.000 cubic feet of gas, the amount required for sixteen bags. Albert Bond Lambert of St. Louis, multi-millionaire balloonist, will be referee. Editors Invite Harding President Harding has been invited to speak at the summer meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at South Bend. The date wljl be set to comply with the wishes of the President If he accepts the invitation, In connection with his proposed tour of the country. Otherwise it will be held Juna f'-S.

unfettered German worker cannot now and never can develop.” President Friederich Ebert, in an exclusive interview—thus repeated Germany’s expressed willingness for peace. He coupled it, however, with a bitter denunciation of French procedure in the Ruhr, where he declared black Africans with loaded carbines and drawn sabres had driven several hundred workers and officials with their wives and children from the dearly beloved homes, sometimes destroying their goods in the manner of vandals, simply because the people showed fidelitv to their fatherland.

By United Prrss CLEVELAND. Ohio. April 13.—" I'm feeling lire," said Miss Helene Mayer, new world champion endurance dancer when she awakened this morning at her usual hour. But she went back for more sleep. Fhe needed it, she said, after dancing continuously fifty two hours and eleven minutes The dancer was in good physical condition, however, and a physician declared elie could have gone on indefinitely if It had been necessary. As to challengers of her record, Helene says she will dance sixty to seventy five hours if necessary.

Investigation by Claude M. Worley, Criminal Court Investigator, led to the move. The Western Union Telegraph Co.has been asked to discontinue baseball ticker service to poolrooms and cigar stores, but an answer has not been tecelved. Evans said. Lawrence B. Davis, an attorney for the Postal, said: "When Mr. Evans told us that the results were used by some bookmakrrs and botters, the representatives of the company promised to cooperate In an effort to check illegitimate use of this Information. The Postal Telegraph Cable Company is not going to be a party to anything wrong. We don't know what’s going over the wire. We ought not have a town with that sort of thing going on in it, for when a boy starts gambling on lhe outcome of contests, he will learn to steal, and we don't want that In Indianapolis." PLACED ON PROBATION Rlnier Gives Irene Negley Chance to Find New Idfe. An opportunity to remold her career was given Irene Negley, 20, Lawrence, Ind., by Fro Tem. George Rinier today. He placed her on probation !n the home of her sister, Mrs. E. O. Welch, of Lawrence. Six weeks ago Miss Negley was arrested after detectives said they caught her leaving restaurants without paying her cheek. Later It was learned, officers said, that she left her old hat in a downtown store and walked out with anew S3O one. Coal Rate Hearing Postponed Hearing of the case of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce against twenty-nine railroads operating In Indiana, asking for Investigation of coal rateß and an equitable reduction, has been postponed from April 18, the date originally ret, until May 15, the public service commission announced todty.

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Friday i Watch i -.-*1 Your the 13th 1 step!

BELIEVE IN HUNCH? By United Press BOWIE, RACE TRACK. Md.— "Friday XIII” runs in the first race today. The horse has never won. LUCK ANYWAY By I fitted Press NEW YORK, Refusing to sit down at a table at which he would have the thirteenth seat Richard Carver left a restaurant and was struck by a taxi before he had gone a block. DON’T MEAN NOTHIN’ TERRE HAUTE—Egyptian super stition and Friday the thirteenth mean nothing to the "six society syncopators,” a negro organization. "Mysteria,” the "intial King Tut ball,” will be staged under their auspices tonight. UNLUCKY FOR ROOMER By I tiilrd Press COLUMBUS. Ohio.—When Frank Miller of Dennison awakened in Room 13 a? the Volunteers of America Hotel today he found someone had strewn his clothes about the room and left with $l6O and a watch. BAD DAY TO BET It was tho wrong day to make a wager, however innocent, a widely known minister admitted. He bet his wife the sodas the rest of this year that the name under a picture in Thursday's Indianapolis Times jvas wrong. He came down to The Times office to check up. He found he was wrong. GLOOM FOR PRISONER "Eighteen months’ Oh boy! Ah might have knowed ah'd got stung on Friday the thirteenth." sadly soliloquized Marshall Martin, colored of Chicago, as he ..alked out of the chambers of Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today. Martin was sentenced to eighteen months In the Federal Prison at Atlanta. Ga., on a charge of transporting 352 grains of cocaine from Louisville to Indianapolis. CREDITORS SUFFER City Controller Joseph L. Hogue says that Friday the 13th, is unlucky for creditors. "Hello, hello, yes this is the city controller,” Hogue answered the telephone. "What? Can't hear you—oh you want your money”’ "Say. this city hasn't got any money, we haven’t got any taxes yet. I Tes, I’ll pay you the first one about the last of June.”

HELP! MAD DOG! Motor Police Tom Reidy and Mike Griffen. answered a “mad dog" call from Mrs. Lydia Tague. 607 Lord St. Tom —Mike, Its Friday the Thirteenth. You kill the dog. Mike —Nope, not me. Mrs. Tague—What! Kill my dog! Alt I want yon to do is move him upstairs. He’ll be more comfortable. One of the cops carried the collie up. but which one. remains a mystery. Both accuse the other. ROMANCE GETS BLOW A girl, evidently a clerk, and a young man were standing In a doorway at Goldstein Bros, department store, Washington and Delaware Sts., today. This conversation was overheard: She—Why aren’t you working today? He —Who? Me? Work on Friday the Thirteenth? Never. She-—Pooh! I don’t believe in superstitions. And she swept on into the store, leaving her friend to face the dangers of the day alone. FISHERMAN'S LUCK Tough luck in the shape of chilly rain attended the annual spring fishing trip of the county commissioners today. Harry Tutewiler and Albert Hoffman, Republican members accompanied by John Carlisle, chief clerk and two gravel road men, set out for Mohawk, Hancock County, to lure the finny victims with some choice minnows from Hoffman’s farm. "We might have known it would rain, being Friday the thirteenth,” said Tutewiler. MUNCIE DRUGGISTS WARNED BY POLICE l’e of Alcohol Causing Blindness, Police Report. By United Preee MUNCIE. Ind., April 13. —Local police have asked druggists to exercise care In the sale of denatured alcohol. They have cautioned the druggists especially against selling it to persons suspected of using it as a beverage. Physicians say severed cases of partial blindness have been reported)

Forecast UNSETTLED tonight and Saturday. Probably rain, followed by clearing and cooler Saturday night.

Reviewing the French course, especially the Easter Saturday “blood hath at Ivrupps,” the president sarcastically declared: “All that occurred in the name of a peaceful, purely economic engineer mission, which had the purpose of speeding up Germany’s deliveries. “I believe the American people, accustomed to dealing with sober economic realities, scarcely need to have more told them to bring clearly before their eyes the whole fearful nonsense of such a ‘reparations policy.’ (Continued on Tage 13)

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MAN KILLED BY OFFICER IN BATTLE Vice Crusader Permits Himself to Be Lured to Room on Promise of Whisky, Asa climax of a cleanup campaign being conducted by the' police to rid the city of men and women who halt strangers on the streets, Joe Willington, 38, colored, died of a bullet wound early today at the city hospital. Willington was shot by Patrolman Thomas whom he had invited to a room in the rear of the Athens cate at 33 W. Maryland St., the officer said. Attempts Escape When informed by Ruse he was under arrest. Willington pushed Ruse back ">n a bed and started to run from the room. Willington ran to the kitchen, and picked up a meat cleaver shouting, “I’ll kill you," Ruse alleged. Ruse tried to open a rear door. It was locked. Unable to get his revolver out he backed into a little room, warning the colored man he would shoot. Willington, it is alleged, failed to heed the warning and tried to hit Ruse again with the meat cleaver. One Shot Effective Ruse fired one shot. A curtain caught fire. The bullet passed through Willington’s right hand and entered his breast. The meat cleaver j cut a hole in the curtain. Ruse put cut the fire and started to pursue the colored maxi. At that instant Lieut. Louis Johnson, and Sergt. Victor Houston entered the kitchen. Patrolman Ruse, who has been a member of the police clean-up squad i has on other occasions permitted him- ! self to be lured by both men and women to rooms where he made ag- ! rests. "While on this kind of work he sat on the Statehouse curbing Thursday night. A colored man later i identified as Willington sat down near him. Invifed to Room The colored man is said to suggested that they go to his room where he had some whisky. He also Is alleged to have made other suggestions. The policeman said he would go to where liquor could be had and the two men walked south on Capitol Ave. and east on Maryland St. There they entered the room. Ruse flashed his badge when offered whisky and informed his “host" that he was under arrest. After Willington had been sent to I the city hospital, police searched the i room and found a one-gallon whisky • still, a tin bucket containing coils, a half pint bottle of whisky, a bottle I partly tu}\ of white mule, many empty j bottles and a large butcher knife. Isley Trial Continued Trial of Opal Isley. 17, on four affidavits charging her with delinquency was continued today in Juvenile Court by Judge Frank J. Lahr. She is charged with attempting to aid Cecil "Blondy” Johnson, 18, confessed participant in the robbery ol’ the Alert, lnd.. State Bank last May of $45,000 in bonds, to escape by delivering him six hack saws Um county jail.

THE “WANT AD” CLEARING HOUSE— In attics, in cellars, in barns, hi any one of the many places in which articles collect —almost every one has some articles of no use to them which someone else would he glad to buy. It may be a refrigerator, garden tools, a lawn mower, a baby carriage, or furniture. Whatever it is you can usually find a ready market by placing a “Sale —Miscellaneous” ad In the "Want Ad” columns of The Times. Just call Main 350 Q and a courteous ad-talker will assist you tn wording your ad.