Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 290

SUGAR GAMBLERS BOOST PRICES AGAIN—GROCER AND YOU ARE VICTIMS

Sugar prices in Indianapolis today were the highest since 1920. Cane sugar was quoted retail at from 9% to 12 cents a pound. The lowest price was considerable below cost, dealers preferring to stand a loss to increasing the charge. “A few gamblers in New York” were blamed by L. A\ Jackson, head of the Standard Grocery- Company, for the high prices. “Are prices going higher?” he was asked. “If I knew what that crowd would do I would get out

Just a Day in Dry Indiana Policeman Alleges Bribery Effort Another Officer Fires at Fugitive From Booze Car —Gary Places Ordered Closed,

A cash bribe of $25 was offered Police Sergeant Ed Helm by William Green, 39, colored. In an effort to prevent arrest of himself and ten other colored men in a raid at his dry beer saloon, 4011* W. North St.. FMday night, it was charged In city court today. Helm said this conversation took place after a bucket of white mule had been found: “Fix Tilings Fp” Green —Sarge, can't we flx things np? Helm—How’s that? “Well, I’ve only been going four or five days.’* “What do you mean?” “Here’s $25.” * Helm said he told Green to ‘wait a minute.” Helm Instructed Patrolman Hubbard, who. with Patrolman Fogarty, aided In the raid, to watch. Hubbard Is Witness Green, the sergeant said, led him to an adjoining room and counted out nineteen $1 bills, a $5 bill and a silver dollar. As he handed the money to

Judge Anderson Threatens to “Shut Up Whole Town” as He Orders Gary Blind Tigers Closed

"I’ll shut up the whole town of Gary If we cannot stop liquor law violations there any other way,” Judge Albert B. Anderson said in Federal Court today. The statement was made before he issued injunctions against six admitted blind tigers in Gary'- The buildings were ordered vacated and closed. Twelve defendants, owners and operators of the places, were named in the injunctions. Bix defendants were among the fifty five residents of Lake County found guilty of conspiracy to violate Federal prohibition laws by a Jury in Federal Court March 31. Strikes at Owners. In ordering the buildings vacated and ■closed Judge Anderson struck a blow at owners of property rented for Illegal purposes. ‘ I am not going to go after these bootleggers and blind tiger operators and let the owners of the property off.” Anderson said. "We have to en-

Driver of Booze-Laden Car Held After Chase by Cop—Liquor and Auto Seized

One alleged bootlegger escaped, but Is believed to have been shot, and John L. Lindsay. 4S. colored, giving his address as 1419 W Twenty-Sev-MOTHER OF SIX IS SPARED RIDE Police Allege Booze Found in Secret Cellar. Because Mrs. Louis Stanger, widow, 3021 W. Tenth fit., has six small children, one a baby In arms, police did not send her to headquarters In a patrol, but ordered her to appear in city court today to answer a blind tiger charge. Lieutenant Corrigan said he found 100 quarts of beer and twelve quarts of whisky in the house and a secret cellar. A trap door at the bottom of a furnace register led to a tunnel at the end of which was a secret room, Corrigan said. NEW TO BE-ROTARY GUEST Postmaster General Scheduled for Luncheon Address Tuesday. Postmaster General Harry S. New will be guest of honor and principal speaker before the Indianapolis Rotary Club Tuesday. First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett and high officials of the Postoffice Department also will be guests. The Indianapolis baseball club will attend the meeting. Jack Hendricks, manager of the club. Is a Rotation. _ .... ... . Hourly Temperature Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity Is mostly cloudy and continued Eool tonight. Sunday generally fair. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 3310 a. mi 35 7 a. m........ 3411 a. m........ 85 8 a. rn—...... 88 12 (noon) ...... 26 9 a. m....... 25

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the sergeant, according to Helm's testimony, Hubbard walked In. Green was charged with operating a blind tiger and offering a bribe. Ten other men were charged with vagrancy. Green was bound to the grand jury' in city- court today. Helm also declared Green dashed a bottle of vinegar In the bucket of "mule” when Hubbard, who was guarding it, turned his back for a moment. \ Four-Year Hunt Ends At the trial In city court, anew angle developed when Albert Davis, colored, employed at the Eli Gmll grocery-, 846 W. Eleventh St., a spectator, said he recognized Allen Smith, 27, colored, 546 W. Sixteenth St., arrested in the raid, as a man who passed two worthless cheeks totalling $49 at the Gmll grocery four years ago. He called Gmll and the latter's sister, Mary Rapia. Both Identified Davis, they said. Davis was held under $1,500 bond.

force the law for Gary down hero In Indianapolis. Property owners will have to see to it that their property is lawfully used. If used at all. Just because you are property owners you cannot violate the law or let others do It by renting your buildings and going south and living off the rent. To Keep It Up "As long as pen and Ink hold out and there are enough marshals to serve processes we are going to keep after places that violate the law.” Defendants named in the injunctions were Timothy Englehart and Jake Friedman, John Bllkovlc, John Farrell and Leo Lamont, Jefferson Hotel; Pauline Schultz and Joseph Gerosak, Metropolitan Case; Frank Vicen, Irvins Francis and Louis I. Kahn, Senate bar; Caroline Dellachiesa and George Mucovich, Broadway Inn. The six found guilty in the conspiracy case were Friedman, BilTcovlc, Lamont. Vicen, Mucovich and Pauline Schultz.

c-nth St., was arrested this morning on charges of operating a blind tiger. Motoroycleman William Brooks fired five shots at the man who escaped. The officer believes at least one bullet hit tho fugitive. Brooks was stationed at Illinois and Sixteenth Sts., to enforce the new city ordinance requiring motorists to stop at Illinois St. A driver of a touring car failed to stop. Brooks started after the automobile. One of vwo men in it jumped out. Brooks ordered the driver to halt and discovered two sacks of bottled white mule whisky in the car. Brooks then started In pursuit of the other man. As he reached an alley west of Illinois St., he saw the colored man running north and fired five shots. When Sergeant Wilkerson and the emergency squad reached the scene they found Brooks guarding Lindsay. In one sack they found three quarts of white mule whisky. In the other sack they found two quarts and a half gallon bottle of liquor. The automobile was turned over to Sheriff Snider. Lindsay owned the automobile, according to records In the secretary of State's office. Lindsay said he did not know the man who jumped out of his automobile. He said the man stopped him at Fifteenth and North West Sts., and "asked for a ride." APPOINTMENTS DENIED Governor Has Made No Announcement on Commissioners* Terms. Governor McCray has made no formal announcement that he Is to reappoint Edgar M. Blessing and Glen VanAuken as members of the public service commission for four-year terms, when their present terms expire, May 1, attaches of the Governor's office said today. The Governor made an informal indication of his Intention to name Blessing and VanAuken to succeed themselves, Miss Ada Bush, the Governor’s secretary, eaid. Neither of the two commissioner!! confirmed the report. Drug Store Is Robbed Burglars took $8 from a cash drawer and a pay. teelpbone at the Haskins & Miller! drug store, 242 >Blaka BL. FYlday flight.

of the grocery business and make some money,” he said. JAdKSON ADVISED AGAINST ANY EXTENSIVE BUYING OP SUGAR, DECLARING THERE IS NO DANGER OF A SHORTAGE. “Too much discussion of sugar prices is likely to cause a buying rush on the part of the public. About the time housewives would have a lot of sugar stored, the price would drop.” The latest increase in local sugar prices was caused by an increase of 25c a hundred pounds at New York. The New York wholesale price now is $9.40 a hundred pounds. Added

U. S. IS HELPLESS 10 PREVENT SUGAR GOUGEUNDERLAW Every Evidence of Conspiracy Shown as Prices Continue to Climb, BY LAWRENCE MARTIN (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 14.—The Government Is helpless to prevent the sugar gouge which Is costing the American people a huge sum every day. Government officials have evidence of the operations of sugar gamblers. They have a conspiracy law. They cannot bring the gamblers under the law. That is the exact situation today, while sugar prices continue to climb. The trouble is that the existing law does not seem to cover such operations as the evidence in the hands iof government. officials shows are I being carried on. There is no doubt In ! officials' minds of the guilt of cer- | tain individuals. But they cannot 1 find what they call "a point of de--1 parture” In the law. from which to : begin a prosecution that will stick, j This explains the reticence of offlj cials, from President Harding down ! on the government’s plans for rellev- | ing the American people from the : sugar robbery. The only plan there is consists in: 1. Continuing to gather evidence j covering operations dn sugar. In I New York today members of the sugar ! exchange were called on by Federal j lnvesetlgators for their records, i 2. Continuing a search for some j way to slap the law on them. Meantime, some of the facts In the Government's possession may be given publicity from time to time, for two purposes—first to let the public know that the price Increase Is artificial and not caused by any shortage or other natural cause, and second to let the sugar profiteers know the Government knows what they are doing and how they are doing it. If It is found impossible to apply ex- | isting laws, and the present situation J runs its course, with a consequent "clean-up" of millions for the profit takers, the Administration will consider the advisability of asking the next Congress to tighten the conspiracy laws so that the Government can break up situations like this one. HUMAN FLY RESTS FOR LONG CLIMB . \... Jack Williams Takes Good Sleep Before Work, Jack Williams, ths human fly, enjoyed a sound sleep this morning, in preparation for his climb up the north side of the Lincoln at 2:30 this afternoon. Williams left orders that ho should‘not be disturbed until noon. The exhibition was to be staged regardless of weather conditions. At 2:30 promptly, Williams, attired in his ■white climbing Bult, was to begin the long climb of fourteen stories. He Is here under auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM World famed as author of “The Great Impersonation/’ “Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo’’ and other mysteiy novels, has written his masterpiece, an enthralling series of detective stories comparable < Y to “Sherlock Holmes” at its best. B “Exploits of Sir Norman Greyes” The new series comprises a number of extraordinary stories rec junting-* pursuit of an international criminal by a retired Scotland Yard criminologist. The author departs from the stereotyped style of most detective stories, and produces even more The Oppenheim Stories Will Be Published Serially, Beginning Friday, April 20, OPPENHEIM In The Indianapolis Times

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1923

Sisters in Race for Marble Championship

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Here are two rivals for the trip to Atlantic City to bo arranged by The Indianapolis Times for the best marble player In Indianapolis. Louise Lewis, 14, of 610 N. Errorson Ave., and her sister, Eleanor, 10. are expert marble players, itnd they ore entered In The Times championship contest determined to win.

BANDITS SHOT IN GUN FIGHT Two Robbers and Three Employes of Detroit Company Are Wounded In Street Clash.

By United Press DETROIT. Mich., April 14.—Five men were wounded in a gun fight betwene t employes of the Charles B. Bohn Foundry Company and bandits who attempted to rob tho company DE VALERA AID IS TAKEN IN TIPPERARY Austin Stack Reported Captured by Free State Troops. By United Press DUBLIN, April 14.—Austin Stack, cohort of Do Valera, was captured by Free State forces In the Tipperary hills today, a dispatch from Clonmel states. BURGLAR IS OBEDIENT Makes Hasty Exit From Window When Discovered by Woman. A colored man climbing through a dining room window at tho home of Mrs. Blanche Maguire, 211 E. Fifteenth St., Friday night, fled when Mrs. Maguire, hearing a noise, ordered him to leave.

to this is a freight charge of 52 cents a hundred pounds, making the total cost to the dealer, exclusive of his selling expense and overhead of $9.92 cents a pound. The price to dealers is about 3 cents a pound higher than it was before the gouge started. “The retailer never makes anything on sugar,” Jackson continued. “The crowd in New York makes a profit, but the •retailer never has anything coming to him. Nobody ever seems to figure his‘store and his trucks and his employes’ wages cost anything.”

LOUISE LEWIS AND ELEANOR LEWIS

Impulse attends Technical High Sohool and Eleanor goes to achqgj No. 57. They will piny in separate emotional elimination contests, and it is possible they will oppose each other In the city champion ship game to choose the best player in the city. To do this each girl must win the

pay roll car containing $12,000 here today. The robbers failed to get tho money. William Bohn, employment manager, was shot and seriously wounded. Others Injured wore William Weakley. manager; Henry' S. Evang, and two unidentified bandits. According to police, the bandits drove up to the pay roll car, about a Mock from the foundry, and opened fire. 4 v \ Guards returned the fire. Bohn was pay roll car and when shot losttmontrol. The car dashed on to the curb a- the bandits lied. CONSIDER ‘VISIT' A JOKE Dr. Aloy Says Nothing Will Be Done About “K. K.” Debate Incident. The breaking up of a debate at Butler University on the Ku-Klux Klan Thursday night by a group of masked visitors is considered by university authorities as a joke and nothing further Will be done about It. Dr. Robert J. Aley, president of the school, said today.

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sectional in which she Is entered. The boys better watch their step, for Indianapolis may send a girl to Atlantic City, an many of tho "opposite sex” are entered. Tho champion will bo allowed to take his or her father or qftother to Atlantic City, all expenses to be paid by Tho Timos. Weather Man Frowns on Games Rain forced postponement of two preliminary games In the Indianapolis Times rqarble tournament today. The games were to have been held at the Beech Grove school for the pupils of that sohool and at School 0 for pupils of Schools 6, 12, 22, 23. 8. Manual Training High School and tho Sacred Heart Behoof. The contests will be held at the schools designated at 10 a. m. next Saturday, if the weather permits. APRIL SNOWSTORM HITS PHILADELPHIA Street Car and Vehicle Traffic Partly Demoralized. By United Vets* PHILADELPHIA, April 14.—A midApril snowstorm struck Philadelphia early today, blanketing the city under two Inches of snow. Street oar and vehicle traffic was portly demoralized by the storm. At 8 o’clock largo flakes Were continuing to fall and the temperature dropped from 50 to S2 degrees In twelve hours. Evangelists to He Guests The Rev'. Mel Trotter and lAmer Hammontree, evangelists, who will conduct a series of meetings at the Park Theater beginning Sunday, will be guests at a dinner given by the Wheeler City Mission at the Y. W. 0. A. tonight.

Less sugar is being used now than during the summer season when canning is in progress. Unless the “corner” in the East is broken up before the canning season starts, prices may go even higher. A dispatch from New York says the first step in the government investigation of the sugar price situation was revealed when members of the sugar exchange received from the United States attorney’s office a form letter asking for submission of a record of all transactions in raw and refined sugar from Jan. 1 to April 1.

Annexation Is Sought by South T own

University Heights Will Ask Indianapolis to Admit It if 50 Per Cent of Property Owners Indicate Favor, S, J, Finch, Town Board Member, Announces.

Citizens of University Heights today were preparing a petition to be presented to the city council asking annexation to Indianapolis, S. J. Finch, member of the town board, announced. Several meetings of citizens have been held, Finch said, at which it was decided to ask annexation if the names of more than 50 per cent of the property owners could be obtained on the petition. Assessed Vahie, $400,000. The proposed annexation would bring into the < y property with an assessed valuation of approximately $400,000. University Heights is an incorporated town southeast of the city with ft population of about 1.000 persons. The town lies eight blocks east of Meridian St. and about four miles south of Washington St. It is bounded on the north by Kephart St., on the south by Lawrence St. and

LOUIS CHEVROLET AUTO COMPANY GOES BANKRUPT ♦ Petition Lists Assets at SBB,163 and Liabilities at $425. The Frontenac Motor Company, Tonth and Fayette Sts., filed a petltioa In bankruptcy In Federal Court today. The petition was signed by Louis Chevrolet, famous automobile race driver, president of the company. Liabilities were given as $88,163.56 and assets as $425. v The Frontenac Motor Company has built some of the most successful racing cars in the* world. These cars were designed by Louis Chevrolet. They won the Indianapolis Speedway 500mlle race in 1920 and 1921 and finished high among the leaders In other years. Two years ago the company completed plans for producing a highgrade pleasure car, designed by Chevrolet, to be known as the FYontenac. Failure to certain eastern financial lntetrsts to carry out the financing program resulted in abandonment of the plan. ,

MRS. PHILIP LEWIS HESJNHOSPfTAL Was Graduate of-Shortrldge and Butler, Mrs. Katherine Jameson Lewis. 29, of 3604 Salem St., died today at the Robert W. Long Hospital. Mrs. Lewis was born in Indianapolis in 1804. She was graduated from Shortridge High School In 1912 and from Butler College In 1917. She attended Radcllffe College in Cambridge, Mass. In 1918 she married Philip Lewis at Camp Shelby, Miss. Mrs. Lewis was a member of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. She Is survived by the husband, Philip C. Lewis, and one daughter, Mary Elizabeth Lewis. U. S. WILL REMAIN AS FRIENDLY OBSERVER Child, Bristol and Grew Will B© Representatlves at Lausanne. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 14.—America’s position at the forthcoming Lausanne Near East peace conference will be exactly what It was at the former conference—that of a friendly observer, it was stated today. Richard Washburn Child, Rear Admiral Mark Bristol and Joseph C, C. Grew are the observers who wi4 represent this government.

Forecast MOSTLY cloudy and continued cool tonight. Sunday generally fair.

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lies between Madison Ave. on the west and State Ave. on the east. A committee of six has been appointed to present the petition to property owners today. t'ouncilmen Favorable "There is no question that this proposition will go over,” Finch said. "However, we want to be certain before an annexation ordinanace is drawn and presented to tho council. I have talked to several members of the council who are favorable If the required names are obtained on ths petition.” If the petition is successful it will be presented to Macklin Mack, draftsman for the city plan commission, who will prepare the annexation ordinance. It Is understood that one of the main reasons for the annexation is that the citizens of University Heights wish to obtain benefits of the city zoning ordinance.

SHANK APPROVES WAGE BOOST FOR CITY’S EMPLOYES l Increase of 10 Per Cent Favored by Mayor In - Conference, A wage increase of 10 per cent and a general readjustment of salaries among city employes who draw less than $1,500 a year was discussed favorably today by Mayor Shank, in conference with City Controller Joseph L. Hogue and John F. Walker, superintendent of the street cleaning department. t Some time ago the city council recommended that a list of such employes be prepared and presented to the council. At that time the mayor was not favorable. He stated today that since many firms have Increased wages he believed raises should be given city employes. Controller Hogue said there Is no money to carry a general increase, but that provision will be made In the 1923 budget if the Increase is decided on definitely. "I do not see how some of the city employes can work for what they are making,” the mayor said. “Say, there are some working for the city for SIOO a month trying to provide for a family.” The mayor said that he favored es general increase instead of every few days having a special ordinance in* troduced before the council for a par* ticular person. Walker said his department has sufficient funds for an immediate lQk crease.

IRISH PLOT FOILED BY SCOW YARD Lives of Police Official ant Cabinet Member Marked, By United Press LONDON. April 14.—An Irish e* tremist plot to destroy London powe# stations, open prison gates, destroy waterworks and subways was uncoiA ered today In documents seized during a big Scotland Yard raid, 1 the Eve* nlng News states. Lives of police officials and one unnamed cabinet member were marked for death, It Is said. The plot was discovered In captured documents which were taken during search of numerous houses in the section populated by known Irish extremists. Two men were arrested. Throe Die In Plain Crash. By United Brers BERLIN. April 14.—A Polish military airplane crashed through the roof of a two-story bakery at Cracow, Poland, today, killing three, person*