Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1923 — Page 1

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NEW PLEADS FOR LEADER WIH BRAINS Postmaster General Denies Backing Candidate as Lyons' Successor, •NOT HERE FOR POLITICS’ Cabinet Member Says Harding Will Speak in Indiana on Return From West, I want and all I want is flhat the Indiana Republicans elect a chairman with some brains and who will be unselfishly for the Republican party,” Postmaster General Harry S. New declared on his arrival here today in discussing the chairmanship fight brought about by the prospective resignation of Lawrence Lyons. The postmaster general is tn Indianapolis to attend the Indiana postal conference convention, which he will address at the Athenaeum Tuesday afternoon. In Barber’s Chair Through hot towels and while dodging the lather brush and razor strokes in the Columbia Club barber shop. New discussed the chairmanship situation and President Harding's proposed trip to Alaska. “I have no candidate for the chairmanship.” he continued. “When it comes to political organization I never have sought either to make or control. I am not now departing from long established custom. I want to see an efficient, respectable party organizations, that will be unselfishly for the Republican p;u"ty. I have not come here to press any individual.'' “Not to Talk Politics” New said his sole purpose In coming to Indianapolis was to atend the postal convention and not to talk politics. He said he expected to attend a number of similar conventions in other parts of the country. L While President Harding's itinerary I on his trip to Alaska has been disItfusfted only tentatively, New' said he will not speak in Indiana until August, on his return trip. He said at least one speech will be made In Indiana. It is doubtful. New said, whether the President can accept the Invitation of Republican editors to ;peak in South Bend early In June. To Start About .June 20. “President Harding will leave Washington about June 20,” New said. “He will make a number of speeches going out and coming in. He probably will speak in St Louis. Denver. Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Portland, going out.” “Coming back, he wdll take the Northern route, stopping for at least one speech in Indiana. The President *ls making the trip because he is interested in Alaskan development.” New- refused to discuss the effect the Daugherty announcement Harding is a candidate would have on the President’s tour. Delegation at Train New was met at the train by a large delegation of postmasters and postal employes. As he stepped from the station he was met by a detachment of marines. In the reception delegation, besides postoffice officials, were Bert C. .\V)rcan. Federal prohibition enforcement officer for Indiana; Charles W. Jewett and Gen. Dwight M. Aultman, commander of Ft. Harrison. New- will make the first speech of his visit before the Rotary Club Tuesday noon. He said he will not talk politics.

Officials Speak The postal convention will open at it Athenaeum at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon with speeches by New. Governor McCray. Mayor Shank and Wallace O. Lee, representing the 'Chamber of Commerce. John H. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster general, will arrive Tuesday for the convention. BRYSON GREETS STATE POSTAL CLERKS HERE Convention Opens at Denison—Shank • to Speak. The State convention of the Indiana Federation of fostofflee Clerks opened at the Denison today’. Robert H. Bryson, lipostmnster, delivered an address of welcome. Lauren C. Griffith, president of the federation, responded. At the afternoon session Mayor Shank, Arthur W. Hamilton and Gil bert E. Hyatt, were to speak. The convention will end with a love feast this evening. Members the federation will attend the anud post office conference, at which Postmaster General Harry S. New will speak, at the Athenaeum Tuesday.

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CITY HAS ONE AMBULANCE

Small Girl Killed By Freight Engine

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RUTH HARR I SON Injuries received Sunday when Ruth Harrison, 9, of 1921 S. State Ave., was struck by a freight engine, proved fatal. The funeral will be held at the home at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday.

CLARA FILIPS LOCATED—AGAIN Escaped Hammer Murderess Reported in San Salvador By United Prets LOS ANGELES. April 16.—Clara Phillips, escaped hammer murderess, today was reported in the republic of San Salvador. According to a story published here. Sheriff Traeger had worked in cooperation with a local newspaper In tracing her to the Central American republic. Sheriff Traeger, however, declared he knew nothing of it. and that no one had given him any definite information on the subject. According to the published story Clara entered Guatemala early In March, going from Mexico City alter her precipitate flight from Juarez and Chihuahua late In January. She left Guatemala two weeks ago, according to the reports, going to San Salvador. “If officials of San Salvador have located Mrs. Phillips. I know nothing of it.” Sheriff Traeger said today. PRIEST GETS LIFE TERM FOR MURDER OF PASTOR Solitary Confinement Is Imposed on Father Dillon. By United Press KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 16 Solitary confinement for life at the State prison in Marquette was the sentence imposed today on the Rev. Father Charles DIUon, who confessed the slaying of the Rev. Father Henry O’Neill, pastor of St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church last Thursday night. Sentence was imposed by Judge Welmer. COURT WILL RULE ON AUCTION SALES Jewelry Store Proprietor Would Stop Police Interference. Whether police will have the right in the future to stop auction jewelrysales was to be determined in Circuit Court late today by Judge H. O. Chamberlain. The court will consider a permanent Injunction sought by Arthur Valinetz, proprietor of a jewelryauction store at Pennsylvania and Market Sts., to restrain police and the safety board from interfering. Valinetz Is now operating under a temporary injunction granted March 30 A city ordinance prevents certain jewelry auction sales between 6 p. m. and 8 a. m. News A r or Motorists Charles C. Benjamin, head of the State gasoline fee collection department, was In Frankfort, Ky., today to confer with Kentucky officials of a corresponding department. Benjamin is formulating plans for the operation of the local collecting office.

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Prussian Reservists Are Rushing Home AMERICAN LEGION OFFICIAL ASSERTS MONARCHISTS PREPARE ‘FINAL STROKE’ TO RESTORE EX-KAISER

By United Press PR U S S 1 AN monarchists are preparing a final stroke for restoration of the German empire under the house of Ilohenzollern, Garland W. Powell, director of Americanism in the American Legion, with headquarters here, declared in a speech to the Kiwanis Club at Bloomington, 111., today. “Boats carrying hundreds of Prussian reservists have been and ai'e now en route from the United States to Germany,” Powell said. Americans in Europe have

GUARD OF BOOZE STORAGE SLAIN BY SIX RAIDERS Success of Prohibition Doubted by Officials of Organization, While Anti-Saloon League Head Points Out Benefits —State Poll Planned.

While a prohibitionist and an antiVolsteadian debated for The Indianapolis Times today on whether the national dry law Is a success, a Government man guarding liquor was shot to death by six men who sought to steal booze. Surprised in the act of robbing the Hammond Distillery warehouse at Hamnvy.d. Ind., six men killed George Anderson, 40. Bethel. Ind. Government watchman. Collector of Internal Revenue. M. Burt Thurman, was informed. The Federal prohibition department sent Agent Seth Ward to Hammond to investigate. Raiders Surprise Guards Anderson surprised the robbers after they had bound another watchman. They fled without loot. Anderson was the father of six children. Asa result of the killing of Anderson two warehouse agents at Hammond resigned. They were Joseph Stachjir of Hammond and Louis Struck of New Albany. Struck until a few weeks ago was warehouse guard at a distillery at Lawrenceburg. Asa result of Strack's loyalty In refusing to accept a bribe Federal officers say a daring plot to rob at Lawrencefurg was frustrated. • • * Have five years of prohibition In Indiana been a success? "Yes," says Dr. E. S. Shumaker, HALF-CHEWED RECEIPT HELPS COPS WIN ‘RACE’ Worn,-in Evades Pursuers for a While By Sliding Through Hole. After fleeing from a second-story window at her home. 413 Roache St... through an opening In a porch roof too small for Lieutenant Eisenhut and Sergeant Cummins, pursuing, and down a pillar, Hattie Watkins, 23, colored, was arrested at 353 VV. Twenty-Sixth St., w-here she was pouring mash into a cistern, tho of fleers said. A rent receipt to the letter address, half-lchewed up by her husband, Levi, directed the police In fhelr pursuit. Both husband and wife were charged with operating a blind tiger. Levi also was charged with illegal possession of firearms and Interfering with a legal process. MAIL SERVICE CURTAILED Only One Delivery Tuesday, Bryson Announces. There will be only one delivery of mail to residences and three to business houses Tuesday, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, announced today. The last downtown delivery will he at 12:15 p. m. Service will be curtailed, Bryson said, in order to give as many postoffice employes as possible opportunity to attend the annual postoffice conference at the Athenaeum. 1 Smith Reslated As Ryle Allen Smith, 27, colfired, arrested Saturday for vagrancy was reslated under the name of William Ryle, In city court today on a charge of issuing fraudulent checks. Ryle gave his address as 546 W. Sixteenth St.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923

notified the Americanism commission, Powell asserted, that the military spirit is on the ascendency in Berlin. “Former German officers are strutting about the streets in much |hc same manner as in the summer of 1914 and American observers characterize the German capital as a city preparing for war,” he declared. “Americans in Berlin have reported they are accumulating stocks of foodstuffs in preparation for a scurcitv of provisions, expected with the

superintendent of the Indiana AntiSaloon League. “No,” says Smiley Chambers, secretary of the Indiana division of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. The State became dry by legislative enactment in April, 1918. Jails Empty “Many of the jails are empty—that proves prohibition Is a success.” Dr. Shumaker declared. “The fact the Jails have few Inmates and the Marion County workhouse has bene abandoned prove nothing,” Chemt>ers Insisted. “They are empty because prisoners formerly sent to jails and to the workhouse are now sent to the State farm.” “'Bank assets and life insurance policies have increased out of nil proportion to the Increase in population,” Dr. Shumaker continued. “The people are paying a lot of money for prohibition enforcement and are receiving nothing In return. Meanwhile, taxes are Increased in order to pay the bill and to make up the deficit due to the elimination of taxes paid by the llcjuor industry," Chambers replied. Shumaker Gives Figures Shumaker had figures which he sai l indicate prohibition Is a success. Chambers said he had no figures, but declared no law which takes away liberties of the people could be a ruceess. He declared there Is no moral issue Involved. Here are some of Dr. Shumaker's arguments: Tho total of Inmates of Jails and State penal for flvo years before prohibition was 222,626; for the five years of prohibition. 127,649. On Sept. 30. 1922, twenty-eight, of the ninety-two county jails were empty and others had only a few inmates, mostly Insane. School Enrollment Up Tho average 'mrollment In grade schools for the live wet years was 324,585, and 392,638 for the five dry years. The high school enrollment was 34 per cent higher 1922 than in 1917. Bank assets have Increased thirtysix per cent. Life insurance policies have increased 59 per cent. Deaths from alcoholism numbered twenty-nine in 1920 and fifty In 1921, as compared with 109 In 1917. Nearly every room vacated by a saloon Is now iccupied. Two of those !n Indianapolis have been turned into churches. Breweries have been converted to other purposes. Chambers said his organization is preparing to take a poll In Indiana to determine the * sentiment of the State on prohibition. .

DANCE MARATHON IS FORBIDDEN HERE

Indianapolis has no chance of breaking one record—at least, as long as Police Chief Herman Rikhoff has anything to say about it. “Long distance” dancing ’does not appeal to the chief. In fact, the chief thinks that persons who dafrice for

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outbreak of war. “With Von Hindenburg as their national leader, 1 believe that the Prussians are preparing for war against the French. This warlike spirit does not exist in west and south Germany. In Essen and occupied districts of western Germany the people do not want war. That is why Berlin was obliged to send Prussian officials into the Ruhr to try to stir up the people until the French forbade their entry. “The drama of the Ruhr

Dorothy Gish to Be Visitor Tuesday

DOROTHY GTSH Dorothy Gisn is scheduled to arrive here at. 11:12 a. m. Tuesday to be the guest of the Circle Theater where the Barthelmesa-Gish picture, “The Bright Shawl,” is being presented. Miss Gish has consented to make personal appearances at the Circle Tuesday at 3:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p. m. At 6 o'clock site will be the guest of the theater at an informal dinner at the Severin. She is en route West. AFFIDAVITS LOST IN CLERK’S OFFICE Documents Sought by Cops— Bonds Forfeited. Attaches of the city clerk’s office and police today sought two affidavits charging Robert Howell. 35. of 1805 N. New Jersey St., with operating a. blind tiger, which mysterluosly disap peared Saturday. Deputy Clery Shelton said the bailiff laid the affidavits on his desk Friday night. They were missing Saturday morning. Police said Howell forfeited bonds on both charges by failing to appear in court. Bondsmen, they suid. are Henry Rothschild and Eli Emil. Howell was arrested March 1, police said they found liquor in his automobile and later at his home. AT LEAST HE WAS SAFE Husband Gone Since Hoodoo Day Is Found In Jail. Mrs. Joe Brazko living on Carol St., Mars Hill, found her husband, missing from home since Friday, the 13th. in Marlon County Jail today. Brazko was arrested on the charge of drunkenness. He was fined $1 and costs in' city court. He was unable to pay the fine and costs.

fifty or sixty hours at a time are—er—well . Furthermore, he is convinced such dancing increases suicides by causing the dancers to break down In health. So the chief said today he would stoii any attempts here to break time records for dancing.

Arthur Murray, the world’s greatest teacher of ballroom dancing, who also specializes in giving lessons by mail, will give lessons thru the columns of this paper. Turn to the woman’s page to read about ivjurray.

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is not that of resistance to France; it is that of resistance of Prussia. The Bavarians and Westphalians and Saxons are beginning tn realize th: t Prussia is no longer the master of Germany’s destiny. But Ben cannot give up her dreams of world conquest. “American people should be aware of that clrneut of German-Amerieans who are far more German than the Germans themselves.” Pro-German propaganda

GRAIN FUTURES ACT IS DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL Supreme Court Approves Federal Control and Regulation of Exchanges—Provides for Farmers' Cooperative Memberships,

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 16. —The Supreme Court of the United States today placed its stamp of approval on the second attempt of Congress to regulate the grain exchanges of the country. It declared constitutional the “grain futures act” passed by Congress last tall, which brings the principal grain exchanges of the country under Governmental control, and provides that

ACCIDENT TOLL IS 37 LIVES

Thirty-seven persons were killed and 213 in week-end automobile accidents in thirty-three cities throughout the country, figures compiled today revealed. The heaviest casualties were in Detroit, where seven died, and San Francisco, where six were killed. Other cities reporting deaths were: Milwaukee and Hamilton, Ohio, three each; Pittsfield, Mass., and Cincinnati, two each, and New Orleans, Atlanta, Pensacola, Dos Moines, Buffalo, St. Louis, St. Paul, Chicago, Zanesville, Dayton, Toledo, Charleston, W. V.,; Bridgeport, Conn., and New London, Conn., one each. (Copyright, 19SS, hy United Press)

SPECIAL TRAIN TO CARRY INDIANAPOLIS BOOSTERS Many Local Merchants Will Go On Trip To Illinois Cities. Applicants to participate in the Chamber of Commerce courtesy trip to seven Illinois cities Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, will be received up until time for the special train to leave tho Union Station at 7 a. m. Wednesday. Sixty or seventy merchants and professional men already are enrolled for the trip, which will be the biggest ever staged by the chamber. A special band will accompany the party. Cities to be visited: Danville, Urbana, Champaign, Clinton, Decatur, Mattoon and Paris. Ice Cream Company Dissolved Dissolution of the Banquet Ice Cream Company of Indianapolis, effected recently i!> local courts, was announced today in notice filed with Ed Jackson, secretary of State. L. S. Graham was vice president and E. J. Thlelke secretary.

in America is directed from Berlin, said Powell, and is not representative of the German people. “There are German hyphenates all over the country who are trying to organize pro-German meetings and play on the sympathies of the American people,” Powell stated. “I want to give these people anew slogan, it is ‘Back to Berlin.’ They are not needed in America, nor anywhere in Germany except in the capital of Prussia.”

farmers’ cooperative associations shall be admitted to membership on the exchanges. About a year ago the court declared unconstitutional the first grain futures act passed by Congress. Protection to Farmers The primary purpose of the two jaw’s was to protect the fanners and producers of the country against alleged losses due to the manipulations of grain market speculators. The new law was attacked by the Board of Trade of Chicago, which aserted it was a taxing statute and, therefore, should be declared unconstitutional. The first law was knocked out mainly on the basis of a previous decision of the court holding the tax on child labor products unconstitutional. Chief Justice Taft, delivering the court's opinion, said the grain futures act differs from the first law, which was invalidated in that it attempts only to regulate commodities In interstate commerce. The wheat pit, he declared, is not a final destination of grain, but only a temporary resting place, like the stock yards in relation to cattle. Regulates Exchanges The grain futures act, Taft Atid, regulates the grain exchanges in the same manner as the stockyards act recently upheld regulates the stockyards. Such acts, Taft said, are legitimate exercises of the police power under authority of Congress. The grain futures act was upheld by a vote or 7 to 2. Associate Justices Mcßeynolds and Sutherland dissented. They did not deliver a minority opinion. Mis HOP-OFF FOR NEW RECORD Lieutenants Mcßeady and Keely Start Distance Flight, Bn United Press DAYTON, Ohio, April 16.—Its wings glistening in the sunlight the T-2, giant Army transport, took off at 9:40 a. m. today in an attempt to set anew record for sustained flight and distance. Official observers recorded the start with stop watches sealed by the naval observatory a 1 Washington as Lieut. John Macßeady and Oakley Kelly, the pilots, started into the air. Climbing to a height of 500 feet the plane steadied and. started circling the field. Seven hundred and fifty gallons of gasoline were in the T-2's reserve tanks. Macßeady and Kelly recently failed In an attempted coast-to-coast nonstop flight when they were forced to land at Ft. Harrison, here. Thief Can Hitch Up Brass-mounted harness valued at |135 was missing today from the barn of Charleys Coval, Rural Route M, box 272. Two sets were stolen.

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Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Continued cool weather.

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SHE IS BLAMED FOB UUGDELAYS Hospital Car Reaches Scene an Hour After One Accident. Only one city ambulance Is available for emergency calls! This was learned today when police complained there had been delays of many minutes in ambulances reaching scenes of accidents in the last few days. One of the three ambulances In the city hospital equipment is so out of repair that it can not be reclaimed, Dr. Cleon Nafe, superintendent, said. Another was wrecked in a collision several days ago. UNDERTAKERS ARE CALLED ON TO AID. Until the second car is repaired the hospital is calling on undertakers to furnish private ambulances in cases where emergency calls come while the single city machine is out, Dr. Nafe said. Meanwhile the board of health has made no move to buy another ambulance to replace the obsolete one. Money is scarce, it was explained. A good ambiance costs about $5,000, it was said. Police Sergeant Wilkerson said an ambulance did not come to the 200 block in Indiana Ave., where John Keyes, 75, of 20 N. East St., was fatally injured Thursday, until twentyfive minutes after a cad was sent to the city hospital. Th? hospital answers emergency calls only on call of police. ARRIVES AN HOUR AFTER ACCIDENT. Response to a call for an ambulance for Warren Rice, injured at TnirtyFourth St. and Sherman Dr., Sunday, did not come until about an hour after the accident, police said. "Investigation shows the first call on the Indiana Ave. accident came to police headquarters at 12:30 p. m.,” Dr. Nafe said. “The call was not "*■ received at the hospital until 12:38. We sent a call to a private undertaker at 12:40. About half an hour alter we called the undertaker and he said an ambulance had been sent right out. but the body had been removed to the city morgue before the car got there. I have not learned how the body was moved.

TWENTY MILES AN HOUR IS LIMIT. "Sunday our one ambulance was out on another call when the report came from police of the accident on Sherman Dr. We dispatched a passenger automobile with a doctor in it at once and as soon as the ambulance came In we sent it. I expect there was some little delay’ in the ambulance getting there, because I have ordered drivers not to go faster than twenty miles an hour. "I have been with the hospital several years and I never have known a case where ambulances were delayed long enough to result seriously to the patient. I believe it is better to have the ambulances driven at a reasonable rate than to rush them to a patient and run the risk of Injuring or killing someone on the way. We feel the public •will bear us out in this. "Even on a long run the rule against fast driving would cause a delay of only' four or five minutes and I don’t believe that would be as serious as risking hitting some pedestrian or another vehicle.” MEASLES GAIN HEADWAY IN SPRING ONSLAUGHT City Sanitarian Expects 200 Casts Daily for Few Weeks. A large increase in the number of cases of measles reported to the board of health has been noted in the last few days. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, said today. In tho first thirteen days of April, 435 cases were reported. In the three day’s since then, the number has almost doubled and a further increase is expected, according to Dr. Morgan. “We probably shall average around 200 cases a day for several weeks,” Dr. Morgan said. HARD LUCK HANGS ON Mrs. Mamie Isley’s Hens Stolen While She Is in Prison. Two bantam hens and large hens belonging to Mrs. Mamie Isley, now serving two to fourteen years in the Woman’s Prison on conviction of heading a conspiracy to loQt the Alert State Bank of $45,000 in bonds, were stolen from the Isley’ farm, near Julietta. Sunday’, Sheriff George Snider learned today. A filling station on the Isley’ property also was broken into and several boxes of gloves were taken.

The National League baseball season opens Tuesday, the American League starts Wednesday and the American Association Thursday, The Times Pink Edition will be on the job. ’Enuff said.