Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 297

BRITAIN TO AID U. S. IN RUM WAR John Bull Promises to Suppress Liquor Smuggling Into This Country From Bahama Islands Navy . Department 'Powerless,'

Five Billions in English Booze Smuggled Into United States

Xnrt LONDON, April 24.—Five billion dollars of liquor was shipped to the Bahama Islands from En?- ! land during the last year and then smuggled into the United States. This statement was made in the House of Commons Monday by Colonial Undersecretary Ormsby-

Very little liquor from the Ba- , reaches Indianapolis, Bert j C. Morgan, Federal prohibition j director for Indiana, said today, j Some time ago there were a few rum-runners who braved the long trip from Florida or Georgia, Put _ i they quit because it was less ex pensive to work out of Canada, i Morgan said. What Bahama liquor that reached Indianapolis generally was shipped In trunks by persons spending the winter in Florida, Morgan said. By United Seics WASHINGTON. April 24.—The Brit- j ish government has assured the United States that it will cooperate in sup- J pression of rum-running to the extent, of pressure on its West Indian posses-! sions, now one of the main channels ! by which whole boat loads of liquor are being landed on American shores. This offer of chinking up a small portion of the far-stretching American coast line afforas the only tangible hope thus far in the gigantic task which officials now acknowledge they face in stopping wholesale rum running. No Practical Suggestion ft The hope held out by the recent anpouncement from the White House [that President Harding was planning vigorous action fell flatly when the j Treasury Department admitted that ! no practical suggestion had yet been offered for driving the rum running from the sea. It had been expected < that some definite plan would quickly j follow the prolonged discussion by j President Harding and his Cabinet j last Friday. Officials are almost hopeless of any- ; thing being accomplished any time j soon. Use of Navy vessels, generally . understood to be the President's hope j of action, is held up by two obstacles: j 1. There is now no money provided j for equipping these boats. 2. There is no> chance of getting any i money until Congress reconvenes ,-in j december. This would prohibit any use of Navy vessels until December at least. In view of the large amount of money which treasury officials declare would be necessary there is some doubt that

UTAH HOLDS HP LINCOLN HIGHWAY Western State May Block b Completion of Road. Indiana motorists were interested today in the controversy over whether the Lincoln Highway, which runs through the northern part of the State, shall become a transcontinental road. According to the Lincoln Highway Association, the road runs as far as Utah and that State is refusing to assist in completing the highway to the west. The association has appealed to the Federal highway department to assist in pushing the road through to the coast. 74 CHICKENS ARE MISSING Thieves Busy During the Night Put Police on Guard. Police were looking for seventy-four missing chickens today. Sam Cutsinger, head of the Horse THef Detective Association of Greenwood. reported seventy chickens stoi en from the farm of Thomas Dailey, north of that town Mrs. J. A. McGau. 1020 X. Illinois St., reported four chickens stolen from her- hencoop. THREE SHOWS DAILY Summer Season Policy Announced By Palace Theater. The summer policy of the Palace /Theater will be three shows a day rivith the bills changing on Monday and Thursday of each week, according to announcement of Herb Jennings. manager. The new policy will go into efleet n*>xt Monday. There will be six acts of vaudeville and a first run feature ' picture. Jennings says there will be a number ut big name acts during the summer. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 42 10 a. m 67 1 a. m 44 11 a. m £8 _S a- m ... SO 12 (noon) ...... 68 ,- -■ - In. m 63

Gore. After one member declared that liquor sent to the Bahamas should be rationed "for the sake of American friendship,’’ Ormsby-Gore said if Bahama importation were curtailed the liquor would probably go to some other point near by.

Congress would make an appropriation for this purpose untli after considerable deliberations. Ah, Here's Drawback There ,1s some pessimism as to what the patrolling boats would be able to accomplish, even were they provided. One particular difficulty already encountered was pointed out at the treasury Monday, that of following small boats into the countless bayous and streams which are navigable only to very small craft. Commissioner of Prohibition Haynes, it is understood, is in favor of using patrol boats for "spotting” rum runners autside the three-mile limit, and keeping a close watch on them. It is felt by some officials, however, that other nations might consider this as \ an unfriendly act. FiNBERG DEFENDS SHOW DENOUNCED BY POLICE CHIEF Rikhoff Threatens to Revoke License of Broadway Theater, While Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff today made public a letter threatening to revoke the license of the Broadway Theater, charging it staged "indecent” shows. Abe Flnborg, manager of the theater, declared costumes at his theater were no "briefer’’ than those at any other theater. Rikhoff in his letter to Flnberg said he saw the show at the Broadway this week and was "very much embarrassed and displeased with what I saw.” "In my opinion, this show is not fit. 10 be placed before the public,’’ he said. He indicated he would have the performance this afternoon watched. "We try to stay within the law," Finberg said. “We permit no costumes that are ar.y briefer than those used in other theaters in the city. We insist that comedians use no Jokes that might prove objectionable.” Several weeks ago members of the Indianapolis Church Federation complained to Rikhoff concerning tho show. Jesse McDonald, a member of the company playing at the theater at that time, was arrested and convicted of public indecency. She appealed her case to the Criminal Court, where it stil! is pending.

ACQUITTAL WON BY FACTOR* Court Step Recalls Injury to Fire Fighters, Lee Ileiney, 1122 E. Twenty-Second St., motorman of the Brightwdbd car that struck a fire truck at Arsenal and Roosevelt Aves. April 5, injuring four firemen, was acquitted on charges of assault and battery and failing to give a fire truck the right of way in city court today by Judge Wilmoth. The fire truck, from engine house No. 16, was badly damaged In the crash. Masonic Home Dedicated. Du Times Special ALEXANDRIA, Ind., April 24 De-'icatorv sendees for the new Masonic home were held this ftemoon. Judge Charles J. Orb: ion is to address the members of the lodge this evening.

Gompers Says Beer, High Wages and Unions Make Good Citizen

By United Xcicx ALBANY, N. Y., April 24. —Give the workman h : s beer and protection against cheap imported labor, and the unions will complete making -him a first-class American citizen. So declared Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, speaking here for a

Director Resigns Tabernacle Post E. HOWARD CABLE BOARD WITHHOLDS lIS DECISION AS CABLE STEPS OUT Refusal to 'Fire' Choir Leader Given as Cause of Resignation, Directors of the Cadle Tabernacle Association had before them today the resignation from the board of E. Howard Cadle, founder of the association. Ed Jackson, secretary of State and president of the board, said no action on the resignation has been tnkeft and no further meeting of the board has been scheduled. Cadle also announced his intention to resign as president, of the Gipsy Smith Choir, claimed by the association to be the largest organized choir in the world.

Cadle Makes Statement Persons involved, with the exception of Cadle, refused to comment. Cadle nl3.de a statement In which he Indicated he had demanded that the board ask for the resignation of Joe Overmyer, director of the choir. The board refused, according to Cadle, and Radio's resignation followed. Cadle Indicated ho would dispose of his holdings in tho tabernacle property. Overmyer said he may make a statement later. Recently Overmyer announced he had resigned from tho Ku-Klux Klan. Cadle has declined to affirm or deny an assertion that no is a member of the Klan. Overmyer declined to say whether his resignation from tho Klan had any connection with his difficulties with Cadle. After explaining his resignation was due to tho refusal of tho board to oust Overmyer, Cadle said in his statement: ”1 am taking this action in the interest of harmony In the assocla tion and for tho betterment of the work, which I expect to go forward until I decide what disposition to make of my interest and holdings in tho tabernacle. Board Backs Overmyer “I am sorry that tho matterVamo up and 1 regret it very much, hut it came to a showdown for the board to retain me or Mr. Overmyer, and when they refused to back mo up in the request for Mr. Overmyer's resignation, then I decided to stqji down and out. I have tried to act for the betterment of the work of the association. I have no official connection now with the association.” Besides being loader of the choir, Overmyer is secretary of the Tabernacle Association. Other members are Jackson, G. A. Everett. Leon Joyce, Daniel L. Speicher, Walter Hansing, Joseph Stacey, K. E. Cadle, Frank Hirschman and Maj. Earle F. Hites. Cadle has had a spectacular career. He once owned a saloon, but lost his money at cards. Later he worked as a porter in the same saloon. He first appeared prominently in religious affairs here during the Gipsy Smith revival GOWNS SHOWN BY CO-EDS Butler Students Appear in Dresses Made by Class. * A meeting of Butler College Y. M. ff A. this noon resembled an assembly of fashion-creators. Before tho girts appeared, not tho customrry speaker, but an array of brtght-hued spring gowns, worn by pretty models. Tho dresses were made ar.d displayed by members of the Butler sewing class, whfi-h Is taught by Miss Ida B. Wilhite.

State compensation plan before the New York Legislature. Gompers said he favored beer but not the Saloon. He attacked the reported effects of Elbert H. Gary, United States Steel chairman, and others, to lift the immigration bans to permit more southern European mill hands to enter this country.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1923

’Boes Pay Annual' Visit Overland Migration Northward to Spend Summer Under Way,

“In the spring when the green gets back hi thi. tree# "And the sun comes out and stars" The hobo deserts his life of case And takes to the broad highways. They are moving again, those sons of rest over whose spirit every season comes intensified the call of the road, the urge to seek new scenes and new, if often mild, adventure. You see them on the streets, “mooching” a dime hero and a nickel there; you see them In the railroad yards, dodging the cops; you eee them sitting along the curbs around the Statehouse and around the courthouse, and more often than not you see them in the Jails and in police court, facing the always convenient a>nd all-engulfing charge of vagrancy. v It is a rare psychology that prompts these "knights of the road” and directs their precarious" and net altogether unenviable existence. "You know us ’boes’ are not near as bad a lot as folks let on we are," said one unshaven and ragged wayfarer os he rested his bones on the courthouse curb—contractors make a practice of walking along this curb and offering jobs of common labor Impartially, but rarely Is a Job accepted. "Os course, we don't work much, not unless we have to, but we don’t do nobody any harm," he continued "We like to keep on the move and It don't take much to keep us. We get run In once in p. while, but that’s all in the day’s work." Did you know the hoboes have a union? Its headquarters nre in St. Louis and Jeff Davis of Cincinnati, known as the “king of the hoboes," Is president. They even have an annual convention. For days preceding each convention freight trains carry their loads of Illicit passengers and the dust on tne roads is trampled down. - MARBLE SHOOTERS READY FOR ACTION Two Games on Saturday in Times Contest, Two more elimination games will be played In the Indianapolis Times marble tournament next Saturday. Pupils who will not be 15 before Juno 15 and who attend the Beech Grove school will play at that school. At school No. 2, at 700 N. Delaware St., pupils attending school Nos. 2,4, 5, 17, 23. 24. 32. 40. 68, and Shortrldgo High School will play. The games will start promptly ; t 9 a. m. Be there and bring your mar hies along.

COP'S REDUCTION LAID TO POLITICS Mayor Reported to Have Heard ‘Remarks.’ Political gossip caused the reduction of Motor Policeman William N. Norman by the board of public safety today, according to his friends. Ho was reduced to patrolman. Friends said Mayor Shank was reported to have hoard that Norman made uncomplimentary remarks about him during tho municipal campaign two years ago and ordered him reduced therefor. He was promoted a few months ago. Patrolman John Long was promoted to motor policeman, j Trafficman Harry Smith was rei duced to patrolman on his own re- | quest. I James Guinan was appointed substitute fireman. SUGAR REACHES PEAK OF RISE IN PRICE j Refined Article Quoted at 10.25 by Pennsylvania Concern. Bv United I’rr NEW YORK, April 24. —Refined j sugar today was advanced above 10 ! cents a nound -by Pennsylvania Refining, which quoted 10.25, the highest price since the present rise started. American, Warner and National went to 0.85. Robbed Man Blames “Mule.” Oiner Gillespie, 1653 Cruft St., told police today that his horse, wagon and SIOO had disappeared. Gillespie said John Jameson, a one-legged man, and himself stopped near 955 W. New York St., where they met four or five men who gave them some white mule whisky. When Gillespie awoke at midnight his horse, wagon, in obey and the strangers were gone. Hear Traction Petition Petition of the Union Traction Company of Indiana for authority to issue $160,000 of 7 per cent power equipment notes was heard today before the public service commission. John W. McCardle, chairman of the commission, met with representatives of

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Every child born In Indianapolis Is lucky. Its name Is written officii 1 for the first time by Miss Julia Cahlllatio, stenographer for the city board of health. For Miss Cahiijane writes the birth certificate f<r every child born In the city. Her job keeps hor busy six days a week, writing about forty-five certificates a day or at the rate of approximately 12.000 a year. Besides keeping a record of births, she finds time to assist In Issuing milk and restaurant licenses and

SHOT-SCARRED CAR IS FOUND Police Believe Auto Found He re Was Used in Robberies of Postoffice at Brooklyn and Stores at Nobiesviile and Westfield,

An automobile containing five bullet holes found today in an alley back of his home by William F. Wallace, 639 Harmon St., is believed to bo the car used by robbers who ransacked the store of Oliver Fisher at Nobiesviile, Monday night. The ‘CHILD’ PROVES TO BE DOG Police Find Crying Pup In Vacant Room of Old Workhouse. Police called to the abandoned Marlon County workhouse, TwentyFirst St., and Northwestern Ave.. early today on a report that a child was in a pit near by, found instead a little dog crying for freedom. The dog was found in an abandoned room of the workhouse near the pit. An unknown man notified police that he thought the cries were those of a child. EXPRESSMEN ASK RAISE File Petition for Ten-Ont Increase With Labor Board. By United Press CHICAGO, April 24.—The Order of Railroad Expressmen today filed a request with the United States railroad labor board for a pay Increase of ten cents an hour. , The wage advance would total $17,000.000 annually and would affect 70,000 men. Missionary Rally A rally of the Margaret F. Gaylord Missionary Society will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. at the Seventh Presbyterian Church. A report will bo made of the meeting recently held at Franklin, Ind. There will be several talks and special music.

‘Keep to the Right’ Is Hard Job for Everybody

The spotless white lines that greeted the pedestrian on the downtown streets last week are gradually wearing away, but traffic policemen at busy corners during the rush hours still lustily shout: “Keep to your right!” Evidently it is a difficult task to make all pedestrians walk the chalk. Yat most rf the naonfe are endea-

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answer questions of customers who call at the board of health. Oftentimes Miss Cahillane settles vital disputes, such as irate neigh--1,. • -s accusing each other of sweeping dirt in the other's back yard. "What kind of soap Is the best for giving my dog a bath?" a customer inquired of her one day. It took ;* lot of persuasion to make Miss Cahillane keep her Job .after that. Miss Cahillane lives at 207 N. Randolph St . and Is a graduate of St. Agnes Academy. She has worked for the board of health almost two years.

robbers are believed to be the men who visited the postoffice and attempted to rob tho bank at Brooklyn Friday. Russell Barker, a police officer at Noble.,vi!le, discovered two men carrying clothing from the Fisher store. He ordered them to hold up their hands. They replied by firing at him. He dodged behind a telephone pole and returned the fire. Five bullets lodged in the polo. Westfield Store Bobbed Deputy Sheriff Mallory of Hamilton County told police two men In an automobile resembling the one found in tho alley and the used at Nobiesviile robbed a general store near Westfield Monday night. The car found In the alley was stolen, just before the robbery at Brooklyn, from Dr. J. S. Stoor, of Brooklyn. The thieves obtained SIOO at tho Brooklyn postoffice, but failed to penetrate the bank safe. Men Disappear A store at Bedford also was robbed Friday night. Police believe this robbery was committed by the same men, either before or just after the Brooklyn robbery. The Bedford store Is owned by A. Strauss, 1558 Broadway. Ho said tho thieves took ninety-eight silk dresses, eighty-five pairs of silk bloomers, three dozen silk ties and three suitcases. Wallace said when he first saw the car in the alley two men were with it. When he approached, they left. Fire Damages Mtuicte "theater. By Times Special MUNCIE, ind., Ap/il 24.—Fire which started in vacant rooms above the Liberty motion picture theater today, caused damages to the building estimated at SB,OOO. The stage and part of the auditorium were damaged. The loss Is covered by insurance.

voring to help solve the problem of crossing the streets safely. “I ought to have two pair of eyes to watch them alj,” sic Officer Forrest W. Allison, who keeps the pedestrian to the right at Illinois and Washington Sts. “When I’m not looking they'll dart across the street any old way. But they'll tret caught soma

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President Defends Internationa! Tribunal and Pleads for Entrance of United States Stands Irrevocably Against League of Nations. By LAWRENCE MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YOlyjv. April 24.—President Harding today laid before the American people his case for participation by the United States in tTie international court of justice. Just participation, he emphasized, would be in harmony with Republican pledges and would not be a move toward entering the League of Nations.

The President left no doubt about I his attitude toward the league. “It \ Is not for us,” he said, and this Ad- I ministration has no intention of en ttring it, “by the side door, the back ; door, or the cellar door.” Challenge to Opponents President Harding made these statements in a speech at a luncheon of , the Associated Press. It was a vigor-; ous reply and a challenge to those Re- • publicans who demanded that the President drop the court plan or face i n split in the party. To them he said I that if that issue will split the party j it is time to find out what the party's I strength consists of. ! “I do not hold it a menace to the unity of any political party,” said the President. "It is not to be classed as a party question, but if any party, repeatedly advocating a world court, j is to be rended by the suggestion of an effort to perform in accordance ] with its pledges, it needs anew ap- ! praisal of its assets.” Mr. Harding did not mince words' in taking to task those Republicans j who, he said, shudder excessively and j “assume entanglement” in European affairs is inevitable if the United States joins the court. Hiis at Watson “Any entanglement,” he said, aiming his words direetjy at those Republican Senators, including Watson of Indiana, who have expressed fear of American embroilment in Europe’s political situation, “would first require assent of the Senate, and if by agy chance the Senate approved of any entanglement, the present Administration would not com plete the ratification. “If in spite of these statements, uttered with full deliberation, there are excessive and unfounded hopes on the one hand, or utterly unjustifiable apprehensions on the other, I know of no word fittingly to apply.” Haring rebuked his mistrust of Republican colleagues the President then served notice that the friends of--the League of Nations must not? expect his Administration to consider membership ir. that body. Text of the President's speech fob lows: One Political Question “Frankly, there is one political bug bore. When wc discussed the League of Nations and its rule of force, with its super-powers through a political council and assembly, 1 myself contended as a Senator for equal voting! (Continued on Page 2) WORM NIECE PERISH IN FLAKS Flames Sweep Up Stairway of Flome at Goshen, By Times Special GOSHEN. Ind., April 24 —-Mrs. William Delcamp, 41, t..,d her niece. Electa Burridge, 7, were burned to death when their home was destroyed by fire Monday night, and William Delcamp Is in a Goshen hospital today suffering from severe burns. The blaze started from the kitchen stove, and swept up the stairway, shutting off the only exit from the second floor where the family was asleep. Delcamp was rescued by his stepson, Dewey Horn, who with his -wife and two children were sleeping on the first floor. ‘HUE NEWSPAPER MAN WILL BE MARRIED HERE Wedding Will Take Place at Claypod at 10 a. m. Wednesday. By United Press TERRE HAUTE, April 24.—D.n M. Nixon, editor of the Terre Haute Spectator and owner of the Wabash Plain Dealer, Wabash, will be married to Miss Eugenia Hubbard of Terre Haute at 10 a. m., Wednesday in the pink room of the Claypool Hotel* Indianapolis. Until recently Miss Hubbard played with the Cleveland orchestra under the name of Eugenia De Courcey.

One colored man insisted on leaving the white boundary and running in front of several automobiles to reach the sidewalk. The officer cabled to ( the violator and made him wait at the curb. After waiting for three minutes the officer came over to him and said: "You can A> on now, but next time watch voJLsten.” >

Forecast FAIR tonight .and probably Wednesday. Not v much change, in temperature.

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MAYOR SORRY HE GAVE ANSWER 10 KU-KLUX CHARGES Shank Tells Cabinet That Fifteen Had Been Arrested Before. "I made a mistake by answering ' a paper that has been making complaints about bootleggers and baseball poolsellers in Indianapolis,” Mayor Shank declared today, addressing city department heads in their ; monthly cabinet meeting. "Twenty-seven men. investigators for the paper, paid $5 a day, were I sent out and about fifteen out of the sixtv-tliree have been arrested. Most of them have been arrested by the police before.” The Fiety Cross, a Ku-Klux Klan paper, charged several days ago that there were sixty-three places in Indianapolis where law was violated with knowledge of the mayor and police. Mayor Shank urged city officials to boost the proposed lake and boulevard system. He s> 1 that “all the x,ess men end every one that I have talked to are sure for it.” I “It will be the biggest thing that has ever been done for the city. The lake is not an idle dream as it was thought at first.” Councilman Lloyd D. Claycombe called attention to what he termed reckless disregard of traffic rules by employes driving city vehicles. John J. O'Brien, fire chief, said his men were careful. Taylor E. Gronlnger. corporation counsel, pointed out the hoard of safety had issued orders to city employes telling thefn they will be held responsible and will be arrested for traffic violations. Claycombe called attention to the * accident in which_a city ambulance struck an automobile at North and Delaware Sts., and which he said turned over and slid seventy feet. CIRCUS ANIMALS IN NEAR PANIC WHEN FIRE STARTS Wild Beasts Roar and Scream in Fear at Madison Square Carden. [ Tty United Press NEW YORK. April 24.—Fire in Madison Square Garden caused a near panic among animals of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey circus before it was brought under ! control today. Hundreds of wild beasts added to the excitement of the alarm by roaring or screaming in fear as the smoke poured out of the stockroom, to which the blaze was confined. Thousands of dollars worth of refreshments were destroyed. PAVING IS INVESTIGATED Commissioners Confer on Fixing Blame for Faulty Construction. County commissioners today held a conference with William Bosson, head of the Marion County Farm Bureau, and John C. Rukelshaus, county attorney, to discuss steps for fixing the blame for the faulty condition of the Keystone Avenue paving. Witnesses at a hearing held recently before the commissioners testified that the sub-grade was faulty, that heavy gr. vel trucks caused damage. and that specifications had been changed to allow gravel in place of sand in part cf the construction.

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