Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1923 — Page 1

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Clergyman, in Fireman’s Role, Studies Life From Engine Cab

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REV. P. E. DAVISON IN lIIS BORROWED OVERALLS, LOOKING OVER TRAIN OR DERS.

Kept up Four Arrested, One Convicted in Police Effort. Police today continued their cami pjgn against baseball pools and gaming’ devices. Ed Reeves, 50, proprietor of the Colonial poolrool. 242 M N. Illinois St., was charged with keeping a gaming house when police said they found twenty-four weekly baseball pool ticket books and three daily baseball pool ticket books. Bank clearing jjflfvkets also were confiscated. Charles Parrott, 42, proprietor of a poolroom at 4CB W. Thirtieth St.; Edw=erd A. Ryan. 38. of 371 W. Michigan Bt., and James Jackson, 24, colored, 441 N. Illinois St., were charged with selling baseball pool tickets. John W. Williams, 34, of 907 Ft. Wayne Ave., proprietor of a soft drink parlor at 228 Indiana Ave., was fined S4O and costs in city court on a charge of operating a gaming house. UNITED PRESS HAS NEW BUREAU MANAGER Fred Johnston Resigns to go With Commercial. Fred G. Johnston, Indiana manager of the United Press during the past four years, who has resigned to become managing editor of the Indianapolis Commercial, assumes his new duties Tuesday. Gerald P. Overton of Martinsville, Ind., succeeds Johnston. Overton is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has been employed by the United Press in the New York and Chicago offices and as manager of the Lansing. Mich., bureau. Gyro Club to Entertain "Ladies' Day," a semi-annual event of the Gyro Club will be observed by the organization at its luncheon Tuesday at the Lincoln. A special program is being arranged. & Go After Preacher Local detectives are on their way to Mansfield, Ohio, to take Rev. Harry Jones Collins, colored, into custody on a charge of wife and child desertion here. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 5010 a. m 49 7 a. m 4911 a. m 50 8 a. m 50 12 (noon) 66 # a. m... 49 1 p, m 57

High Type of Railroad Workers Is Stressed by Rev. F. E. Davison, Who Finds Sermon Subject on Trip.

By WALTER D. HICKMAN. FOURTEEN hours in the cab of a Big Four railroad engine hauling fifty-two cars of freight has taught one Indianapolis pastor a great truth. The lesson is—a pastor can learn much if he will rub elbows with members of his congregation while they are at work. In the Englewood Christian Church flock are many railroad employes. “Come over and see us at work,’' they invited the Rev. F. E. Davison, the pastor. The Rev. Davison borrowed a pair of overalls from Harry Carter, a switchman. Harry weighs about 250 pounds. The clergyman does not touch the 200 mark. There was plenty of room in ’em for Davison. Then he was ready to become a “student fireman.” L. W. Bell, a member of the Englewood Church, was the engineer on the 14t3-milo run to Kankakee, 111. George Wolfe was the fireman. “I helped put more than thirty tons of coal in that big engine,” the pastor said today. “Oh, no, I didn’t do it all. “My biggest thrill was catching train orders from the hooks. It is a wonderful experience to stand by the throtle of a great engine. We left here at 3 p. m. and reached Kankakee at 5 a. m. the next morning. “The one thing I learned is the high type of man who works on the railroads. Splendid courtesy was extended by every man. I found good in every man who works on the. railroad.” Sunday afternoon at Castle Hall the Rev. Davison will address locomotive engineers arid firemen and the ladies’ auxiliary. He will preach at Englewood Christian Church Sunday night on “Seeing Life From the Engine Cab.”

!RUSSIA DETERMINED TO REPUDIATE DEBTS • Trotski Says Government Owes Nobody—Obligations Liquidated. By United Press MOSCOW’, April 28.—The communist government is apparently determined to repudiate the debts that | Czarist Russia owes to other nations |of the world. Leon Trotski, minister ! of war, said: "Nobody owes us anything nor do | we owe anybody anything because i we liquidated our debts in October, I 1917.” BAMBINO BRANDS CASE ‘BLACKMAIL’ .Ruth May Turn 'Frame-up’ Over to Authorities, ! By United Frees BOSTON, Mass., April 28.—A1l evidence In the case of Dolores Dixon, young girl who has confessed her $50,000 suit against Babe Ruth was a "frame-up," is to be placed befor Disi trict Attorney Joab Ban ton, who will decide what steps to take. Decision to turn the affair over to Banton was reached at a midnight conference of the “home run king" and his attorney, Hyman Bushel In Boston. "W’e have enough to show that the whole affair was a, blackmailing scheme." Bushel said. "We know the parties behind the girl." BOY. 6, STRUCK BY AUTO Walter Shires Injured About Head, but Revives—Driver Exonerated. | Walter Shires. 6, of 736 S. Meridian St., was injured about the head to--5 day when struck by a car driven by j George E. Stewmrt, 148 N. Pennsyl- | vania, at Pennsylvania and Georgia I Sts. Witnesses say the boy ran directly in front of the car. Sergeant Wil- | kerson and police emergency squad ; said the boy revived rapidly on the way to the hospital. Police exonerated Stewart. Edwin Fraley Wins Prize. Edwin Fraley, 934 W. Twentyj Eighth St.. w T as awarded second prize j of $3 in the Indianapolis Humane SoI eiety poster prize contest, it was an--1 nounced today. The posters advertised "Be-Kind-to-Animals Weak.”

LEXINGTON FIRM TO HAVE RECEIVER Federal Judge Makes Announcement in Suit, A receiver in bankruptcy for the Lexington Motors Company of Con neraville, will be named by Judge Albert B. Anderson In Federal Court. This was announced today by Anderson after hearing evidence In a bankruptcy suit filed two weeks ago by creditors. Attorneys for the company admitted the concern was insolvent. U. S. MERCHANT FLEET IS UP FOR SALE If Buyers Do Not Appear by May 28 Government Will Run It. By United Frees WASHINGTON, April 28.—America’s merchant fleet was for sale today in the open market. If buyers do not appear by May 25 the fleet will be withdrawn from the counter and the government will run it. The shipping board asked for bids on the vessels. No statement was made as to the price which the government will consider. COUNTY AUDITGR DEAD Bedford Mourns lioes of William B. Detrmisten. By United Press BEDFORD, Ind*, April 28.—William B. Denniston. 72, Lawrence County auditor, died last night, following a two-day attack of pneumonia. Denniston was well known throughout the State. He is survived by one eon, Kent, of Lexington, Ky., two brothers and two sisters.

MARBLE SHARKS WIN CONTESTS

Those boys at Beech Grove can shoot marbles. They made it snappy in The Indianapolis Times elimination contests today with no boy missing very many shots. The final winner was John Hamilton, 14, of 76 N. Ninth Ave., a dark horse. John beat Lawrence Le Long, 60 S. Fifth Ave., whom the boys of the school had doped to win. Both were crack shots, but John had the better luck and when the games ended he had Just one more marble than Lawrence.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1923

OFFICIALS PONDER WHICH WOMAN IS ‘CLARA PHILLIPS’ ! Mrs. Jesse Carsen and 'Sister' Switch Names When Arrested, Police Say, I CopuHrjht, 19tS, by Vntted Prtgt) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 28. —Great confusion has arisen over which —if either—pf two women held | here is Clara Phillips, Loa Angeles i hammer murderess. The women gave the names of Mrs. Jesse Carsen and Mrs. R. M. Young, declare they traded names when they were arrested. The younger woman, who answers the description of Clara Phillips, registered at the hotel on her arrival as Mrs. Young, hut she is now posing as Mrs. Carsen. Some sort of legal trick which will result In the escape of the real Clara Phillips is feared. In an effort to straighten out the tangle the authorities informed each woman that she would be released If she could prove the other was Clara. Each replied that she had never seen Mrs. Phillips. Los Angeles detectives are expected here within two weeks to make a positive identification. The women are physically alike. The younger one, who now says she Is Mrs. Carsen, Is slender, about 22 years of age, and very stylish. Roth have finalI ]y determined on a policy of silence. Carsen, on the contrary, Is a free i talker. He denies that he Is a fugitive 1 from Justice In Los Angeles, and de- | dares that he is a representative of j capitalists and came hero to foster , several business enterprises. He also I says it Is ridiculous to suppose that j either Mrs. C.’arsen or Mrs. Young Is | Clara Phillips.

HARK IS FOR DECORATION DRIVE President Sends Check for Endowment Fund, President Harding today sent SBO to American Legion national headquarters here as his contribution to the permanent endowment fund the legion Is raising to provide for the annual decoration of graves of 82,000 war dead In Europe each Memorial day. With the check came the following letter; "The American Legion graves en- j dowment fund has my heartiest support. It is a national duty to assist the legion In raising thlff en- j dowment. The World War veterans j whose bodies still lie overseas died j with the hope that their gift to free- j dom—the gift of their lives —would j suffice to save their brothers end children In making like sacrifices. They died in the hope that their sacrifice might be contribution toward putting an end to war. “W’e owe to them not only this tribute of perpetuating their memory, but our Unswerving loyalty to their ideal that the war In which they fought might mark the end of all wars. Please accept the enclosed contribution on behalf of one citizen who cannot too greatly emphasize his obligation to the memory of our dead overseas, or his determination that they shall not have died In vain.” PAVING .CONTRACTS LET Hoard of Public Works Awards Bids for Improvements. Three new contracts for permanent street improvement were on records of the board of public works today. They are: Woodlawn Ave., State St. to Keystone Ave., paving with asphalt at $7.20 a lineal foot, total cost $35,484.25, Marion County Construction Company; Columbia Ave., TwentySecond to Thirtieth Sts., asphaltic concrete. $43,383.68. Indiana Asphalt Paving Company; first alley south of Merrill St., East St. to English Ave., two-course concrete. $2.29, $3,675.06, A. D. Bowen.

In the game at School No. 2 the winner was Ross Beaver, 10, of 115 W. Twenty-Third St. He attends School No. 32, and is helping to put Indianapolis In the position of having the youngest marble champion in the country. The runners-up In these games were William Fisher, 324 W. Twenty-First St., who attends School No. 17, and Earl Johnson, 248 N. Dorman St., who attends School No. 2. In the audience at these games was Joseph Stubbs, 8, who won at

WOMAN WINS TROPHY

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MRS. GEORGE M. BAILEY AND BRIG. GEN. DWTGHT AULTMAN.

Mrs. George M. Bailey, 1638 N. Meridian St., on "Sllkoola” a sorrel owned by Mrs. Henry F, Parr, won first place in the woman s saddle class against more than twenty entrants from the city and IT. Harrison, at the horse show Friday evening.

GOLF RUINED HOME, WIFE SAY'S IN SUIT Husband Got 'the Bug,' Played Now and Then, and Finally Spent All His Week-ends at It, She Charges,

Golf ruined her home charged Mrs. Mary Finley Reed.JJOOI Central Ave., in a suit filed for divoroo in Superior Court. Her husband, William Henry Reed, for a short time after thoir marriage

E. J. GAUSEPOHL HEADS MERCHANTS Association Board Names Officers for New Year, E. J. G&usepohl. of the E. J. Gausepohl Company was elected president of the Merchants Association at the annual meeting of the board of directors Friday, It was announced today. Others elected: George Vonnegut of the Vornegut Hardware Company, vice president; Paul H. Krauss of Paul H. Krauss & Cos., secretary, and F. D. Stalnaker, Indiana National Bank, treasurer. W. E. Balch continues aa manager. AIR RACE FLANS FORMED Winner of International Ballon Contest Confers Here. Plana for the national ballon race starting from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway July 4 are nearing completion, according to Blaine McGrath, director of promotion of the Chamber of Commerce. Ralph H. Upson, of Detroit, Mich., winner of the international race in France in 1913, spent Friday in Indiaapolis going over race details with Chamber of Commerce officials.

School No. 57 last Saturday. Ho was on the job to see what ho would be up against in the city tournament. He was accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Martha Stubbs. Each of the hoys who won today wants to take his mother with him to Atlantic City at the Times expense If he wins the city tournament. There are now five sectional champions. Seven more will be revealed in sectional game* on ■uooeadlxqr Saturday*. ,

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General Dwight Aultr.mn. commander at Ft. Harlson presented Mrs. Bailey with a silver loving cup expressing the sentiment of the audience that she had earned it by putting "Sllkoola'’ through a beautiful exhibition of walking, trotting, galloping auid backing

\ in 1913, treated her with respect and kindness, she says. In a short time Reed, an oil salesman, began to neglect her for the mashle and driver, devoting all his spare time and attention to golf, it Is jcharged. Her husband finally devoted each week-end. from Friday evening until Monday morning, to chasing the elusive golf ball, the wife charges, "leaving this defendant entirely alone with the baby." Even after they moved to Muncie ho w r ould come to Indianapolis each week end to pursue his sport, she says, and finally was demoted because of lack of attention to business. A hot dinner was demanded each Sunday evening about 8 p. m. aftor Reed would return from an all-day session on the jinks, the wife charges CONSIDER FAIR BUILDINGS State Board Will Formulate Plans for Additions Hem Plans for new barns and buildings at the State fairground will be considered by the executive committee of the State board of agriculture Tuesday. Bids will be advertised immedlaetly. Construction under a $1,000,000 bond issue will be completed by the ! time the fair opens this fall I. Newt Brown, secretary, said. NEW ANAESTHETIC FOUND, Ethylene May Supplant Ether In Sugeons' Practice. By United Press CHICAGO, April 28.—Use of ethylene, anew anaesthetlo containing properties of gas in 106 cases, hus proven it superior to ether and nitrous oxide, Dr. A. B. Luckhardt, its discoverer, declared before the Institute of Medicine.

The twelve secttenal winners will play in the city tournament and the city champion,—a boy or girl—will be sent to Atlantic City with his or her mother or father to play In the National Championship games. Besides, he or she will bo given a bicyclb. All expenses of the Atlantic City trip will be paid by the Indianapolis Times. The schedule for the games next Saturday will b* announced Monday.

Roswell 0, Johnson Receives Year and Six Months and $2,000 Fine — Vyilliam N, Dunn, Former Judge, Year and a Day—Three Are Granted New Trials, Heavy sentences and fines were given principals among the sixty defendants in the Gary booze conspiracy case by Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger in Federal Court today. New trials were granted Sheriff William Olds, Charles L. Clemens, justice of the peace, and Fred Seabright, former prosecutor in Clemen’s court. It was reported the Government will not further press these cases. The sentences: ROSWELL O. JOHNSON, mayor of Gary, one year and six months in prison and $2,000 fine. WILLIAM N. DUNN, who resigned as city judge when he was convicted, one year and one day in prison and SI,OOO fine. DWIGHT M. KINDER, Lake county prosecutor, one year and one day and SI,OOO fine. CLYDE HUNTER, former Lake county prosecutor, one year and one day and SI,OOO fine. BLAZ LUCAS, Gary attorney, one year and SIOO fine. LEWIS E. BARNES, former Lake county sheriff, one year and one day and SI,OOO fine.

IKE ALVAREZ, soft drink dealer, one day. MARY ALLEH, Chicago hotel, thirty days. MATT BUCONIVICH, soft drink dealer, four months and SIOO fine. JOHN BENNETT, treasurer Gary Republican city committee, four months and SIOO fine. MARTIN ‘BENNETT, soft drink dealer, sixty days. JOHN BILKOVIC, soft drink dealer, sixty days. LEWIS L. CAHN, proprietor of Senate Bar, four months and SIOO. HARRY COOLEY, sixty days. BUDE DAICH, soft drink dealer, sixty days. MARIE DE LEURE, proprietor of Broadway Cabaret, thirty days. DAN DELICTI, soft drink dealer, four months and SIOO. HARRY FAGIN, soft drink dealer, four months and SIOO. IRVING FRANCIS, soft drink dealer, four months and SI,OOO. JACOB N. FRIEDMAN, soft drink dealer, four, months and SIOO. JOHN J. IGNAC, detective, sixtydays. CHARLES F. MILLER, colored ten days. JENNIE MILLER. Wabash Inn. three months and SIOO. NICK MISCOVICH, soft drink dealer, four months and SIOO. JOHN-C. MULLEN, police sergeant, throe months. GEORG 1$ MUCOVICH, owner of Broadway Inn, four months and SIOO DMITER NJEGOVAN, soft drink dealer, four months and SIOO. NICK NARANCICH, one day. BRYAN S. NARCOVTCH, lawyer, six months and SSOO. MIKE OLEKSA, Ridge Road Garden, four months and SIOO. PETE PERSONS, constable, six months and SSOO. SOL PHILLIPS, sixty days. VALENTINE PISARSKI. soft drink dealer, four months and SIOO. NATHAN POTTS, sergeant of police, six months and SSOO. JOSEPH POWVINSKI, sixty days. GEORGE RAPAICH, four months end SIOO. GEORGE REDMAN, soft drink dealer, four months and SIOO. STOOAN RAPAICH, sixty days. (Continued on Page 2)

COURT ACTS TO CLEAR RECORDS Eleven Judgments Returned Against Bondsmen, Efforts by the prosecuting attorney’s office to clear the records of a mass of small fines that have been stayed and remain unpaid in city court, since 1919, and to collect on defaulted bonds, and replevin ball resulted in eleven judgments being given the State in Circuit Court today. Nineteen other cases were not reached. Two judgements of SI,OOO each were given against Sherman Davis, colored, professional bondsmen now serving a two-to-fourteen-year sentence In the State prison for jerjury. Davis was sentenced as a result of falsely swearing he owned property when he went surety for prisoners. Other judgments ranging from sl7 to SI,OOO were placed against John F. Walker, now superintendent of street cleaning; Harry Leo, Charles Brown, John B. Ray, Harry Miller, Albert Woods, G. Fultz, W. W. Bradburn, Jackson Toliver and W. W. Bradbum. WASHINGTON IN GAS ROW Company Complains That Rate of $1.65 Is Confiscatory. Complaint against the city of Washington, Ind., for present alleged confiscatory $1.65 gas rate and petition for readjustment was filed today with the public service commission by the Washington Water, Light and Power Company today. An investigation is requested. The East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Company petitioned the commission for authortm to Issue and sell $39,000 of Its sold bonds to PAT fru&ligavementa.

Forecast PROBABLY unsettled tonight, followed by generally fair weather and somewhat warmer.

TWO CENTS

OFFICERS DRAG FALL CREEK FORBODY OFWOMAN Fisherman Pulls Long Strand of Human Hair From Stream, Police today dragged with grappling hooks in Fall Creek near Thirty-Third St., to ascertain if the body of a woman lies there. They abandoned the search after several hours. John Staley, 520 N. Liberty St., told Bieyclernen Schley and Fisher that hook brought up a strand of woman’* hair while he was fishing Friday evening. The hair appeared to have been pulled out by the roots and was about twenty inches long, he said.

SIX BOYS ARE " FOUND GUILTY Contributing to Delinquency of Girls Alleged, Six boys ranging In age from 14 to 18 were found guilty today in juvenile court of contributing to delinquency of eight school girls living in the western part of the city. The girls are 13 to 15 years old. George Ferrel, 17, of 22 N. Bloomington St., and Carl Oliver, 17, of 19 N, Bloomington St., were fined $1 and costs and sentenced to three months on the Indiana State Farm. Edgar Harris, 18, of 127 Minkner St., was fined $1 and costs and given six months on the farm. The three smaller boys were given an Indeterminate sentence in White’s Correctional Institute at Wabash, Ind. Three other young men are under arrest on th<~- same charges, according to Patrolman E. M. Ratliff, who investigated the case. CONFISCATED CARS TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION County M ill Dispose of Care Seized for Transporting Booze. A Ford and Hudson touring car, seized by county officials for transportation of booze will be sold at public auction on May 4, at the Coffin-Dodson garage, 328 E. Market St. at 11 a. m. The cars have been ordered sold by the court. The Ford was found deserted on a country road loaded with booze. A $162 lien is held against the machine by Levinson Brothers. Joe Lewis, 1113 N. Capitol Ave., has never claimed the machine. The Hudson owned by Henry Coffield is a 1917 model. Officials eay both cars are in good mechanical shape. SHEIK THIEVES ACTIVE Young Men With “Toreador rants’* Alleged to Have Taken Car. Two automobile thieves wearing Valentino trousers today were the object of a police search. William Johnson, 550 Drover St., told detectives he parked his automobile on Capitol Ave., near Market St., Friday. He saw two young men who wore "toreador pants” trying to start a car next to his. W hen Johnson returnd his automobile was gone and , the car the two young men were trying to start was still eiierq. Three other automobiles were stolen Friday. The owners: Frank L. Meier, Rural Route H, Box 331; Bert Ryan, 4129 Byram Ava, and Abe Harris, 831 N. Noble St