Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1923 — Page 2

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U. S. SHIPS PROBABLY WILL STAY DRY DESPITE COURT RULING

Cost of Maintaining Floating Warehouses at Three-Mile Limit Too Great Next Congress Will Calk Leak in Volstead Law,

British and French Planning Reprisals Against Liquor Ban

By United Press LONDON. M a y I.—British steamship officials immediately moved for collective action against the decision of the United States Supreme Court barring liquor from foreign vessels within the American three-mile limit. Those in charge of the largest British lines were most indignant. The various officials held hasty telephone conferences this morning.

By United Press WASHINGTON, May I.—American ships on the high seas will probably continue dry in spite of the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday that outside the three-mile limit vessels are outside the Volstead law. This was the opinion of Government officials in practically all departments having to do with shipping of liquor.

CORONER BELIEVES RITTER TOOK OWN LIFE WITH POISON Mysterious Disappearance Is Cleared With Discovery of Body at Home, Investigation of circumstances surrounding the death of Russell Ritter. SO. found dead In his home at 2832 Cornell Ave., was continued today by Coroner Robinson. Ritter committed suicide, the coroner said, and the cause of death probably was poison. Letters In the room where Ritter’s body was found were dated March 24. However, neighbors saw Ritter on April 15. Ritter lived alone In the south half of a double house. Recently an agent had nailed a rental sign on the house. Neighbors noticed the gaslight burned in the dining-room many days, but no one investigated. Walter Hill and his sister-in-law. Frances Hill, 850 N. Keystone Ave., who wanted to rent the house, found the body late Monday. Police found a revolver fully loaded with no cartridges fired, lying on the kitchen cabinet near the body. One of the letters was addressed to Harry Ritter. 118 E. Market St., a son. and said: "Harry, give *p sonv l of those bonds to help bury me." Other letters were addressed to his sister in Richmond. Ind.; an insurance agent and to the rental agent. On one sheet of paper Ritter had written an editorial headed. “The Divorce Evil.”

DEFENSE GIVEN IN KIDNAPING CASE Defense of Clyde Dlsponett, Charles Locke and Fred Hodson, all of Beech Grove, accused of kidnaping Charles Bartlett, Acton, Ind., last Aug. 4, was expected to be concluded this afternoon with testimony of eighteen witnesses, In their trial in Criminal Court. The defendants, striking railroad men, are charged with forcing Bartlett, who worked for the railroad during the shopmen's strike, to accompany them to a woods at night. There he was forced to his knees and made tc take an oath that he would not return to the si.ops. hetestifieJ. Four witnesses testified ihey saw Locke at his home on the night in question. county HINGE ON COURT RULING Settlement of more than 2,400 claims against the county as a result of the embezzlement by Richard V. Sipe, former county clerk of $143,616.47 of county trust funds may be decided following arguments heard Monday in Circuit Court on a claim by Schuyler A. Haas, attorney, for payment of $5,000. Haas acted as attorney for the county in collecting SIOO,OOO on the surety bond provided for Sipe by the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. Judge H. O. Chamberlain ordered him to tile briefs as to why he should receive that amount. Pro rata payment of the claims may result, it was announced, as the Haas claim was argued at a hearing brought by the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company to get a court order that will enable County Clerk Albert H. Losche to divide the surety. WHOLESALERS ASKED TO AID IN TAX COLLECTION Charles C. Benjamin, State director of gasoline tax collection, declared that he will reduce the cost of enforcing the law to a minimum if the wholesaler will cooperate with the State, at the final session of the annual convention of the Allied Motor Commerce at the ClaypooL It is his plan to have the wholesaler collect the tax of 2 cents a gallon and turn it over to the State, thus eliminating the necessity of providing a corps of collectors to call upon and check the books of the dealers. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the gasoline tax and urging economy in its enforcement. The State highway commission was congratulated on its. plans for permanent highway development.

By United Press PARIS, May 1. —Decisions of the United States Supreme Court that Volstead act bans liquor from foreign vessels within the threemile limit, is likely to result In serious reprisals against American ships in French ports. The government could hold American ships for long days in port on technlcalties which may arise from the ruling. Definite action along this line Is being discussed, it was learned.

Although the court theoretically opened the way to making the Atlantic Ocean a gTeat “booze way,” the practical difficulties confronting American ship owners make it extremely unlikely, officials said, that apy great number of American vessels will be wet when they get beyond the line. Two reasons were advanced to support this view: 1. “Too much trouble” In maintaining the suggested floating warehouses on the fringe of the three-mile limit, which would be essential to stock bars on outgoing ships and to receive liquor supplies from In-bound ves sets. 2. The almost certain action of the next Congress in passing a law caulking the leak in the Volstead law which permitted the Supreme Court to make Its ruling. Congress Is believed certain to make all American ships everywhere bone-dry. Manifold difficulties In the way of maintenance of floating warehouses were pointed out today. These In dude the obvious expense of maintaining such "checking stations," including personnel and defense measures against pirates and the little known cost of stopping gigantic liners on the high seas. Experienced sea men place the cost of such stops at thousands of dollars. RIFT APPEARS OVER RULING Lasker Pleads for Delay as Harding and Cabinet Meets. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, May I—A rift in the Administration over the question of liquor for American ships threatened today as President Harding and the Cabinet met to discuss Govern ment policy in the light of the Supreme Court’s decision that Ameri fan vessels can carry liquor outside the three-mile limit. Chairman Lasker of the shipping hoard urged Mr. Harding not to de clde at once the question of keeping shipping board vessels dry. Lasker Indicated that Mr. Harding had nothing to say about it. and that If the shipping board itself decided to serve liquor on the ships, the President would not have the right to interfere.

VETERAN ENGINEER WILL BE LAID TO REST HERE William I. Pittman Succumbs After Paralytic * Stroke. William I. Pittman, 71, who died Monday, following a paralytic stroke, will be buried Wednesday, 2:30 p. m. at Crown Hill. Mr. Pittman had been an invalid for twenty years. He was for many years an engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He Is survived by the widow, Mrs. Jennie Pittman; a brother, Frank 11. Pittman; one sister, Mrs. Eugene Larger, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Pittman, 93, all of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, 2 p. m. at William Vehling’s chapel, 948 E. Washington St. I. U. PROF. IS HONORED BY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., May I.—Dr. C. H. Eigemann, head of the zoology department at Indiana University, has been elected to membership in tfie National Academy of Sciences. He is the only elected - member in the State of Indiana. Election In the National Academy of Sciences is the mostly highly prized honor that can come to an American scientist.

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LOCAL FACTORY WORKERS RAISE HOSPITAL FUNDS Tablets to Be Placed in Riley • Memorial to Commemorate Subscriptions, Employes of a number of factories in Indianapolis are organizing to make group subscriptions to the Riley Hospital for Children, according to word received at fund headquarters today, the second day of the Marion County campaign Employes of the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company have pledge! $2,500 and employes of the Cent; 1 Supply Company have pledged $1,200 to the fund. Memorial tablets will he placed in the hospitai to perpetuate group subscriptions. An average of $lO each will be raised by the 1 400 employes of the G. & ,T Tire Company. Robbins Body Corporation. Ell Lilly & Cos.. Sehloss Bros . H. P. Wasson & Cos. and others are planning group donations. New cash subscriptions and four year pledges announced today total $43,260.62. Hnion men are requested to write “organized labor” at the top of thotr subscription blanks so their pladges will be credited to a special fund be ing raised through the Indiana State Federation of Labor. MRS. C. D. HAMLIN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Funeral Services Will Be Held Thursday. Dr. J Ambrose Dunkle, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, will conduct private funeral services Thursday morning for Mrs. C. D. Hamlin, 38, of 304,S Broadway, who died Monday night at her home after a nillness of four months. Friends may call at the residence Wednesday afternoon. Burial will be In Crown Hill. Mrs. Hamlin came here from Ohillicothe, Ohio, where she was born. Her husband. C. D. Hamlin, has been engaged in the insurance business in the city for about twelve years. She Is survived by her husband; three children, Robert, Jean and Julia Ann; her father. John Hoffman; a brother, Edgar Hoffman; a sister, Mir-s Helen Hoffman, all of Chlllicothe, Ohio, and a sister, Mrs. Walter Dyer of St. Louis. CIVIC BODY TO ELECT Mapleton Association Will Have New Officers. Officers will be elected at the annual meeting of the Mapleton Civic Association at Fortieth St. and Capitol Ave. this evening. Reports of committees and announcement of plans for t.he coming year will be given. President Harry E. Calland hopes the full membership will attend.

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LEFT TO RIGHT. A ROVE. G 1 .A DVS VAN LEAR, JEANETTE LITTLE. LAWRENCE FLY. BELOW. GUY THRAMS. Here are members of the string quartet. Shortridge High School’s newest musical organization. The quartet has been asked to play at chapel exercises several times, receiving an ovation at each per forma nee. MAN IS ARRESTED ON THEFT CHARGE B: other Also Held In Connection With Robbery, Jesse Brown, 38. of 318 E. North St., was charge! with grand larceny and carrying concealed weapons today when police allege he attempted to pawn a valuable tie pin taken from the home of Mrs. C. A. Madison, where he roomed. Ross Brown, 29, his brother, who raid he lived In Gosport, was arrested on a vagrancy charge. Mrs. Madison reported the theft of two tie pins and two rings, all valued at $230, from her home. ORR BECOMES EXAMINER Deputy Succeeds Eschbach in State Job. Tawrence F. Orr, deputy examiner of the State board of accounts for several years, today became chief examiner of the board, following re or nt appointment by Governor Me Cray. Orr succeeds Jesse E. Esch bach, whose term expired yesterday. Eschbach has accepted an executive position with the Lincoln Trust Com pany of Ft. sV'ayne.

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I, SOLDIERS LEAVE ON MARCH FOR CAMP KNOX Troops Depart From Ft, Harrison on Hike to Last Ten Days, Wartime scenes were enacted at Ft. Harrison today as three units comprising approximately 1.1 no offl cars and enlisted men, started for Camp Knox, Ky. Infantry left the post on foot shortly after 6 a m . under command of Col. J. T Dean; the artillery, led hv Col Frank K Hopkins, left at S o'clock. IN TERRIBLE PAIN, WEAK AND THIN South Carolinian “Was Getting Worse and Worse,” But Now Is Well and Working, After Taking Black-Draught. Great Falls, S C —The relief of a very p&lhf.tl stomach disorder Is described in tne following statement by Mr W. A Orr, of this place: "When I would eat.,” said Mr Orr. “my stom ach would ache, and such a terrible burning inside! I got so thin. My skin was sallow I was so weak I could not do my work. T had a breaking-out and I simply was getting worse and worse. “Someone asked me why I didn't use Black-Draught. I thought I could at least give it a trial After the first dose or two I was so weak 1 rested for a few days, then began taking,, it regularly. I felt like I wanted to eat. 1 had suffered so much I was almost afraid, but I began I noticed first that the burning quit, then th- pain After a few weeks I wasn't afraid to eat and my skin got. clearer T felt much better. I grew stronger and have been better ever since, and soon was able to go back to work and have worked ever since, “My daughter. Viola, would hurry home to meals and hurry eating until she began having Indigestion. She got so thin and weak until T was afraid she was going to get down In bed. .She was away from work half her time. Her skin was yellow and we were uneasy about her. We decided she should try Black-Draught. too. She took It. for a few weeks, regu larly, and it acted on the liver, her skin cleared up, she began to eat. she gained until she looks just fine and her skin Is clear and she weighs more than she ever has.” Sold everywhere; 25 cents. —Advertisement.

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ar:d the tank corps, commanded by Lieut. E. L. Stewart, entrained later. A selected few of the men who made high averages on the rifle range were rewarded by riding through to Camp Knox in army trucks They ipassed through downtown Indianapolis streets before 7 a. m. Infantry units circled the city by taking the Gallagher Rd. off the Pendleton pike. Officers expected to camp about flf teen miles somh of the city tonight. A site south of Franklin will be reached for a camp Wednesday night. The trip will be made in about ten days. The total distance of the march is approximately 150 miles. The units go to Camp Knox to serve through the summer in connection with the civilian military training camp, which is to be the largest in the country.

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TWO FIRES CAUSED OF NOT GREASE Hot grease caused two downtown fire runs today. A fire started in an elevator shaft jln the Hibben-Hollweg building. Mej ridian and Georgia Sts., and ran up the elevator track. Emploves extinguished the blaze. A few minutes later a call was received from the Columbia Club Firefound grease blazing in the kitchen. Nr, damage was done.

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1923

ATTEMPT TO FREE, 'CLARA PHILLIPS’ IS FRUSTRATED Romantic Young Troubadores Offer Aid in Escape at Honduras. (Copyright. 1923. by United Press.) TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras, May 1. —An attempt to free fron jail th woman held here as Clara Phillips, Los Angeles hammer murderes. has been discovered by the police. A group of romantic young men troube .lores offered their assistance to her i 1 the attempt, communicating with her by notes sent to the jail in Oranges. The woman, heid under the name of Mrs. Jesse Carson, offered money to hei- guards and intended to da3h from the prison gates at 2 o’clock in the morning. The full plan was discovered by the director of police. He. however, does not attach a great amount of importance to the scheme, believing it only the machionations of “movie mad” film lovers perpetrated In a spirit of adventure and A careful watch is being on the three prisoners. Mrs. Carson, Mrs. R. M. Young “of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,” and Jesse Carson, who say he is a promoter for American capitalists Fugitive to Be Returned Fred A. Howard, parole officer from a boys' school at St. Charles, 111., arrived in Indianapolis today to take Ralph Rowan. 16, fugitive from the school, back. Rowan was taken in custody by police here.